Boeing 767 of United Airlines suffered engine failure after take off from Munich Airport in Germany en route to Newark Liberty International Airport in USA. The right hand engine PW4052 suffered technical failure during climbing out of the runway. The crew stopped the troubled engine and returned to Munich for a safe landing on runway 26R about 22 minutes after departure. Fortunately there were no injured people and no damages to the airplane.
A passengers reported the engine emitted a loud bang and all lights went out.
The aircraft was cancelled from operations and remains on the ground until fixing the problems. Another replacement plane was sent to perform the flight to Newark Liberty International Airport.
The Boeing 767 is a mid- to large-size, mid- to long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was Boeing’s first wide-body twinjet and its first airliner with a two-crew glass cockpit. The aircraft has two turbofan engines, a conventional tail, and, for reduced aerodynamic drag, a supercritical wing design. Designed as a smaller wide-body airliner than earlier aircraft such as the 747, the 767 has seating capacity for 181 to 375 people, and a design range of 3,850 to 6,385 nautical miles (7,130 to 11,825 km), depending on variant.
