Passengers heard a loud explosion and began praying for their lives when a plane engine came off mid-air.
Iolani Kuoha, the vice-principal of a school, was escorting children from the Hawaiian island of Molokai to Oahu for a conference, when she heard a "really loud" noise that she described as "an explosion".
She said she tried to be as calm as she could as she did not want to make the children scared - and added she texted her daughter mid-air to ask her to pray for her.
