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The wreckage of a United Airlines plane fell in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, during an emergency landing on Saturday (20), after one of its engines failed and parts of the engine just hit a house.
The plane landed safely and no one on board or on the ground was injured, authorities said.
Remains of a United Airlines plane that crashed in a Denver suburb on Saturday (20) – Photo: Broomfield Police Department via AP
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the Boeing 777-200 returned to Denver International Airport after experiencing a right engine failure shortly after takeoff. Flight 328 was flying from Denver to Honolulu when the incident occurred, the agency said.
United said in a statement there were 231 passengers and 10 crew on board. The airline did not elaborate.
Remains of a United Airlines plane that crashed in a Denver suburb on Saturday (20) – Photo: Broomfield Police Department via AP
The Broomfield Police Department posted photos on Twitter that showed large circular pieces of debris leaning against a suburban home about 25 miles north of Denver. The police ask all the injured to come forward.
Tyler Thal, who lives in the area, told the Associated Press that he was walking with his family when he noticed a large commercial plane flying strangely low and took his phone to film it.
Remains of a United Airlines plane that crashed in a Denver suburb on Saturday (20) – Photo: Broomfield Police Department via AP
As I was looking at it, I saw an explosion and then a cloud of smoke and some debris falling from it. It was like a stain in the sky and, as I look, I tell my family what I just saw and then we hear the explosion, ”he said in a telephone interview. “The plane kept running and we didn’t see it after that.”
Thal was relieved to learn later that the plane had made a safe landing.
Remains of a United Airlines plane that crashed in a Denver suburb on Saturday (20) – Photo: Broomfield Police Department via AP
A video posted on Twitter shows the engine totally engulfed in flames as the plane flew (see below).
Aviation security experts said the plane appeared to have suffered a catastrophic and uncontrolled engine failure. Such an event is extremely rare and occurs when huge spinning discs within the engine fail and break the armored casing around the engine, designed to contain the damage, said John Cox, an aviation security expert and retired airplane pilot who operates a consulting firm. aviation security system called Security Operating Systems.
Remains of a United Airlines plane that crashed in a Denver suburb on Saturday (20) – Photo: AP Photo / David Zalubowski
“This unbalanced disk has a lot of force and is spinning at several thousand revolutions per minute … and when you have that much centrifugal force, it needs to go somewhere,” he said in a telephone interview.
Pilots practice handling these types of events frequently and immediately turn off anything flammable in the engine, including fuel and hydraulic fluid, using a single button, Cox said.
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