Debris from a commercial airliner fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday, with one very large piece narrowly missing a home. The plane landed safely and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported hurt, authorities said.
Debris from a commercial airliner fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday, with one very large piece narrowly missing a home. The plane landed safely and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported hurt, authorities said.
The Broomfield Police Department said on Twitter that the plane landed safely at Denver International Airport.
Photos posted by the police department showed large, circular pieces of debris leaning against a house in the suburb about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Denver.
No other details were immediately available from authorities.
Tyler Thal, who lives in the area, told The Associated Press that he was out for a walk with his family when he noticed a large commercial plane flying unusually low and took out his phone to film it.
“While I was looking at it, I saw an explosion and then the cloud of smoke and some debris falling from it. It was just like a speck in the sky and as I’m watching that, I’m telling my family what I just saw and then we heard the explosion,” he said in a phone interview. “The plane just kind of continued on and we didn’t see it after that.”
Thal was relieved to learn later that the plane had made a safe landing.
From Denver to Honolulu. There was another incident like this. It landed in Honolulu International Airport. With the same effect, all the engine panels flew off. I was just wondering if anybody could answer this for me. When that jet engine blew out and all the pieces flew out of the plane, with the fire seen on it, is there still engine combustion to that engine and is there still any few Jet exit velocity to that damaged engine? Because the airplane was still flying in mid-air.