Watch: Jumbo Jet Loses Engine in Mid-Air Explosion with 241 Aboard, Parts Rain on Neighborhood Below
A United Airlines Boeing 777 exploded in the sky over Denver
One engine on a Boeing 777 broke right after the plane’s takeoff from Denver International Airport. It was a flight to Honolulu. The plane landed in Denver, but parts of the engine fell on communities in the north of the city. According to Fox News reports, the plane had 10 crew members and 231 passengers.
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“The plane started shaking violently, and we lost altitude and we started going down,” said passenger David Delucia, according to The Associated Press. “When it initially happened, I thought we were done. I thought we were going down.”
Passengers on United 328 describe a harrowing experience as they looked out windows and saw an engine on fire.
"My daughter was sitting on the window. I was like, don’t look. Let’s close it up. Let’s just pray. So that’s what we did. We held hands and said some prayers" #9News pic.twitter.com/FfNj41SdfS
— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) February 21, 2021
Delucia and his wife put their wallets with their driver’s licenses in their pockets. “In case we did go down, we could be ID’d.”
The pilot was able to land the plane safely. Passengers were more than happy. I mean, these purple almost avoided a plane crash.
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This is the moment United flight 328 landed in DIA
Passengers cheer.
You can see damage to right engine.
Video: Troy Lewis #9news pic.twitter.com/wyYqlEEJgZ
— Chris Vanderveen (@chrisvanderveen) February 20, 2021
Tyler Thal witnessed the incident from the ground. It was terrible.
“While I was looking at it, I saw an explosion and then the cloud of smoke and some debris falling from it. It was just like a speck in the sky, and as I’m watching that, I’m telling my family what I just saw and then we heard the explosion,” he told the AP. “The plane just kind of continued on, and we didn’t see it after that.”
I saw an explosion on this low flying aircraft over @broomfield about 45 minutes ago. Debris fell from the plane and left a black cloud of smoke. The plane continued on. Any new on if this plane landed safely? @BroomfieldPD @NMFirePIO @9NEWS @KyleClark pic.twitter.com/paMCdiuWMN
— Tyler Thal (@tgthal) February 20, 2021
Kirby Klements felt great although a piece of debris hit his truck.
“If it had been 10 feet different, it would have landed right on top of the house,” he said. “And if anyone had been in the truck, they would have been dead.”
Longtime Broomfield residents had never seen the sights they witnessed Saturday after airplane debris landed in their lawns and damaged their properties. https://t.co/nRpUBTl45c
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) February 21, 2021
Chunks of debris landed in Broomfield. That’s about 20 miles north of downtown Denver as reported by KUSA-TV.
No one got hurt and there’s an investigation into the case.
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Source: The Western Journal
