United Airlines Holdings Inc. said one other Boeing plane lost its essential landing gear wheel during takeoff on Monday, a near repeat of an incident in March, which helped prompt federal authorities to initiate a security review of the aircraft carrier.
No one was injured on United Flight 1001, a United spokesman said in an email. The Boeing 757-200, which took off from Los Angeles at 7:16 a.m. local time and landed at Denver International Airport at 10:10 a.m.,
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was investigating the incident.
The wheel was present in Los Angeles, United said, but didn’t provide further details. There were no reports of injuries among the many people on the bottom or the 174 passengers and 7 crew members on the plane, it said. There are 4 wheels on each of the plane’s two essential landing gears.
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The incident is eerily just like a United flight in March that lost a wheel shortly after takeoff from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan. The Boeing 777-200, with 249 people on board, was diverted to Los Angeles International Airport, where it landed safely. No one was injured, but Videos on X.com (formerly Twitter) by RadarBox captured the moment the bike fell over, damaging vehicles in a car parking zone.
The FAA began a comprehensive security check the airline after a series of headline-grabbing incidents over several weeks, including the previously lost wheel, an aircraft skidding off a runway in Houston and a fuselage section coming loose in flight.
Last month, a United plane returned to a Connecticut airport after Loss of a part of a liner from inside an engine cover. And on Sunday, a United plane certain for Guam returned to Nagoya International Airport in Japan after a system malfunction was detected, Kyodo News reported. There were no injuries among the many 44 passengers and 6 crew members.
United said the most recent incident was also being investigated.
