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A video shared online shows the exact moment a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 plane's engine burst into flames just after taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.
The aircraft was carrying 226 passengers and nine crew members on a flight to Atlanta when the mid-air malfunction occurred, KABC reports. Flames began to shoot from the engine of the Delta Flight 446 plane as it continued ascending in a video shared by the plane spotter L.A. FLIGHTS.
The airplane turned around and made an emergency landing back at Los Angeles International Airport shortly after the flames were present. The plane was reported to have landed safely and taxied at the gate without any visible fire upon reaching the terminal.
No injuries were reported and Delta's investigation into the incident is ongoing.
The incident is the latest involving Boeing aircrafts, which experienced several manufacturing issues in 2024, beginning with an Alaska Airlines plane's door plug blowing off the aircraft, causing an uncontrolled decompression. The incident reopened Boeing to new prosecution in a 2021 case in which it agreed to plead guilty to charges that it had deceived the FAA during the initial certification process of its 737 Max aircrafts.
Boeing paid fines of up to $487 million, double what it was ordered to pay in 2021 as part of its settlement and had agreed to operate under the oversight of a new government-appointed monitor, however, a federal judge rejected the plea in October due to questions about how the government-appointed monitor would be selected, which resulted in the punishment being uncertain.