Scary! A United Boeing 777-200's parts fall from the sky
The United flight 328 was headed to Honolulu when the aircraft's right engine suffered a failure.
<p>Parts of a United Airlines aircraft engine lay strewn around the Broomfield County of Colorado, US after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.<br /> </p><p>The Boeing 777-200 with 231 passengers and 10 crew onboard landed safely at the Denver International Airport.</p>
Parts of a United Airlines aircraft engine lay strewn around the Broomfield County of Colorado, US after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
The Boeing 777-200 with 231 passengers and 10 crew onboard landed safely at the Denver International Airport.
<p>The United flight 328 was headed to Honolulu when the right engine suffered a failure. <br /> </p><p>The US National Transportation Safety Board has initiated an investigation into the incident.<br /> </p><p>NTSB's Denver-based investigators are currently going through the debris recovered from Broomfield to find out what caused the 26-year-old aircraft's Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine to fail.</p>
The United flight 328 was headed to Honolulu when the right engine suffered a failure.
The US National Transportation Safety Board has initiated an investigation into the incident.
NTSB's Denver-based investigators are currently going through the debris recovered from Broomfield to find out what caused the 26-year-old aircraft's Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine to fail.
<p>Boeing is yet to give a statement. In a statement, United Airlines Pilots' Union commended the crew of United Flight 328 for safely returning to Denver after experiencing a significant uncontained engine failure. <br /> </p><p>The statement further said that extremely rare engine failures like this prove that there is no substitute for experience.</p>
Boeing is yet to give a statement. In a statement, United Airlines Pilots' Union commended the crew of United Flight 328 for safely returning to Denver after experiencing a significant uncontained engine failure.
The statement further said that extremely rare engine failures like this prove that there is no substitute for experience.
<p>The statement said that the most important aircraft safety system is two well-trained professional pilots at the controls on the flight deck. <br /> </p><p>The Colorado incident is scaringly similar to the damage suffered by a Japan Airlines 777-200 in December which had the same type of Pratt & Whitney engines. In that incident too, the aircraft lost a panel and suffered fan blade damage. The aircraft, however, landed safely.</p>
The statement said that the most important aircraft safety system is two well-trained professional pilots at the controls on the flight deck.
The Colorado incident is scaringly similar to the damage suffered by a Japan Airlines 777-200 in December which had the same type of Pratt & Whitney engines. In that incident too, the aircraft lost a panel and suffered fan blade damage. The aircraft, however, landed safely.