(CNN) They were less than an hour from their idyllic vacation when suddenly they wondered whether they would survive. "We heard a tremendous bang, and then there was a sudden vibration -- a shaking because the engine mount was shaking," Canadian tourist Wayne Smellie told CNN affiliate KITVUnited Airlines Flight 1175, from San Francisco to Honolulu, had just lost the cover off its right engine . It was carrying 373 people, including many foreign vacationers. "There was this mighty noise, and you knew something was wrong," UK tourist Alison Grennan told KITV. As pieces of metal rattled loudly, passenger Erik Haddad recorded video of the plane over the Pacific.

Source: CNN February 14, 2018 14:15 UTC