“I grabbed my wife’s hand and said, ‘We’re done.'”ĭelucia said his stepdaughter tweeted the online video, which was shot by another passenger. “I can honestly say I thought we were going to die at one point - because we started dropping altitude right after the explosion,” passenger David Delucia told The Denver Post.
There were no injuries on the plane or on the ground, authorities said. An American Airlines Boeing 777 passenger plane is seen over the Courtyard by Marriott London Heathrow Airport hotel taking off from London Heathrow Airport in west London on February 14, 2021. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFPĪ United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure Saturday shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping massive debris on a residential area before a safe emergency landing, officials said.Ī video shot from inside the aircraft - which had 231 passengers and 10 crew onboard - showed the right engine ablaze and wobbling on the wing of the Boeing 777-200, it’s cover entirely missing as the aircraft flew over a barren landscape.
