One Mile at a Time by Ben Schlappig 3/8/2024
United Airlines isn’t having a great 24 hours when it comes to its fleet. Yesterday, a United Boeing 777 lost a wheel after takeoff, and today a United Boeing 737 had its gear collapse after landing.
In this post:
• United Boeing 737 MAX gear collapses after landing in Houston
• The odd part of this United Boeing 737 MAX incident
• Bottom line
This incident happened today (Friday, March 8, 2024), and involves United Airlines flight UA2477, scheduled to fly from Memphis (MEM) to Houston (IAH). The flight was operated by a four-year-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 with the registration code N27290.
The 81-minute flight was routine, and touched down in Houston on runway 27 at 7:58AM, well ahead of its scheduled 8:28AM arrival. Unfortunately things then quickly took a turn for the worse. The plane exited at the very end of the runway, but somehow ended up in the grass, with the left rear gear collapsing.
As of now, the order of events isn’t totally clear — we don’t know if the plane taxied into the grass and that caused the gear collapse, or if the gear collapsed and that caused the plane to end up in the grass.
There were no injuries, and passengers and crew ended up deplaning the aircraft by stairs. When you look at United’s flight status page for this flight, it shows as having arrived 24 minutes early, though the gate is listed as “HOLD.” Hah.
More:
https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-boeing-737-max-gear-collapse/
