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TORONTO — The Transportation Safety Board’s investigation into a runway crash between two planes at Pearson International Airport will examine whether a major airline followed its evacuation protocols.

Officials say an empty Sunwing plane struck a WestJet aircraft — inbound from Cancun, Mexico, with 168 passengers and six crew members — while both planes were on the tarmac.

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The tail section of the Sunwing aircraft burst into flames, but fortunately nobody was hurt.

A spokeswoman for WestJet says everybody was safely evacuated from the plane via emergency slides and nobody on board was injured.

However, Ali Alagheband says chaos erupted when the plane was struck and a fire started outside.

The Toronto engineer says he was in a seat opposite the part of the plane that was struck, and he wasn’t able to hear instructions from flight crew or the pilot over the commotion.

Alagheband says he heard conflicting instructions from people around him about whether to stand up and start making his way to the exits or sit back down in his seat.

In a video recorded from aboard the WestJet plane and posted on Instagram, flames can be seen on the smoking Sunwing plane’s tail section as frightened passengers scream and a member of the flight crew urges everyone to “remain seated.”

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Witnesses also took to Twitter to share pictures of firefighters around the tail section of the damaged plane.