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February 23, 2004 -- Passengers on a Tokyo-bound flight out of Kennedy Airport got the scare of a lifetime yesterday when one of the plane's engines failed and the aircraft was forced to turn around and make a dramatic emergency landing.
"There was a big bang. We took off and it was like we'd just run over something - just a huge bang," said Adrian McDermott, 38, one of the 153 passengers and 10 crew members aboard. "It actually kind of made us dip."
The short and scary round trip of American Airlines Flight 167 began when the Boeing 777 took off at 12:31 p.m. - an hour late.
A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said one of the plane's engines stalled at take-off.