A United Airlines’ Boeing plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas Monday just minutes into its flight after flames exploded from one of its jet engines.
Shocking video shows the bright orange sparks shooting several feet out from beneath the left wing of the airplane, just inches away from the passenger windows.
The intense flames were so hot that they appeared almost white against the night sky.
“Hey ladies and gentlemen, we realized something happened outside,” a crewmember trepidatiously said over the intercom before the short video cut out.
United Airlines Flight 1118 immediately returned just before 7 p.m. to George H. Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport, where it had taken off just minutes before.
The plane was…
