United Airlines Waste: The video shows the moments when the parts of the plane fall on the street in Denver, Colorado

BROOMFIELD, Colorado – There is a new video of debris falling on the street in Colorado from the United Airlines plane that was forced to make an emergency landing due to an engine failure on Saturday.

A Nest camera in a suburb of Denver caught the metal object hitting the ground with such force that it jumped a few feet into the air.

Fortunately, no one was injured by the wreckage.

Meanwhile, the passengers on the flight reported their reactions when the incident happened.

David Delucia had sat back in his plane seat and was beginning to relax on his way to a long-awaited vacation, when a huge explosion and a flash of light interrupted an ad in flight and put him in survival mode.

The Boeing 777-200, which headed from Denver to Honolulu on Saturday with 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, suffered a catastrophic damage to its right engine and flames erupted under the wing as the plane began to lose altitude.

As Delucia and his wife prepared for the worst, people in this suburb of Denver reacted in horror, as huge chunks of engine casing and fiberglass rained down on a sports field and on the streets and lawns, missing only one house and crushing a truck. The explosion, visible from the ground, left a trail of black smoke in the sky, and small pieces of insulation filled the air like ashes.

The plane landed safely at Denver International Airport and no one on board or on the ground was injured, authorities said. But both those in the air and those on the ground were deeply shaken.

“When it first happened, I thought I was done. I thought we were going down,” said Delucia, who stuffed her wallet into her pocket so she could be easily identified if the plane went down. “The pilot did an amazing job. It was pretty annoying.”

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the plane suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.

The video posted on Twitter showed that the engine was completely engulfed in flames while the plane flew through the air. The frozen frames from various videos made by a passenger sitting lightly in front of the engine and posted on Twitter seemed to show a broken fan blade in the engine.

The National Transport Safety Council is investigating. Authorities did not disclose any details about what could have caused the failure.

United said in a separate statement that most passengers on United Flight 328 were relocated on a new flight to Hawaii, but some chose to stay in a hotel overnight.

The Broomfield Police Department posted on Twitter photos showing large, circular pieces of debris that appeared to be the engine casing supported by a suburban home about 40 miles northwest of Denver. Police asked anyone injured on the ground to report.

Tyler Thal, who lives in the area, told The Associated Press that he went for a walk with his family when he noticed a large commercial plane flying unusually from below and took out his phone to film it.

“While I was looking at him, I saw an explosion and then a cloud of smoke and some debris falling from it. It was just like a stain in the sky, and as I look at it, I tell my family what I just saw and then heard the explosion, “he said in a telephone interview.” The plane went on and on. I’ve seen him before. “

Kirby Klements was inside with his wife when they heard a huge sound, he said. A few seconds later, the couple saw a massive piece of debris flying past their window and into the bed of Klements’ truck, smashing the cab and pushing the vehicle into the dirt.

He estimated the circular lining of the engine at a diameter of 4.5 meters. Fine pieces of fiberglass insulation used in the plane’s engine fell from the sky “like ash” for about 10 minutes, he said, and several large pieces of insulation landed in his yard.

“If it had been 10 feet different, it would have landed right above the house,” he said in a telephone interview with AP. “And if someone had been in the truck, they would have been dead.”

Based on initial photos and videos posted by passengers, aviation safety experts said the plane appeared to have sustained and catastrophic engine damage.

Such an event is extremely rare and occurs when huge parts that spin inside the engine suffer some kind of failure and violate an armored housing around the engine that is designed to contain the damage, said John Cox, safety expert retired airline pilot and airline pilot who runs an aviation safety consulting firm called Safety Operating Systems.

“That unbalanced disk has a lot of force and spins at a few thousand revolutions per minute … and when you have that centrifugal force, it has to go somewhere,” he said in a telephone interview.

Pilots practice how to deal with such a frequent event and would immediately shut down anything flammable in the engine, including fuel and hydraulic fluid, using a single switch, Cox said.

Former NTSB President Jim Hall called the incident another example of “cracks in our aviation safety culture (that) need to be addressed.”

Hall, who served on the board from 1994 to 2001, criticized the FAA for the past decade for “going to manufacturers to oversee the aviation that the public paid for.” This is especially true for Boeing, he said.

The latest victim of a US airline flight involved such an engine failure on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas in April 2018. A passenger was killed when the engine disintegrated more than 30,000 feet above Pennsylvania. and the wreckage hit the plane, shattering the window. next to her chair. She was forced into the middle of the window before other passengers pulled her back inside.

In this case, the fault was attributed to a broken fan blade in a Boeing 737 engine. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to intensify inspections of fan blades on certain engines by CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric. and France Safran SA

In 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 suffered an unrestricted engine failure shortly after taking off from Singapore. The engine’s shrapnel damaged critical aircraft systems, but the pilots were able to land safely. The incident was attributed to the faulty manufacture of a pipe to the Rolls Royce engine.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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