Security News > 2021 > February > Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US
In what can only be described as a bad day for Boeing, not one but two of its planes suffered engine fire and began shedding parts along their respective flight paths.
A Boeing 747-400 cargo plane flying from Maastricht Aachen airport in the Netherlands to New York on Saturday afternoon suffered an engine fire.
Longtail Aviation cargo 747 loses engine parts over Meerssen after failure on departure from Maastricht Airport in The Netherlands.
A few hours later, flight UA 328 from Denver to Honolulu suffered an eerily similar issue as passengers videoed a nacelle-less engine all ablaze outside their Boeing 777 window.
Incredible footage of UA 328 flight whose right engine caught fire soon after takeoff.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered emergency inspections of all 777s that contain the same model of Raytheon's Pratt & Whitney-made engine, while Japan and South Korea grounded all 777 flights with the Pratt engine variant.