A Boeing 737 plane suffered a problem with one of its wings Friday morning, forcing it to make an emergency landing just minutes after takeoff, the latest failure by the aerospace giant to compromise safety.
The United Airlines flight, carrying 50 passengers, had just departed from Fukuoka Airport in southern Japan around 11:45 a.m. when the wing abnormality surfaced. According to The Sun.
The plane quickly turned around and headed back, the paper said.
No one was injured, but police are investigating to determine what happened.
The Sun reported that the runway remained closed for some time after landing while the crew carried out routine safety checks.
The gruesome abrasions are the latest in a series of high-profile near-disasters to hit Boeing Co. since the door of an Alaska Airlines flight flew off mid-flight in January. The aircraft is being examined under a microscope.
And the situation doesn’t seem to be improving, with four Boeing planes reporting problems in the past three days alone.
Terrified passengers jumped to the ground at Dakar airport after a Senegalese 737 burst into flames and skidded off the runway early Thursday morning.
Passengers were evacuated, but 15 people were injured, four of them seriously.
On the same day, around 200 people were evacuated when a Corendon Airlines flight burst a tire during landing in Alanya, Turkey. The Independent reported.
The day before, a Boeing 763 cargo plane owned by FedEx crashed nose-first while on a flight from Paris to Istanbul.
A shower of sparks was seen as the huge aircraft crashed into the concrete.
Meanwhile, several other dramatic incidents involving Boeing aircraft have been reported in the past five months.
Last month, a video was captured of a Lufthansa plane bouncing along a Los Angeles runway before the pilot landed and aborted the rough landing. KABC reported.
