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The wreckage of a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 crashed in the Denver suburbs on Saturday when the plane had to return to the airport for an emergency landing after one of its engines failed.
The United Airlines plane had taken off from Denver at 8:05 p.m. for Honolulu. There were 241 people on board, including ten crew members.
Shortly after takeoff, one of the engines caught fire.
According to authorities, cited by the Associated Press (AP) news agency, the Boeing 777-200 managed to land safely at Denver International Airport and no one on board or on the ground was injured.
Dozens of debris were strewn across the Broomfield neighborhood, located about 40 miles north of Denver. Large debris fell next to a house.
Tyler Thal, a resident of this area, told the AP that when he was walking with his family he noticed that a large commercial plane was flying strangely low and that he started shooting with his cell phone.
“As I was looking at the plane, I saw an explosion and then a cloud of smoke and some debris falling. The plane kept going and we didn’t see it after that,” he said.
The United Airlines plane had taken off from Denver at 8:05 p.m. for Honolulu. He landed again in Denver about 30 minutes later.
Also on Saturday, a cargo plane lost part of one of the engines, which exploded during take-off from Maastricht Aachen airport. The debris of the engine struck a car parked in a garage in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
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