'We all felt a kind of a bomb jolt': Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from DIA

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Robert Garrison is a Colorado native who grew up in Montrose and attended Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. He is an AP award-winning journalist who joined Denver7 in August 2016 after working for several other stations across Colorado and Oklahoma over the past decade.

DENVER — An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday morning.

"People in the exit row across from me started yelling up to the flight attendants and showed them the damage. We turned around and made a full-speed landing,” passenger Cooper Glass told ABC News. “Pilots did a great job on the landing. We got checked out by the fire department then got towed in." Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from Denver International Airport Southwest Airlines issued a statement after the incident, saying it’s working to get passengers on their way to Houston after a"mechanical issue."

 

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