US PLANE CATCHES FIRE, LANDS WITH NOBODY INJURED

BROOMFIELD: Debris from a United Airlines plane fell onto Denver suburbs during an emergency landing Saturday after one of its engines suffered a catastrophic failure and rained pieces of the engine casing on a neighborhood where it narrowly missed a home.

The plane landed safely, and nobody aboard or on the ground was reported hurt, authorities said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the Boeing 777-200 returned to the Denver International Airport after experiencing a right-engine failure shortly after takeoff.

A United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure Saturday shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping massive debris on a residential area before a safe emergency landing, officials said. A video shot from inside the aircraft -which had 231 passengers and 10 crew on board -- showed the right engine ablaze and wobbling on the wing of the Boeing 777200, its cover entirely missing as the aircraft flew over a barren landscape. The plane landed safely at Denver International Airport, and no one on board or on the ground was hurt, authorities said. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident while authorities have not released any details about what may have caused the failure. United said it would “continue to work with federal agencies investigating this incident”.