Passengers Get Gnarly Footage Of A Terrifying Plane Engine Failure During A Flight In Hawaii

This is the nightmare everyone who’s afraid of flying has seen play out in their minds over and over before. You look out the window during a flight and it appears as if the engine is about to fall off the plane. That’s pretty much exactly what happened on a recent flight in Hawaii after all hell broke loose around 45-minutes before the plane was set to land.

Two passengers seated in window seats next to the engine were able to capture some of the craziest footage you’ll ever see in commercial aviation. This all happened on a United Airlines flight which was forced to make an emergency landing in Honolulu 45-minutes before the plane’s scheduled landing.

Seriously, imagine waking up from a nap on the plane and looking out the window to see this. Then imagine trying to not soil your pantaloons when you realize that the plane is quite literally falling apart mid-air:

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This sounds f’n terrifying:

Apparently, the damage would’ve never caused a crash by itself. The plane’s engines are designed to withstand external damage such as this. However, if something else were to strike the engine while it was exposed I have to imagine that’s when the engine would’ve blown.

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I really hope that United Airlines hooked those passengers up with some massive vouchers after this harrowing ordeal. If I was on that flight I’m not sure I could bring myself to ever fly American Airlines again.

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