Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: Mid-flight engine explosion forces landing

“We looked out the window and saw half of the engine was missing.”

A rare emergency in which machinery and other parts broke away from a plane at high velocity occurred on an Airbus A380 with 500 passengers bound for Los Angeles.

The U.S. manufacturer of the engine, Connecticut-based Engine Alliance, said it was investigating the failure.

Read the article on NBC News.