Engine Fire over Denver

[Downward]

https://twitter.com/michaelagiulia/status/13632411...

Shredding the Engine covering as it goes.

All landed safely back at the airport though.

Some good vids on twitter of various pieces landed and falling to the ground

[Quhet]

Some scary footage on twitter https://twitter.com/michaelagiulia/status/13632411...

[stevemcs]

There isn't a lot left of that, what is it with modern engines when they go bang they seem too lose a lot of the cowling.

[Krikkit]

Crikey that's a real mess, surprised it was still on the pylon given how much it was wobbling about

[V41LEY]

BBC reporting with photos of the engine cowling in someone’s garden in Denver.

[Tony1963]

If you don’t use Twitter:

https://youtu.be/T6wgXNSwCDA

[aeropilot]

And pretty much at the same time, a 747 Freighter had a similar uncontained engine failure over Holland, shedding pieces of engine that caused some damage and some injuries to people on the ground.
P&W investigators are going to be a bit busy.....

[Downward]

Yeah big pieces of aircraft in gardens on a football pitch and by the side of the road

[scrw.]

aeropilot said:

And pretty much at the same time, a 747 Freighter had a similar uncontained engine failure over Holland, shedding pieces of engine that caused some damage and some injuries to people on the ground.
P&W investigators are going to be a bit busy.....

Could have been nasty.... https://www.airlineratings.com/news/747s-engine-tu...

[sherman]

Shody terrorists or coincedence?

[Gameface]

sherman said:

Shody terrorists or coincedence?

[Petrus1983]

Downward said:

Yeah big pieces of aircraft in gardens on a football pitch and by the side of the road

[Tony1963]

sherman said:

Shody terrorists or coincedence?

What are you on about.

Learn to spell.

[Cold]

A short slideshow of images is available from Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-airpla...

[Chuck328]

Safer onboard than under the flight path of that!

[sherman]

Tony1963 said:

sherman said:

Shody terrorists or coincedence?

What are you on about.

Learn to spell.

2 planes with essentially the same incident.
As for the spelling, I wont comment on your punctuation.

Edited by sherman on Sunday 21st February 02:19

[jimmyjimjim]

Won't. (sorry, won't do it again).

[Crumpet]

Interesting that the fire kept burning. Not something you’d want 180 minutes from land somewhere over the Pacific.

[MikeGTi]

ATC and radar recording here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-zh7Sebr8

[aeropilot]

This is one of the oldest 777's flying, being the 5th one built.

As said, above, its a good job it happened so soon into the flight, and not 3/4 hours later out over the Pacific when they were a couple of hours from the nearest runway in either direction....