(CNN) — Dramatic video shows the fiery moments after a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 hit an animal on takeoff from Denver International Airport on Sunday.
“Every once in a while a little burst of plane (is) coming out the right engine,” air traffic control warned the pilots, as heard on audio captured by the website LiveATC.net.
“Yeah, affirm, we think we lost our right motor,” the pilot responded.
United flight 2325 took off Sunday from Denver going to Edmonton, Canada, with 153 passengers and six crew members onboard.
The crew reported striking an animal while taking off, the FAA said in a statement. They did not specify the animal, however rabbits were reported on the runway at the time of the incident.
“Use caution for rabbit activity,” the control tower warned several pilots. “A rabbit was reported… heading towards your runway.,”
“We might have ran them over,” a different United pilot radioed the …