Emotional distress lawsuit targets United after catastrophic engine failure

United Airlines is facing a class-action lawsuit over emotional distress after an emergency landing last month in Denver, according to paperwork filed Sunday in a US District Court of Colorado. On Feb. 20, United Flight 328 was forced to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport after the right engine exploded shortly after takeoff. No one aboard the flight was injured. The lawsuit calls the ordeal a near-death experience and says United was negligent in its infliction of emotional distress. Questions have surfaced about inspections on the plane's engines after the initial examination of the engine revealed damaged fan blades. The lawsuit also claims "most (if not all) passengers, suffered physical symptoms as a result of this intense experience, including: nausea, tachycardia, shaking, symptoms of shock, and following the flight, insomnia... This emotional distress was entirely foreseeable and would not have occurred but for United’s breach of duty." Story has more.<br/>