A rain of debris from a United Airlines plane, forced to turn around after the fire in its right engine, fell on Saturday in a residential area of Denver in the United States.
Passengers on United Airlines flight UA328 to Honolulu, Hawaii were scared of their lives shortly after takeoff from the airport in Denver, Colo., When the right engine suddenly burst into flames.
The plane managed to turn around and land safely in Denver and the incident did not cause any injuries, assured the company, adding that the passengers had however been taken care of by rescue teams.
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The aircraft, a Boeing 777-220,
"made a U-turn toward Denver International Airport where it landed safely after suffering a failure of its right engine just after take-off,"
the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Images taken inside the plane and posted on social media show the plane's right engine engulfed in flames.
“I can honestly say I thought I was going to die, because we started losing altitude right after the explosion,
” passenger David Delucia told The Denver Post.
“I grabbed my wife's hand and told her we're done
,” he added.
Falling debris
The incident also caused a drop of debris of varying magnitude along the route taken by the aircraft when it turned back to Denver.
A piece of the plane in the shape of a circle, with a diameter equivalent to a front door, was stuck in the middle of a garden in Broomfield, a suburb of Denver (Colorado).
A piece of the plane that fell in a garden in suburban Denver.
BROOMFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT / AFP
Kirby Clements, owner of the garden where this imposing debris from the United Airlines plane landed, told CNN of a
"somewhat overwhelming" experience.
"It landed directly on the roof of my truck before falling next to it,"
he said, adding that another equally large debris had caused a hole more than 1.5m in diameter in the roof. from a neighbor.
