Boeing 777 on fire in Colorado: "A serious incident but very well controlled"
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United Airlines flight UA328, carrying 231 passengers and 10 crew onboard, returns to Denver International Airport with its starboard engine on fire, February 20, 2021. via REUTERS - HAYDEN SMITH / @ speedbird5280
By: Florent Guignard
8 min
All Boeing 777 commercial planes, equipped with the engine model involved in the spectacular jet engine fire over the Colorado, or 128 in total, were immobilized on the ground.
United Airlines, victim of the incident, the two big Japanese companies, JAL and ANA, as well as the South Korean air carrier Asiana Airlines announced the immobilization of their devices equipped with an engine similar to the one which caused the problem.
The American Federal Aviation Regulatory Authority (FAA) has ordered additional inspections on certain Boeing 777s. Lighting from Jean-Claude Beaujour, international lawyer, vice-president of France-Amériques, specialist in the United States and of aeronautics.
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