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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Elderberry on March 08, 2024, 05:49:04 pm
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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/ (https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-boeing-737-max-gear-collapse/)
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... four-year-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 ...
More likely an operational or maintenance issue rather than a design issue.
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The United Airlines CEO is more worried about what dress he’s going to wear today than keeping his planes in the air!!
https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1766520901112152328
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Well... Kinda good - If it's going to collapse, that's about the best time to do it... :whistle:
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When you look at the United Airlines maintenance jobs page, it's just what you'd expect. When your plane fireballs into the ground at 500 mph, you can relax knowing United is a leader in DEI, so it's worth it 🌈
https://twitter.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1766569379649769539
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Once is an event
Twice might be a coincidence.
Three times? A trend that damned well better be addressed.
Do something Butt Plug!!!!
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Once is an event
Twice might be a coincidence.
Three times? A trend that damned well better be addressed.
Do something Butt Plug!!!!
His job is addressing so called systemic racism
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On TOS someone wondered if it might be sabotage, interesting viewpoint.
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On TOS someone wondered if it might be sabotage, interesting viewpoint.
Generally, I don't point to malice when incompetence could be the problem, but it seems odd just one airline is having problems...
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Running off the end of the runway can do that.