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A heart-stopping video captured the moment the engines of a Boeing plane exploded and burst into flames in the skies over Texas, forcing an emergency landing.
The terrifying incident took place just minutes into a United Airlines flight bound for Fort Myers, Florida.
Video taken from the passenger window shows white-hot flashes coming from the 737’s jet engine.
“Hello ladies and gentlemen, we noticed something happened outside,” a crew member can be heard warning passengers before the clip cuts out.
Moments later, they were forced to make an emergency landing and return to Houston’s George H. Bush Intercontinental Airport moments after takeoff. No injuries were reported in the incident.
A heart-stopping video captured the moment the engines of a Boeing plane exploded and burst into flames in the skies over Texas, forcing an emergency landing.
The terrifying incident took place just minutes into a United Airlines flight bound for Fort Myers, Florida.
Video taken from a passenger window shows hot flashes coming from the Boeing Max 737 jet engine.
Passenger Dorian D. Cerda told Storyful that the plane was “approximately 15 minutes” into the two-hour trip when the incident occurred, and the plane landed just before 7 p.m.
“The flight landed safely and passengers disembarked normally,” United Airlines said, adding that they “arranged a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination.”
The cause of the explosion is not yet known, but the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
The plane model in the Houston incident was a Boeing 737-900, a plane similar to the Max fleet that was grounded in January after an exit door exploded during an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon.
On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said its six-week audit of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems found “multiple instances in which the companies allegedly failed to meet manufacturing quality control requirements.”
‘The FAA identified non-compliance issues in Boeing’s manufacturing process control, parts handling and storage, and product control. “The FAA is providing these details to the public as an update to the agency’s ongoing investigation,” the statement said.
Bolts appear to be missing from the door plug that exploded on a Boeing 737 MAX during an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5.
The door stopper was recovered from the backyard of a home after it exploded on January 5.
The administration announced it would continue to ground Boeing’s 171 planes and had halted production expansion of the Boeing 737 MAX.
The news was a blow to the aircraft manufacturer, whose market value plummeted by $30 billion after the disaster.
Boeing’s stock price also plummeted 20 percent in the month following the explosion.
The manufacturer also faces the threat of legal action, including from passengers who say they were traumatized by their experience aboard the Alaska Airlines flight.
Kyle Rinker and two other passengers seek $1 billion from Boeing and Alaska Airlines.
Rinker says the incident is affecting his daily life and even the sounds of passing planes give him flashbacks.
However, this was not the first time that planes had to remain grounded. Flights of the airliner were suspended worldwide in 2019 and 2020. 346 people died in two similar accidents: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019. .