Air France passengers describe mid-air drama as engine disintegrates over Atlantic
An Air France plane en route to Los Angeles from Paris made an emergency landing Saturday in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., after one of its engines blew out over the Atlantic Ocean.
Passengers on the Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world, tweeted pictures of the damaged engine. The plane had left Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris Saturday morning.
Passenger Pamela Adams said things were going "as normal" for the first six and a half hours of the flight.
"I was doing some yoga stretches and suddenly it felt like we had run into a jeep in the middle of 35,000 feet high," she told CBC News. "It did not sound like an explosion as much as it sounded like an engine malfunction."...