Jakarta –
The United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing. As a result, the plane’s wings broke and fell off.
Launch Huffpost, Thursday (22/2/2024), this incident was captured by passengers on Monday’s flight (19/2). The video was posted on Facebook and to local media.
The video shows the right wing of the Boeing 757-200 plane looking broken and as if torn apart. This made the San Francisco to Boston flight have to make an emergency landing.
“We’re about to land in Denver with the plane’s wings coming off,” passenger Kevin Clarke said in a video he recorded and posted on Facebook by his wife.
“Soon to land and the nightmare will be over,” he added.
The incident was also posted by a Reddit user who also claimed to be a passenger.
Clarke told the incident to a local Maine television station, WMTW, that he had just started sleeping but heard an unusually loud noise.
“Unbelievably loud shaking like I’ve never heard. I was like, what was that? And it stopped within seconds,” the caption stated.
In a separate Facebook post, Clarke explained that the pilot had come to check the plane’s wings from the window. The pilots were then told by headquarters that the plane was still safe to fly, but they would have to change planes in Denver.
A United Airlines spokesperson confirmed in a statement that there was a problem with the plane’s wing. The flight carrying 165 passengers landed safely in Denver and the passengers were transferred to a different plane and arrived in Boston that evening.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident. A preliminary report released on Wednesday (21/2/2024) said that the slat or aerodynamic surface on the edge of the plane’s wing broke during takeoff. On the other hand, no injuries were reported.
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2024-02-22 05:35:57
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