A passenger, John Birkhead, said he and his wife had just stood up to stretch when they heard the explosion. “We were just stretching and talking, and suddenly there was an enormous bang, and the whole plane shook,” Mr. Birkhead, 59, who was returning home to California after a two-week vacation, said. About 20 minutes after the disturbance, the captain, whom Ms. Eamigh described as sounding shaken, announced that an engine had exploded. Several hours after landing at Goose Bay Airport, passengers were just getting off the plane. Air France said it was working to reroute passengers through one of its connecting sites in North America.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2017 20:40 UTC