Not the plane in the story but a photo by Oliver Holzbauer/Flickr (Creative Commons)

That one time when the engine burst into flames at 20,000 feet…

My story of how the Netflix Latin American launch tour started off very badly.

Suddenly, there was a tremendous bang. The twin-engine 777 jerked violently to the left. It was immediately clear that it wasn’t turbulence, though what had happened wasn’t clear either. As the plane listed to the left, sour…