Posted on 03/07/2024 5:52:31 PM PST by libh8er
A United Airlines flight traveling from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, had to turn around for an emergency landing after experiencing an engine issue on Monday, the airline confirmed.
A video shared on Storyful by Dorian Cerda shows flames spewing out of one of the plane's engines as a crew member acknowledged what was going on.
"Hey, ladies and gentlemen. We realize something happened outside," the crew member said over the plane's loudspeaker.
Cerda said they were about 15 minutes into the flight when the incident occurred.
A statement from United Airlines says flight 1118 landed safely back in Houston after the turnaround, and "passengers deplaned normally."
A new aircraft took customers to Fort Myers later in the evening.
The plane was a Boeing 737-900, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
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This is the third airplane issue thread today…(all different)
Fly the Affirmative Action skies!
Flame outs happen all the time.
Well, at least the wheels didn't fall off.
A former military aviator found the afterburner mode?
Compressor stall? Bird strike/ingestion?
Was on a business flight a few years ago. Left Denver, plane almost empty. About 10 minutes in, a small boom and suddenly we were flying at an angle. Very obvious. No other passengers noticed! A short while later, we turned back to Denver. No big deal.
Says the expert on absolutely nothing
Well, it happened to Maverick and that is how he lost Goose.
What little I know about flying twins says that the first things you do if you lose an engine are get the nose down and bank into the good engine, while pulling back the throttle on the good engine. Exciting for a commercial passenger, of course. Then ease the power back up. Twin engine airliners can maintain altitude indefinitely on one engine.
BBQ on the menu?
Fly the friendly skies of DEI
“Says the expert on absolutely nothing”
LOL!
“Flame outs happen all the time”
No they don’t.
I actually did think that what a flame out was...later learned otherwise.
No, that’s not right. I have 20,000 flight hours and no flame outs. It’s super rare.
“No, that’s not right. I have 20,000 flight hours and no flame outs. It’s super rare.”
This was an engine fire...probably even more rare.
What kind of flames? DEI flames or regular flames?
Flames?
Gotta be homosexual flames
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