The terrifying moment a United Airlines plane makes an emergency landing with an engine on fire

United Airlines plane to Honolulu suffered on Saturday engine failure shortly after takeoff from Denver International Airport in the United States and threw debris as it returned to the runway safely, said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Police in Broomfield, Colo., Showed photos of the remains of the Boeing 777-200, but no injuries or serious damage were reported.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) would investigate the United Flight 328 incident, in which 231 passengers and 10 crew members were traveling.

“An engine from United Flight 328 caught fire. My parents were on this flight. In short, everyone is fine! “, warned a young American from her Twitter account with a video showing that the turbine on the right side of the plane was on the verge of total destruction when the pilots were able to return to Denver for the emergency landing.

Photos released by the Broomfield Police Department Show Large pieces of the plane, including the engine crankcase, strewn over an open field and in front of a house in the suburbs about 30 miles north of Denver.

“If you find any debris, PLEASE do not touch or move it. The NTSB wants all remains to remain at the scene for investigation, ”Broomfield Police said on their Twitter account, asking anyone injured to come forward.

Another video on social media showed a cloud of black smoke that left the plane in the sky. “Something exploded,” one man says on a movie.

Tyler Thal, who lives in the area, told the news agency AP that he was walking with his family when saw a big commercial jet fly at an unusual low and took out his phone to save the image.

“Looking at him, I saw an explosion, then a cloud of smoke and debris fall from it. It was like a stain in the sky, then we heard the explosion, ”he said in a telephone interview. “The plane continued and we didn’t see it again,” he said. Thal was relieved to learn later that the plane had landed safely.

With information from AP and Reuters

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