A United Airlines’ Boeing plane made an emergency landing in Texas minutes into its flight after flames erupted from one of the engines.

Dramatic footage showed flames bursting from the engine shortly after take-off from Houston.

United Airlines Flight 1118, traveling to Fort Myers, Florida, had 167 passengers on board and departed George Bush Intercontinental Airport at 6:40 p.m. local time.

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The New York Post reports:

The plane was only “approximately 15 minutes” into the two-hour trip to Fort Myers, Florida when the incident occurred, passenger Dorian D. Cerda, who filmed the jarring video, told Storyful.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the terrifying ordeal.

United Airlines told Storyful in a statement “flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue.

“The flight landed safely and the passengers deplaned normally,” United Airlines said, adding that they “arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination.”

The plane was a Boeing 737-900, an aircraft with a similar design to the newer Max fleet that was grounded in January after a mid-cabin exit door plug was ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane flying over Oregon.

The cause of the engine issue hasn’t been disclosed.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the incident.

Per Zero Hedge:

“The plane was nosediving, and the pilot was bringing the plane back up,” passenger Elliot Trexler said, adding, “The plane was also rocking back and forth a lot.”

“And then it just turned into chaos. People were screaming and crying and trying to figure out what was going on,” Gruninger said.

Radio transmission from the pilots described “our left engine, our number one engine,” experienced an issue while climbing through about 10,000 feet.

The plane trip from hell lasted about 33 minutes after takeoff. Pilots landed safely around 7:31 local time—United credited passengers with $200 and a $15 meal voucher.

This adds to the incompetency crisis plaguing Boeing jets following the door plug that ripped off an Alaska Flight 1282 Boeing 737 Max 9 plane earlier this year. The Federal Aviation Administration’s audit of the incident revealed that Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems have “failed to comply with manufacturing quality control requirements.”

 

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