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Smoke billows out from a plane that caught fire at McCarren global Airport.

The US’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the casing around a key component of the engine had been found to have “multiple” breaches.

The plane’s left engine – a General Electric GE90-85B – its fuselage and wing were “substantially damaged” by the fire, according to the NTSB.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor reported that the plane’s left engine had caught fire.

On Thursday the chief executive of Gatwick, Stewart Wingate, warned that approval for Heathrow would be a “retrograde step” and “politically undeliverable” because of bitter opposition from senior ministers with constituencies under the flight path....