All right, new video of an engine cover that fell off a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines during takeoff in Denver last night. Listen to the pilot and air traffic control working together to land the Houston bound plane safely back at Denver International Airport.

3695, no problem. Fly present heading. Do you need to run checklist?

Yeah, we're going to need some time. For now, everything's okay. We don't even know the nature of it, but Apparently, several passengers, and flight attendants heard something loud hit the wing. So we're just going to take our time, get set up, and be ready to go. Thank you.

Alpha 3695, no problem. You can expect vectors. Just keep me advised of the situation and let me know if you wanted to start an emergency, but I assume we'll probably do that anyways.

Yeah, I'll get back to you. Standby.

I mean, pretty extraordinary, right? The images you're seeing there while they are taxiing for takeoff, presumably, because we heard our Pete Muntine earlier say that the The plane actually made it about 10,000 feet in the air before it was able to turn around 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 incident, which is the latest in a string of issues to plague Boeing aircraft.

This is not a 737 MAX, and that's the big headline out of this. We've heard so much about the issues on the 737 MAX 9, like the Alaska Airlines door plug incident back on January fifth. 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 Houston Hobby, took off at about 7:49 Mountain Daylight Time. So that's about 9:49 on the East Coast. I want you to Listen now to some of the air traffic control audio that we have from LiveATC. Net, in which the crew, very commonly, that did a very nice job here, told air traffic controllers in Denver that it sounded like something hit the wing, according to passengers and according to flight attendants. 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 FlightAware, and then over the town of Strasbourg, only got to about 10,000 feet, which is the norm when things are a bit abnormal on board and then landed back to the north.

So according to Southwest, and we have this statement just in from them, Flight 3695 returned safely to Denver International Airport around 8:15 local time, Sunday the seventh, after a crew reported an engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap. A cowling is part of the engine cover. You've seen them on the side of the wings there, under the wings of a 737. That is essentially what covers the engine from the exposed air that's rushing by it. And so the photos surfacing online show that and twisted around the part of the wing there. But it seems like the crew very commonly got this airplane on the ground. Nobody injured. Southwest brought another airplane in and ultimately got those folks on their way to Houston.