United Airways Holdings Inc. says one other of its Boeing Co. plane misplaced a predominant touchdown gear wheel whereas taking off Monday, a close to repeat of an incident in March that helped set off a federal security evaluate of the service.
Nobody was injured on United Flight 1001, a United spokesman mentioned in an e-mail. The Boeing 757-200 that took off from Los Angeles about 7:16 a.m. native time and landed at Denver Worldwide Airport at 10:10 a.m.
The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned it’s investigating the incident.
The wheel was present in Los Angeles, United mentioned, with out offering particulars. There have been no reported accidents amongst individuals on the bottom or the 174 passengers and 7 crew on the aircraft, it mentioned. There are 4 wheels on every of the aircraft’s two predominant touchdown gears.
United shares fell 0.4% Monday. They’ve gained 13.5% 12 months to this point.
The incident is eerily much like a United flight in March that misplaced a wheel shortly after taking off from San Francisco on a flight to Osaka, Japan. The Boeing 777-200, with 249 individuals on board, diverted to Los Angeles Worldwide Airport the place it landed safely. Nobody was injured, however movies on X.com, previously Twitter, by RadarBox captured the second the wheel fell. It broken automobiles in a parking zone.
The FAA started a broad security evaluate of the airline after a sequence of headline-grabbing incidents over a number of weeks, together with the sooner misplaced wheel, an plane operating off a Houston runway and a fuselage piece additionally coming free in flight.
Final month, a United aircraft returned to a Connecticut airport after dropping a part of a liner from inside an engine cowl. And on Sunday, a United aircraft sure for Guam returned to Nagoya’s worldwide airport in Japan after detecting a system malfunction, Kyodo Information reported. There have been no accidents among the many 44 passengers and 6 crew members.
United mentioned it’s additionally investigating the most recent incident.
