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“The engine inlet fell into the neighbourhood of Broomfield,CO, located about 16nm west of Denver near 13th and Elmwood Street, the debris also struck through the roof of an adjacent house.”

Simon Hradeckyavherald.com ↗

A PW4077 came apart on climb out of Denver with 239 people aboard. The crew flew back on one engine and nobody got hurt, in the air or on the ground. Debris spread over more than a nautical mile of suburb. That nobody on the ground was hurt was luck, not design.