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Most Frightening Thing to Experience : United Airlines Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Goes Out Over the Ocean

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A United Airlines plane had a ‘terrifying’ emergency landing after one of its engines overheated over the ocean, according to a reporter who was on board the plane. United Flight 1516 bound for Houston, Texas, from Liberia, Costa Rica, because of the engine problem on the Boeing 737-800. “One of my plane’s engines overheated over the ocean. We about crashed in an emergency landing before the pilot quickly pulled up. So scary,” Jody Genessy, one of the passengers onboard, tweeted after landing… (www.aviationfigure.com) More...

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yr2012
matt jensen 2
Hardly "terrifying"
joelwiley
joel wiley 1
Overheated well describes the rhetoric. AVherald described it as an engine problem, shut down, burn off fuel and return.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4a8209b2&opt=0

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