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DHL cargo plane catches fire during landing at LAX

The tail fin of a DHL Boeing 777-200LRMF cargo aircraft is pictured on July 22, 2026, in Farnborough, England. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

(WASHINGTON) — A DHL cargo plane lit up the runway during a landing at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday night as its tires caught on fire.

The Boeing 737, which was operated by DHL on behalf of Kalitta Charters II, made its landing around 11 p.m. PT when the brakes malfunctioned, causing them to overheat and blow four tires, DHL and the Federal Aviation Administration said in statements Thursday.

Surveillance video caught the flames flying from the bottom of the jet as it sped through the runway.

The runway was temporarily closed, and emergency crews rushed to put out the fire.

DHL said no one aboard the jet, which took off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, was injured.

The FAA said it will be investigating the incident. The jet was still on the runway and being inspected Thursday morning.

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Sculpture collective builds giant origami crane for Burning Man

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Click here for updates on this story    ST. FRANCIS, Wisconsin (WTMJ) -- You’ve probably never seen a 15-foot-tall metal origami crane. Well, one is sitting in a St. Francis parking lot. It was made by a group of Milwaukee-area artists, and it’s going to the iconic festival, Burning Man.“We can make stuff here in this space, and people can appreciate it, but there’s something magic that happens when you’re just kind of standing around doing a thing, changing a battery, and you hear somebody go, 'That is so cool.' I love that," Sarah Davitt, a member of Steel Tiger Lillies, the group that made the sculpture, said.Steel Tiger Lillies is an inclusive art organization originally formed to teach women trades like welding and heavy fabrication. Now, it’s open to everyone.“Allowed people to feel comfortable building stuff that they normally would say, 'You should let your husband do that,'" Davitt said.The origami crane has a kaleidoscopic and mosaic rainbow aesthetic. Burners, people who attend Burning Man, will be able to enter it and follow instructions to make their own smaller origami cranes.“That we will actually hang in the piece, so that you will have origami cranes kind of taking and changing the environment every day. And later, those will be burned in one of the many fires that are available at Burning Man," Davitt said.The design was inspired by the novel 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes', which is about a girl diagnosed with leukemia from atomic bomb radiation after World War II.“It is a really big wish for peace," Davitt said.It's also a really big moment for the artists who spent the last year creating this 15-by-27-foot sculpture. It has the potential to be seen by tens of thousands of people at Burning Man.“It’s just larger than life, and that is what Burning Man is, making dreams come true," Sarah Spottswoods, another member of the Steel Tiger Lillies, said.The group has been building the sculpture since Nov. 2025. They were putting on the final pieces on Aug. 21, the day before they began transporting it to Nevada.Steel Tiger Lillies has a fundraiser to help support travel and transportation costs.Please note: This story was provided to CNN Wire by an affiliate and does not contain original CNN reporting. This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.
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