New video

of an

engine cover that fell off a Boe

operated by Southwest Airlines

during takeoff in Denver last ni

Listen to the pilot And air

traffic control

working together to land

the Houston bound plane safely

back at Denver International Air

4695, No problem.

Five present headings.

And these are in checklists.

Yeah. We're going to need time.

For now, everything is okay.

And we don't even know the natur

But apparently several passenger

and flight attendants

heard something loud at the wing

So we're just going to take our

get set up and be ready to go.

Thank you. I was 36, 95. No prob

You can expect vectors.

Just keep me advised of the situ

and let me know

if you want to start emergency,

but I assume

we'll probably do that anyways.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'll get back to you. Standby.

I mean, pretty extraordinary, ri

The images you're seeing there

while they are taxiing

for take off, presumably

because we heard our Pete Monte

say that the plane actually made

about 10,000 feet in the air

before it was able to turn aroun

and then did land safely. There.

In a statement

to CNN, Southwest Airlines

apologizes for the inconvenience

but said

their highest priority

is the safety of their customers

The FAA is investigating the inc

which is the latest in a string

to plague Boeing aircraft.

This is not a 737 max.

And that's the big headline out

We've heard so much about the is

on the 737 max nine.

Like the Alaska Airlines door pl

incident back on January 5th,

This was an older 737 800

built in 2015 by Boeing.

This plane apparently

had issues almost immediately

after takeoff.

The Southwest flight was going

from Denver International and Ho

Hobby

took off

at about 749 Mountain Daylight t

So that's about 949 on the East

I want you to listen now

to some of the air traffic contr

audio that we have from live ATC

that in which the crew very calm

that had a very nice job here.

I told air traffic controllers

in total air

traffic controllers in Denver

that it sounded like

something hit the wing,

according to passengers

and according to flight attendan

So the crew declared

an emergency, came back around.

They were flying out to the west

over the city of Denver

and then over Centennial Airport

It looks like,

according to the data here

from Flight Aware

and then over the town of Strasb

only got through about 10,000 fe

which is sort of the norm when t

a bit abnormal on board

and then landed back to the nort

So according to Southwest

and we have this statement

just in from them.

Flight 3695 returned safely to D

International Airport around 815

local time Sunday,

the seventh

after the crew reported

an engine cowling

fell off during takeoff

and struck

the wing

flap at a cowling

is part of the engine cover.

You see them on the side of the

They are under the wings of a 73

That is essentially

what covers

the engine

from the exposed air

that's rushing by it.

And so the photos surfacing onli

show that sort of

mangled and and twisted around

part of the wing there.

But it seems like the crew very

got this airplane on the ground.

Nobody injured.

Southwest brought another plane

and ultimately got those folks o

their way to Houston Harvey.