Passengers aboard United Airlines flight 328 are recalling the scary moment when the Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport after an engine failed and caught fire moments after takeoff.
“I was sitting in the middle of the plane and there was a big explosion,” said Mike Vena, who was traveling on Saturday from Baltimore to Hawaii with his wife to CBS Denver.
“The plane started to shake and stayed there for about half an hour until it landed,” he said.
Passengers aboard United Airlines flight 328 are recalling the scary moment when the Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport. (Istock).
The United Airlines flight from Denver to Honolulu on Saturday was traveling with 231 passengers and 10 crew. Authorities said no one on board was injured. Still, passengers say they were “terrified” the moment they heard the engine fail.
Ed and Barbara Underwood, from Kailua, Hawaii, told KHON2 that they were scared and even sent a text message to their children, as they were not sure if they would survive the flight.
“I just said that the plane’s engine blew up, that I don’t know what’s going to happen and that we love them. That’s all you can say,” Barbara told KHON2.
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“It was really scary,” she said, adding that the pilot calmly announced that he would make a landing. “It was the longest 20 minutes coming back to Denver,” she told KHON2.
The flight landed back at Denver International Airport at 1:30 pm on Saturday.
The Federal Aviation Administration later confirmed that the plane landed safely in Denver after “a failure of the right engine after takeoff”.
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“There are reports of debris landing along the plane’s flight path. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” said the FAA.