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An Alliance Air ATR aircraft landed safely from Mumbai to Bhuj after a section of the engine's cowl - the removable covering of a vehicle's engine - fell off during takeoff and left one of its engines partially exposed.

An Alliance Air flight took off on Wednesday morning from the Mumbai airport without its engine cowl (cover), which fell off on the runway.

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. After an Alliance Air flight, which had taken off from Mumbai Airport without its cowl or engine cover on Wednesday landed safely at Bhuj airport, the airlines regretted the "unfortunate" incident and has ordered a thorough investigation. India News | Flight Takes off Without Engine Cover: Alliance Air Regrets unfortunate Incident, Initiates Probe.

After an Alliance Air flight, which had taken off from Mumbai Airport without its cowl or engine cover on Wednesday landed safely at Bhuj airport, the airlines

>> number one engine failure boeing 737, 149 souls on board. >> reporter: once on ground, investigators found a fan blade inside the left engine had broken apart in flight, tearing off a piece of the engine cowling, or casing, that shattered jennifer riordans passenger window she left behind two children and her husband michael. >> she was genuine and pure to her core. >> reporter: it was the second fan blade to break off a southwest 737 in less than a year. investigators determined a metal fati...

166 onboard the airbus a320. >> we can see that metal had been ripped off of the engine. >> frontier 260, i think we got something wrong with one of our engines. >> reporter: and it wasnt just passengers who saw the damage. >> someone at the airport said that youre -- they just told us now your second engine cowling appears open or something like that. >> okay. we need to declare an emergency back to the airport. >> reporter: it was the engine covering, its called a cowling, that had been shredd...

Engine fan blade broke off. microscopic wear and tear on the fan blade. the agency had been working to collect parts that came off the plane in flight like these pieces of the engine cowling. we learned that the engine manufacturer recommended ultra sonic inspections of certain fan blades in a 12-month period. thats after an engine failed two years ago on a southwest flight. you can compare the damage here. southwest pushed back on the inspections saying they needed more time to do them. the faa...

hate. the tsa and ticket fees. add them together. >> what is it thats prompting them to ask for more? >> reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays for the ticket. from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. >> 10s pushing it to a limit. i guess its only $5 more but i wonder, you know, how that fits in. they already have a budget. >> reporter: tsas budget is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee w...

want to begin with this afternoons scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie oleary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? >> we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. th...

This is the engine cowling. it will be used as a water feature and a fire pit outside. and you can see this here. so we found that there is tremendous purpose in reusing these airplane parts. >> versus anybody do this before? >> no, i hadnt. i always loved the beauty and technology of airplanes and imagined a floating roof as a house and this became a perfect opportunity to use it. >> a couple of questions for you. first of all, where did you find the plane? i didnt know you could buy plane part...