Category: emergency landing

Exam Finds Multiple Cracks in Part of United Jet’s Engine

Microscopic examination supports early suspicions that wear and tear caused a fan blade to snap inside one engine of a United Airlines plane that made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff last month in Denver, federal safety investigators said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board said the blade found “multiple fatigue fracture origins” on the…


Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Salt Lake City After Engine Issue

Delta Air Lines said on Monday that Flight DL2123 from Atlanta to Seattle on a Boeing 757-200 made an emergency landing at Salt Lake International Airport after an engine performance issue. A Delta spokeswoman said the plane diverted “out of an abundance of caution following an indicator warning of a possible problem with one of…


Debris Falls From Plane During Emergency Landing Near Denver

Debris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing on Saturday after one of the plane’s engines suffered a catastrophic failure and rained pieces of the engine casing on a neighborhood where it narrowly missed a home. The plane landed safely, and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported…