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Sunday, February 21, 2021

THE HAPPENING WORLD: United Flight 328—What You Don’t Want to See out Your Passenger Window

Shortly after departure from Denver airport bound for Honolulu, a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 suffered a catastrophic failure of the right engine as photographed by a passenger above. Here is a quick look analysis by Juan Browne, including dash-cam video of the failure as it happened, video and pictures of debris falling to and on the ground, air traffic communications during the emergency, and video of the landing back at Denver.

Posted at February 21, 2021 11:59