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Part of an engine masking has fallen off a Boeing airplane within the US throughout takeoff and struck the wing flap.

Southwest flight 3695 was leaving Denver International Airport on Sunday morning at 8.15am when the engine’s cowling indifferent and hit the wing, in accordance with Reuters.

A video posted to social media, the engine cowling may be seen flapping within the wind earlier than it detaches fully and bangs towards the plane’s wing.

The Houston-bound flight, carrying 135 passengers, returned to the Colorado airport with out incident. No accidents have been reported.

Southwest mentioned the airplane “landed safely after experiencing a mechanical issue,” in accordance with ABC News.

The Federal Aviation Administration introduced on Sunday that it’ll examine the incident on the Boeing 737-800, the most recent involving the plane producer.

A passenger, who gave the title Lisa C, informed ABC News mentioned the cowling indifferent roughly 10 minutes after boarding was accomplished.

“We all felt kind of a bump, a jolt, and I looked out the window because I love window seats, and there it was,” she informed the outlet.

Another passenger, Cooper Glass, informed ABC News that the incident was “frightening,” however that the pilot did a wonderful job returning to the airport.

Southwest Airlines mentioned its upkeep groups have been inspecting the plane. The affected passengers have been flown on one other flight to Houston about three hours behind their scheduled arrival time.

The incident is the most recent in a string of points to plague Boeing.

On 5 January, a door plug panel on a brand new Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane tore off whereas it was cruising at 16,000 toes.

The FAA subsequently grounded 171 of the corporate’s MAX 9 aircrafts for evaluation. It has additionally prohibited the corporate from rising manufacturing of the MAX sequence plane, and has ordered it to develop a complete plan to handle “systemic quality-control issues”.

The Department of Justice has launched a felony investigation into the Alaska Airlines incident. The investigation will centre on whether or not Boeing complied with a 2021 settlement it agreed to after a pair of lethal crashes that have been attributed to faults in its 737 MAX Maneuvering Characterists Augmentation System, Forbes reviews.