Philippine Airlines Boeing 777 makes emergency landing at LAX

Published 1:30 am Friday, November 22, 2019

By Jaclyn Cosgrove / Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES —A Philippine Airlines flight headed to Manila made an emergency landing Thursday shortly after leaving Los Angeles International Airport after its right engine apparently started shooting flames.

Philippine Airlines Flight 113, a Boeing 777, landed without further incident at LAX about 11:50 a.m. after its flight crew reported a right-engine problem on departure, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Videos posted to social media showed short bursts of flames coming from the plane’s right engine.

“I could see flashes of light. I thought it was some kind of … just from the sunlight, and then I just start hearing ‘boom, boom, boom,’ and I look out of the window and there’s balls of fires just shooting out of the engine,” Walter Baumann, a passenger, told Los Angeles station KABC TV Channel 7.

Philippine Airlines has not yet responded to a request for comment.