One of the engines on an Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles blew up over the Atlantic on Saturday, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing in Canada.
None of the 520 passengers were injured aboard the Airbus A380, which is the world’s largest commercial airliner.
The four-engine airliner left Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday morning.
According to transmissions from air traffic control, the jet landed safely in Goose Bay, Labrador at around 1:40 p.m. local time with part of the engine cowling missing, the Canadian Broadcasting Company said.
The landing left debris scattered on the runway. But there was no fire.
One of the passengers, a master of understatement named Daniel McNeely, tweeted, “One of our engines is slightly blown apart’’ and “I think the engine has seen better days.’’