Local authorities closed several streets to locate and collect debris that fell from United Airlines Flight 328. The flight departed around noon Saturday for Honolulu, Hawaii, but its pilots made a call in May shortly after takeoff to report a right engine failure. The plane had just reached 1,000 feet when passengers heard an explosion, CNN reports. Travis Loock, a passenger with a clear view of the engine from the seat, I immediately knew something was wrong.
“There was a big boom and the kind of sound you don’t want to hear when you go on the plane,” Loock told the dam. “And I instantly cast my shadow, and I was pretty scared to see that the engine on my side was missing.”
“A lot of people didn’t see the engine on that side, right, so I was a little more freaked out because I saw it, and I knew that wasn’t right,” he said.
At 1:30 p.m., the plane was back on the ground safely and no injuries were reported among the 241 people on board, according to CNN. The first respondents said so a local CBS affiliate on Saturday they were also unaware of injuries on the ground.