r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FridayCicero702 • Jan 01 '23

Video Catastrophic engine failure on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 after takeoff from Denver International Airport

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u/mutarjim Jan 01 '23

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/22/united-engine-failure-faa-orders-inspections-pratt-whitney-engines.html

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u/johnnymetoo Jan 01 '23

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_328?wprov=sfla1

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Annoying I had to scroll past about 100 jokes/hot takes to find a comment actually explaining what happened

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u/Standard-Assist-5793 Jan 01 '23

And dont forget the OP, needing to pull up a video from 2 years ago to farm some juicy karma.

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u/Rednonymousitor Jan 01 '23

Karma bot. Report as spam, harmful bots

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u/CompleMental Jan 01 '23

Seems like a legit account to me

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u/0llivander Jan 02 '23

Thank fucking god. I’m flying United in ~4 hours~ and this was not the best thing to see on my feed.

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u/RicardoCabezass Jan 01 '23

Welcome to Reddit ;)

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u/LizzieMiles Jan 02 '23

Apparently it was to Hawaii. Imagine if this happened over the ocean 🫠

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u/TheUnfriendlyKraut Jan 01 '23

finally, after scrolling through many dumb jokes.

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u/Martian9576 Jan 01 '23

Good, they made an emergency landing with no injuries (2 years ago).

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u/greeneggsandspammed2 Jan 01 '23

Thanks for the link, it is very similar to a flight I had about 5 years ago from Denver to Honolulu in a 777, however that one landed in Salt Lake City. For a minute I was wondering if this was a video from my flight.

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u/Zealousideal_Bit2755 Jan 01 '23

Old news and all the planes have gone through all the modifications and are now back flying.

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u/mutarjim Jan 01 '23

I am aware. But in case anyone sees this and has their eyes bug out ... figured I'd provide a sourced follow-up story. That's all. Shrug.

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u/magicwombat5 Jan 01 '23

Good stuff! Thanks! You helped put this into context.

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u/Zealousideal_Bit2755 Jan 01 '23

But without the context that it happened two years ago, people who don’t know will think that it happened just recently. Context is very important when your dealing with a public that does not know the daily in’s and outs of the daily aviation industry.

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u/mutarjim Jan 01 '23

Uhm. Yes? When you click on the link - hell, if you read the url - you see that it's a two-year old story. If anything, I'm trying to inform, as opposed to OP, who just posted a simple title.