A United Airlines flight traveling from San Francisco to Paris had to be diverted after the Boeing plane suffered engine problems.
Flight 990, a Boeing 777-200, had to land at Denver International Airport after the crew reported a problem with an engine.
The plane’s journey, seen on Flightradar24, showed it heading north toward the Canadian border before turning south toward Colorado City.
In a statement, United said the flight landed safely with all 273 passengers and the 12-person crew disembarking.
The company said it had been “working with our customers to provide them with flight options on Friday.”
This latest incident involving a Boeing aircraft is another blow for the beleaguered airline manufacturer as it continues to battle an ongoing safety crisis.
Flight 990, a Boeing 777-200, similar to the one seen here, had to land at Denver International Airport after the crew reported a problem with an engine.
The plane’s journey, seen on Flightradar24, showed it heading north toward the Canadian border before turning south toward Colorado City.
The company has been plagued by problems, including a near-catastrophic incident in January when a fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 exploded mid-flight.
Since then, the company has faced questions after several other potentially dangerous episodes.
Earlier this month, another 777-200 was also leaving San Francisco for Osaka in Japan when its wheel came off.
Several vehicles in the employee parking lot were severely damaged by a falling wheel that also destroyed a fence.
The plane landed safely at LAX around 1:20 p.m. without further incident and no injuries were reported on the ground.
Another Boeing plane, also operated by United Airlines, was grounded two weeks after it was discovered to be missing a panel after landing.
The plane, a Boeing 737-824, landed at Medford Airport in Oregon even though a part was missing and no injuries were reported.
Just days before the plane with the missing part was grounded, another Boeing plane had to land after hydraulic fluid leaked from the landing gear in mid-flight.
A United Airlines plane built by Boeing was grounded after it was found to be missing a panel, pictured, after landing after a flight.
The Boeing plane was forced to land due to hydraulic fluid leaking from the landing gear area.
The crash landing occurred as the San Francisco-bound 777-300 was embarking from Sydney, with film recording a fluid leak from its landing gear.
After the Alaska Airlines flight’s door plug exploded, investigators said bolts holding the panel in place were missing after repair work at a Boeing facility.
Federal regulators then placed a limit on 737 production and found a series of problems after an inspection at Boeing facilities.
The Justice Department opened its criminal investigation into the incident and investigators contacted passengers saying they may have been victims of a crime.
Earlier this month, approximately 50 people were treated for injuries after a Boeing 787 flying from Australia to New Zealand suffered a “technical event.”
That caused the plane to sink, shaking passengers in their seats. The company told airlines to start inspecting switches in pilots’ seats after a report said an accidental movement of the cockpit seat caused the incident.
Shortly before that incident, Boeing said the technical failure involving the door was due to something that occurred during production.
The company said required documents detailing the removal of a key part that failed were never created.
There were no serious injuries from the terrible air failure, but passengers’ belongings, including phones, flew from the plane.
The door stopper was recovered from the backyard of a home after it exploded on January 5.
The LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane that suddenly lost altitude in mid-flight, falling violently and injuring dozens of travelers, is seen on the tarmac at Auckland International Airport on March 12, 2024.
It was announced on Monday that Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, seen here in January, would resign at the end of the year.
Because of the current problems, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said he would resign at the end of the year in a management review following the crisis.
Calhoun, as well as the chairman and head of its commercial airline business, are leaving.
This all comes after Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his pickup truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, seven years after he retired.
The 62-year-old was found in his pickup truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, seven years after retiring from a 32-year career at Boeing.
Barnett’s death occurred during a whistleblowing lawsuit, in which he alleged that under-pressure workers were deliberately putting substandard parts into airplanes on the assembly line.
Barnett had alleged that second-rate parts were literally removed from scrap bins before being installed on planes being built to avoid delays.
A 2017 review by the FAA confirmed some of its concerns and required Boeing to take action.
The 62-year-old was found in his pickup truck in a hotel parking lot in South Carolina, seven years after retiring from a 32-year career at Boeing.
He had just testified before Boeing lawyers in the case the week before his death, said his lawyer Brian Knowles.
Barnett’s job for 32 years was to oversee production standards for the company’s airplanes, standards he said were not met during his four years at the then-new plant in Charleston, from 2010 to 2014.
“The new leadership didn’t understand the processes,” Barnett told Corporate Crime Reporter in a 2019 interview about how bosses allegedly cut corners to get their then-state-of-the-art 7878s out on time.
Barnett claimed he alerted plant superiors to his concerns, but no action was ever taken. Boeing denied it, as well as his claims.
A 2017 review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) resolved some of Barnett’s qualms, including the finding that at least 53 “nonconforming” parts, as they put it, were out of place and considered lost.
