United plane’s engine catches fire mid-flight

houston, An airplane United who was traveling from houston Fort Myers, Texaswas forced to replace it after one of its engines caught fire on Monday,

many of 167 passengers aboard Boeing 737 recorded video Flames were seen in one of the device’s engines, according to television station KTRK-TV.

“I remember seeing a loud, flashing light coming through the window and it looked like a bomb had gone off” and then seeing the fire, said David Gruninger, who was with 15 friends after attending a ceremony. Were going back to my home in Florida. A wedding in Mexico.

FlightAware showed that Flight 1118 took off from George Bush Intercontinental Airport at 6:40 p.m. and turned around at 6:52.

According to the radio transmission, one of the pilots said, “It was our left engine, our number one engine, that went up as we climbed to about 10,000 (feet), and the flight attendants were there momentarily. Saw the flames.”

The plane landed back at Bush Airport at 7:13 pm, just 33 minutes after takeoff.

“It was a very turbulent return and quite a hard landing,” Gruninger explained to KTRK. “It’s something I’ll remember every time I fly.”

United flew the passengers to Fort Myers on a different plane a few hours later.

The plane that had engine trouble was scheduled to take off from Bush Airport for Orlando at 7:20 a.m. Thursday.

United emails provided by a passenger show that the airline offered them a $200 travel bonus and a $15 meal bonus on travel with the company.

“United Flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to engine trouble. The aircraft landed without any problems and passengers disembarked normally. “We prepared a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that day,” the airline said in a statement.