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aircraft ran off the taxiway into a grassy area after landing at Houston on Friday, marking the third headline-grabbing incident this week involving the carrier’s Boeing Co. planes.
United Flight 2477, with 160 passengers and six crew, had just landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport about 8 a.m. local time when it veered into the grass on a turn. No one was injured, and passengers left the 737 Max on a set of mobile stairs before being bused to the terminal, the airline said.
Friday’s incident involves a 737 Max built four years ago that has been in service for less than a year. It follows the mid-air loss of a tire from a United Boeing 777-200 Thursday, just after the plane took off from San Francisco on a flight to Osaka, Japan, and an engine flare on a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, earlier this week.
The plane in the Houston-to-Florida flight had to make an emergency landing after one of its engines started flaming 10 minutes after takeoff. The 21-year-old aircraft was also a 737 — but an earlier version than the Max, according to FlightRadar24.
The 777 headed to Osaka had 249 people on board. It diverted to Los Angeles International Airport and landed without incident. The tire that plummeted damaged at least one car in an airport parking lot.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it will investigate all three incidents, while the National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to Houston. United said it will work with the FAA, NTSB and Boeing…
That plane was a Boeing 757-300. And the FAA also said it’s investigating a United flight from Pensacola, Florida, which landed safely Monday in Chicago after reporting a gear issue with the 737 aircraft.
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This is all fun and games until a plane full of people crashes and we find out the mechanic identifies as an amoeba
They’re hiring blacks and Indian engineers with fraudulent degrees passed through the system
@BoaJimRepublican2yrs2Y
It’s either DEI or CCP. But either way they should be grounded until it’s figured out for safety reasons.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How would you feel about flying on a United Airlines flight right now, given the recent series of Boeing incidents?
@9KPQM2Y2yrs2Y
The news tends to cover only the "big stuff" and most of the time its negative. But it canm also be positive at times.
@JovialBicameralPatriot2yrs2Y
They are normalizing airline accidents, so when they want to make someone disappear, this is how they will do it
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
@LyingRedStateForward2yrs2Y
Boeing is a microcosm of the United States
Blame DEI. See the Matt Walsh Show for disturbing details.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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