Plane debris fell on Broomfield, Colorado, after an engine failure on a flight bound for Honolulu from Denver International Airport on February 20. READ MORE:* Boeing: 777s with engine that blew apart should be grounded* 'I thought we were done': Fear on Flight 328 as engine explodes on take-off* Explosive engine failure spurs Boeing 777 groundings in US, JapanChad Schnell/AP The engine of United Airlines Flight 328 exploded shortly after take-off from Denver, US. As a result, 69 planes and another 59 in storage were grounded in the US, Japan and South Korea, the only countries with planes using this particular engine. They will compare Saturday's incident with similar ones in December in Japan and in 2018 on another United flight to Hawaii. Hours before the Denver flight, a Boeing 747 cargo plane in the Netherlands suffered an engine failure that resulted in engine parts falling to the ground.

Source: Stuff February 22, 2021 23:03 UTC