Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Aircraft
Passengers noticed flames shooting out of the [aircraft's left] engine followed by a lot of smoke. Passengers noticed a lot of smoke on [the aircraft's right] coming out of the engine. We reported it to the Captain and Maintenance came out and checked out the aircraft. We had fume issues with the same aircraft the day before.
On taxiing during the safety demo playing; [I] was alerted by a passenger on [the] aircraft's left advising that there was smoke and fire coming out of the engine. Passengers [on the aircraft's] right then advised smoke coming out of engine. Aircraft left engine fire was encompassing the windows along with smoke. Same aircraft as the day before.
A330 flight attendants reported passengers informed crew of flames shooting out of engine exhaust on start. Cabin fumes became prevalent in passenger cabin.