{"id":51167,"date":"2025-12-14T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51167"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:20:21","slug":"no-injuries-after-engine-fails-on-united-flight-sparks-brush-fire-near-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=51167","title":{"rendered":"No injuries after engine fails on United flight, sparks brush fire near runway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of the engines on a United Airlines flight taking off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia failed as it lifted off Saturday, sparking a fire near the runway, officials said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No one was injured and the plane later landed safely, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It happened on United Flight 803, a Boeing 777-200ER jet with 275 passengers and 15 crew members aboard, according to the airline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">During takeoff at about 12:20 p.m., the left engine failed and a piece of engine cover separated and caught fire, sparking a mulch fire near the runway, according to Duffy and airport officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The plane, which was headed to Tokyo and had about 16 hours&#8217; worth of fuel aboard, dumped fuel over Virginia from 5,000 feet and landed back at Dulles at about 1:30 p.m., according to officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The airline said passengers would be accommodated on another plane later Saturday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/injuries-after-engine-fails-united-flight-sparks-brush\/story?id=128379367\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the engines on a United Airlines flight taking off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia failed as it lifted off Saturday, sparking a fire near the runway, officials said.&nbsp; No one was injured and the plane later landed safely, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.&nbsp; It happened on United Flight 803, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":51168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2837,2521,748],"class_list":["post-51167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-flight","tag-no","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51169,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51167\/revisions\/51169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}