Passengers on United Airlines Flight 328 remember the terrifying moment when the Boeing 777 had to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport after an engine broke down and burst into flames just moments after takeoff.
“I was sitting in the middle of the plane and there was a loud explosion,” Mike Vena, who traveled with his wife from Baltimore to Hawaii on Saturday, told CBS Denver.
“The plane just started shaking and it was about half an hour until the plane landed,” he said.
Passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 328 recall the frightening moment when the Boeing 777 made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport. (Istock).
The United Airlines flight, which departs from Denver to Honolulu on Saturday, traveled with 231 passengers and ten crew members. Authorities said no one on board was injured. Still, passengers say they were ‘scared to death’ when they heard the engine fall.
Ed and Barbara Underwood, from Kailua, Hawaii, told KHON2 they were scared and even texted their children because they were not sure if they would survive the flight.
“I just said the plane car blew up, that I do not know what is going to happen and that we like 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 they were going to land. “It was the longest 20 minutes returning to Denver,” she told KHON2.
The flight landed at Denver International Airport on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration later confirmed that the plane landed safely in Denver after a “right-engine crash after takeoff.”
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“There are reports of debris ending up next to the plane’s runway. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate,” the FAA said.