United flight to Texas makes ‘harrowing’ emergency landing

United Airlines Flight 1516 from Costa Rica to Houston suffered an engine failure after it overheated and had to make an emergency landing at Liberia airport on Monday.

Genessy, a radio DJ and father-of-four, said passengers were not told of the engine problem until after the plane had landed, but could tell something was wrong.

Recounting the experience on Facebook, he said: ‘We had to fly around in circles over the ocean for about an hour to burn off fuel and [the pilot] was only using one engine this whole time, I guess.

When we were flying in for the landing, the plane felt really wobbly. I fly a lot and something felt weird and wrong and I was already tense and everyone was nervous.

‘Right as we were about to land, apparently a wind sheer hit us and with only one engine the pilot couldn’t stabilize [the plane].

 Passenger Jody Genessy said the plane nearly crashed as it was hit with a gust of wind on landing, but the pilot saved it

‘It tipped one way and people on that side  said the wing almost hit [the ground] and we were going hundreds of miles per hour at that point.

‘The pilot corrected and the plane wobbled the other way and he just yanked it up and we went back up in the air.

‘We all thought we were going to crash. We all thought we were going to die.

‘You just think about kids being left without parents and your life ending way too early and it was really frightening.’

Speaking two hours after the plane landed, Genessy said he was  was still ‘shaken’ and ‘skittish’, though thankful to be alive.

Source: United flight to Texas makes ‘harrowing’ emergency landing | Daily Mail Online