A United Airlines plane flying to Hawaii was forced to make an emergency landing after its engine strated to rip apart mid air.
A piece of the cover came off the the flight 1175¡¯s right engine, United spokesman Charles Hobart told CNN. ¡°Our pilots followed all necessary protocols to safely land the aircraft."
The fiasco started after a loud bang was heard roughly 35 minutes before the flight was scheduled to land in Honolulu.
¡°There was a loud bang... and then the plane really started shaking,¡± passenger Allison Sudiacal told Hawaii News Now. ¡°There was a loud boom and then it was like rattling and the plane was kind of shaking like boom, boom, boom.¡±?
Pilots declared an emergency due to a vibration in the right engine and warned airport ground crew.
The Boeing 777 landed safely, said a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman. Some 363 passengers and 10 crew members were on board.
But the incident left passengers terrified. One Maria Falaschi, who uploaded a series of dramatic photos, said it was .the ¡°scariest flight of my life.¡± Many lauded the flight crew for keeping the atmosphere in the cabin as calm as possible.?