United Airways left its mark on San Francisco when certainly one of its flights took off Thursday … and virtually instantly misplaced certainly one of its tires, which got here crashing down on parked vehicles at SFO Airport.
Video captured the second the Boeing 777 took off certain for LAX with 249 passengers aboard — earlier than the jumbo jet’s touchdown gear retracted into the fuselage, the large tire flew free proper above an SFO worker car parking zone.
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Fortunately, nobody was injured on the bottom, however there was loads of injury to some automobiles.
As for the broken aircraft, United says it landed safely at LAX, primarily as a result of it is a 777, which has 6 tires on every of its 2 primary touchdown gear struts. The airline says it is designed to land safely with lacking or broken tires.
As soon as it was on the bottom, United moved all of the passengers to a brand new plane for the following leg of the flight … which is heading to Osaka Thursday night.
Whereas there have been no casualties from this incident, it is nonetheless regarding from the standpoint of it being one more concern with a Boeing plane. You will recall, the door blew off a Boeing 737, operated by Alaska Airways, 2 months in the past — resulting in a short lived grounding of all 737 Max 9s.
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Some ex-Boeing staff have come ahead, claiming the corporate has been reducing corners, safety-wise, in its manufacturing vegetation — with one former quality manager telling us on “TMZ Live” he would not put his family on a 737 Max 9.
