After an emergency landing, 300 Sydney-bound passengers are on a remote island | NewsRme

A aircraft carrying passengers from the United States bound for Sydney had to make an emergency landing after experiencing engine trouble, leaving the passengers stranded in American Samoa.

Around midnight on Friday, United Flight 839 is thought to have landed at Pago Pago Airport with more than 300 passengers still on board.

According to United Airlines, plans are being made to house travelers on the island.

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[desmond-hawkins]

Yes this is exactly how it happened, with the plane on fire flying 100 feet above power lines in a zig zag.

[tacitdionysus]

Mispronounced Pago Pago. Implied that passengers were marooned, when they were flown out not long afterwards, after being looked after really well by the Samoans. While this is being talked about, most of the clip shows a digital cartoon of a Qantas aircraft with a major engine fire with no relevance to the narrative. If you are deliberately setting out to produce stupid and amusingly muddled clips, you're doing very well.

[derekashworth]

WTF is this garbage? It was a United Airlines flight, Qantas has nothing to do with it.

Also A380 losing an engine on climb out has little to no impact. Because it's a 4 engine aircraft, the crew would have the option to continue to destination should they believe it is safe to do so (a twin engine aircraft that loses one must divert to the nearest suitable).