"I thought we were going down": What we know about the United Airlines engine explosion – Travel Weekly

24 Feb 2021 A United Airlines flight has been forced to make an emergency landing in Denver after one of its engines blew apart. The Boeing 777, which was bound for Hawaii, returned to Denver airport not long after take-off over the weekend, while the explosion rained pieces of wreckage down on suburban neighbourhoods below. According to passengers on board, the aircraft was almost at cruising altitude and the captain was giving an announcement when a loud bang shook the cabin followed by a bright flash. David Delucia told ABC News he was sitting across the aisle from the failed engine and that the plane began to “shake violently”, lost altitude and began to “go down”.