Posted on 02/12/2026 11:55:35 AM PST by V_TWIN
Terrifying images show a passenger plane flying with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it managed an emergency landing.
Passengers filmed the shocking view of the Arik Air Boeing 737’s left engine destroyed during a cross-country flight in Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Some of the horrified 80 passengers could be heard screaming as the plane instead made an emergency landing in neighboring Benin, somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.
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I think I would expect an upgrade for my next trip.
Or at least an olive in my martini…
No terrifying to the onlookers, but certainly to those on board.
Hostess to exhausted passengers sliding down the inflated ramp to exit at the end of Airplane!:
“Thank you for flying Trans American Airlines.”
Arik Air, West Africa’s leading airline.
Very good piloting.....
Either it struck something on the ground or the well trained mechanics in Nigeria forgot to fasten part of the cowling. The engine did not “blow up” the nacelle blew to pieces and part of it struck the vertical. Judging by the turbofan rotating freely, no blood or feathers, no signs of flames, I am putting my money on a failure of proper maintenance and an oversite by the ground crew. OR. Maybe it hit a weather balloon. Hard to guess with the damage to the vertical.
Shhhhhhh! Pretty sure flying with one motor is built in. 🤔
Excuse me, Terrifying is the plane nosing over and crashing. Safely landing is just an interesting story!
“…somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.“
Yeah, somehow.
how far will the other engine take us!?!?!?!?
all the way to the scene of the crash
Ron White
Yeah, somehow designed to fly safely & land on one engine. 🙄
And it looks like it was a case of ground crew oversight of proper engine cowl latching.
“Pretty sure flying with one motor is built in.”
Yeah, but not exactly desirable. 😏
I like that.
Good job by the flight crew?
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