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PLANE – A chaotic about-face. This Thursday, January 18, in the evening, a Boeing 747 cargo plane belonging to the American airline Atlas Air landed in Miami after an engine malfunction occurred shortly after take-off. as you can see in our video above. On social networks, a video filmed by a witness shows the plane reversing and leaving an alarming trail of sparks.
“It looked like he was making a big, wide swing,” video author Melanie Adaros told AP News. While Melanie was walking with her mother not far from Miami Executive Airport, she heard a plane flying very low and looked up to film it. “It was surreal.” The plane, bound for Puerto Rico, “landed safely after an engine malfunction occurred shortly after departure,” an Atlas Air spokesman said in a statement.
“The crew followed all standard safety measures and returned safely to Miami Airport,” he added, indicating that the airline would investigate the causes of this disruption. The American Civil Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the incident during the flight and announced that it would open an investigation into the incident. At AFP's request, the Boeing Group referred the matter to the airline.
The American aviation giant is officially being investigated by the FAA for a possible failure of its quality controls after an incident occurred in early January: a door came off the cabin of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft during an Alaska Airlines flight. Although the incident Caused only a few minor injuries, it is the first major aviation safety problem on a Boeing aircraft since the fatal 737 MAX accidents in 2018 and 2019, which led to a long shutdown of the aircraft.
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