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Terrifying video shows plane flying with shredded engine after midair explosion
nypost.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2026 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 02/12/2026 11:55:35 AM PST by V_TWIN

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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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To: TalBlack

Yes. It is much harder to get down on the ground with only one engine. The plane tends to soar into outer space on one engine. Our crew of expert journalists at work.


21 posted on 02/12/2026 1:49:54 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: Libloather; dfwgator

CALM DOWN!!!

😁😁😃🤣🤣🤣

Time for ‘Airplane!’


22 posted on 02/12/2026 2:10:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: frank ballenger

An Arik Air spokesperson said the airline “sincerely apologizes to the affected … passengers whose journey has been disrupted.”

The scare of their lives is more than having their trip “disrupted.”


23 posted on 02/12/2026 2:57:50 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: V_TWIN

what was the age of the plane? I bet it was 30+ years old.


24 posted on 02/12/2026 3:55:54 PM PST by ncfool (we are witnessing the rebirth of American greatness 🇺🇸)
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To: V_TWIN

“Somehow limping to the ground on only one engine,” What a dumb statement, NYP. They can fly on one engine .


25 posted on 02/12/2026 7:14:23 PM PST by mfish13 ( )
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