Never again…
A United Airlines Boeing 777-300 leaked fuel mid-air on Monday and was forced to make an emergency landing, marking the airline’s fifth reported accident in just over a week.
United Airlines Flight 830 took off for a 14-hour journey from Sydney to San Francisco, but just two hours into departure, the plane had to be reoriented due to “maintenance issues,” ABC 7 reported. report.
A statement from the airline said all 183 passengers and crew “landed safely and passengers disembarked normally at their gates.”
No injuries were reported.
Monday’s accident was the latest in a series of accidents onboard Boeing planes.
On March 4, a Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas just minutes into its flight after one of its jet engines burst into flames.
Shocking video of the ordeal showed flames spewing from the engine, which became so hot it appeared almost white against the night sky.
The plane was only “approximately 15 minutes” into its two-hour journey to Fort Myers, Florida, when the incident occurred. No one was injured in the terrifying ordeal.
On March 7, a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Japan lost one of its Boeing 777-20’s landing gears after takeoff, forcing the flight to divert to Los Angeles International Airport.
Shocking footage shows the plane losing one of its six tires on its left side during its ascent.
All 235 passengers, 10 flight attendants, and four pilots landed safely at LAX.
The next day, United Flight 821 took off from San Francisco International Airport bound for Mexico City, but was quickly diverted to Los Angeles “due to an issue with the aircraft’s hydraulic system.”
The Airbus 320’s hydraulic system experienced a problem with one of its three hydraulic units. Aircraft are equipped with multiple systems for redundancy.
105 passengers and five crew members were evacuated and customers had to be flown to their destinations on new aircraft.
On the same day, a United Airlines plane fell off the runway at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, forcing the evacuation of passengers.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the Boeing 737 MAX 8, arriving from Memphis, “tumbled onto the grass while exiting the taxiway around 8 a.m.”
None of the 160 passengers and six crew members were injured.
Boeing said in a memo to employees Tuesday that it is adding weekly compliance checks and additional equipment audits to all work areas on its 737 planes to help mitigate quality issues.
“Our team is working to simplify and streamline processes and address the committee’s recommendations,” the memo said.
“We will not hesitate to shut down production lines or hold planes in place.”
The Federal Aviation Administration has found dozens of problems throughout the production process of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets. These include a mechanic at one of its major suppliers using hotel key cards and dishwashing detergent as surrogate tools to test compatibility.
The FAA found “unacceptable” quality control issues in an audit of Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems that began after a 737 MAX 9 door plug flew off at an altitude of 16,000 feet on January 5. discovered.
One of those failures involved installing an airplane door plug.
Especially since on Saturday, John Barnett, a former quality inspector of 30 years, was found dead of a “self-inflicted” gunshot wound inside his truck in a South Carolina hotel parking lot. Pressure on the company continues to mount.
The engineer, who retired in 2017, was scheduled to give further testimony in court in a whistleblower case against the company, but did not show up.
