United Airlines said another of its planes lost its main landing gear wheel during takeoff, virtually repeating an incident in March that prompted a safety review of the company by the Federal Transportation Safety Administration.
No one was injured on United flight 1001, and the Boeing 757-200 took off from Los Angeles at around 7.15:10.10 a.m. local time yesterday and landed at the Denver airport at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m., according to a company spokesperson, as reported by Bloomberg.
The wheel was found in Los Angeles, United Airlines said, without elaborating.
The incident is very similar to the one in March, when the plane lost a wheel shortly after taking off from San Francisco on a flight to Osaka, due to which it had to make an emergency landing at the airport in Los Angeles, and then it was a Boeing 777-200.
No one was injured in the incident at the time, but video footage shows the moment the wheel fell and damaged vehicles in the parking lot.
Most often the responsible airline
The editor of the aviation portal "Tango Six" Petar Vojinović tells "Vreme" that since the incident happened without injuries, we can put it in the category of operational incidents.
"These are things that happen in the daily work of airlines," says Vojinović.
He adds that it is necessary to demarcate a distinctive connection between "Boeing" and its problems in recent times and similar events in the operational sense in the airline fleet.
"So, when 'Boeing' builds an aircraft and delivers it to any airline, including in this case to 'United Airlines', then the company is responsible for adequate maintenance of the aircraft and its systems, such as in this case the landing gear," says Vojinović.
In that case, he adds, and again very important in relation to what the investigation shows, the airline is almost always responsible, regardless of which plane it is.
"If the investigation shows that it is about inadequate maintenance or an omission made by the airline, the pilot is not responsible." It rarely happens that there is an inherent defect for which the manufacturer is responsible," he says.
The interlocutor of "Vremen" concludes that although "Boeing" is in the spotlight, it does not mean that they are always responsible for every technical defect, no matter how dramatic it may be.
It is also checked "Boeing 737"
After numerous reports of displacement of oxygen generators in the passenger service unit, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Monday that it is requiring an inspection of 2.600 Boeing 737 aircraft.
This malfunction could lead to the inability to provide passengers with additional oxygen during a pressure drop, Reuters reported.
The FAA also prohibits airlines from installing potentially defective parts.
Airlines must perform a general visual inspection and if necessary replace the oxygen generators with new or working oxygen generators and thermal pads with tapes, the agency said.
The US Justice Department last month demanded that the world's leading plane maker Boeing plead guilty to criminal charges after the company was found to have violated a 2021 deferred prosecution settlement for two plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 in which killed 346 people, informed sources told Reuters.
