The airline had 24 in operation and 28 in storage during the pandemic before voluntarily grounding them late Sunday. United passengers will be accommodated on other flights. carrier with planes with the affected engines. The Federal Aviation Administration said there are 128 older Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines. View Gallery: Broomfield, Colorado gets United Airlines plane debris after engine problem United only US airline with Boeing 777s powered by engine that failed Saturday “When it initially happened, I thought we were done. “The plane started shaking violently, and we lost altitude, and we started going down,” David Delucia, who was sitting directly across the aisle from the side with the failed engine, told The Associated Press.

The piece landed in a yard in Broomfield, Colorado.īoeing 777 grounding explained visually: Pratt and Whitney engine failure involved in two incidents on same day

Video taken from inside the plane and posted to social media shows the right engine on fire and part of the engine cover missing. The plane returned to Denver safely, and there were no injuries reported among the 231 passengers and 10 crew members or Colorado residents, but images from the incident and passenger reports have shaken travelers and left them with countless questions about one of the airline industry's go-to wide-body jets for Europe and Hawaii flights. Watch Video: Passenger on flight: 'I thought it was a bomb'Īn engine failure on a United Airlines flight from Colorado to Hawaii that rained aircraft parts over suburban Denver on Saturday has thrust the Boeing 777, aircraft engine types and fan blades into the spotlight.

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