Plane drops debris during emergency landing at Denver Airport

[rfisher]

Wow. Apparently, they just took off from Denver, had catastrophic engine failure and landed safely, but pieces of the engine fell all over subdivisions between Denver and Boulder. One piece of the engine cowling landed on some poor souls vehicle, just missing their house. They keep talking about planes "injesting stuff---mostly a flock of birds" and I have visions of the plane eating birds and spitting out the bones along with the engine.

 

[missing]

The pictures on Twitter are terrifying.

 

[Judy]

Omg ?.

 

[Wyliefan]

God bless the pilot. I hope he's having a good stiff drink.

 

[mjb52]

Glad it landed safely, very scary stuff.

 

[barbk]

It was apparently quite loud. We are really lucky that the weather was meh, because that park where a bunch of the debris landed is normally really crowded. The other day there were lots of kids playing in the snow, much of which has now melted. The dog park part of the park is also typically busy.

Super glad nobody was hurt. And, yeah, I expect that the pilots will knock back a few stiff ones tonight.

 

[rfisher]

Passengers too. One of them filmed the engine on fire. Apparently, the pilot's biggest problem was the fuel and having to dump it in order to safely land. The news just said so far there are no reported injuries from the debris. A lot of people had a lucky day.

 

[Judy]

Yes people could have been killed. Thank ? everyone is safe and the pilots are heroes.

 

[meggonzo]

Sounds like the plot to Donnie Darko.

 

[Coco]

Um, where did the fuel go? This sounds amazing that nothing worse happened.

 

[PrincessLeppard]

Most of the fuel evaporates before it hits the ground. Pilots usually try to dump it over water just in case, but that isn't always possible.

 

[BittyBug]

The reports I read said the pilots did not dump fuel.

 

[MacMadame]

I think it's weird there are no links to the story in this thread. So I went looking for them. This is two days old but I couldn't find anything newer:

United Airlines flight suffers engine failure, sending debris falling on neighborhoods outside Denver

A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, sending aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields, homes and yards in a Denver suburb.

www.cnn.com

 

[barbk]

I think it's weird there are no links to the story in this thread. So I went looking for them. This is two days old but I couldn't find anything newer:

United Airlines flight suffers engine failure, sending debris falling on neighborhoods outside Denver

A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, sending aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields, homes and yards in a Denver suburb.

www.cnn.com

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/02/22/united-airlines-flight-328-broomfield-plane-debris/ <==Police: please don't call us about tiny parts of planes; we want the big stuff only. (Gives a sense of how much debris fell. Lots.)

United Airlines grounds Boeing 777s after engine failure dropped debris on Broomfield

The airline’s voluntary decision came as the Federal Aviation Administration said it plans to order increased safety inspections for the type of engine involved, which uses a unique hollow fan blad…

www.denverpost.com

. <== Oops, they did it again. Now that a couple planes with this model of engine have done similar things, we're grounding them until we figure this out.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35503b&opt=0 <==most technical article

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/02...age-united-airlines-flight-328-damage-denver/ - it caused a hole in the body of the plane, making this a much more serious event.