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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will examine how a United Airways (NASDAQ:UAL) Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737-800 plane misplaced an exterior panel earlier than touchdown safely in Oregon on Friday.
United Airways flight 433 – a Boeing 737-800 carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew – landed safely on Friday at its scheduled vacation spot at Rogue Valley Worldwide Medford Airport in Oregon after departing from San Francisco, the FAA and the airline stated.
The FAA stated that an inspection after touchdown revealed a lacking panel, and that it’ll examine the incident.
“After the plane was parked on the gate, it was found to be lacking an exterior panel,” United Airways (UAL) advised Looking for Alpha in an emailed assertion, including that the plane had not referred to as in an emergency to Medford Airport “as there was no indication of the injury throughout flight.”
“We’ll conduct a radical examination of the airplane and carry out all of the wanted repairs earlier than it returns to service. We’ll additionally conduct an investigation to higher perceive how this injury occurred,” United Airways (UAL) added.
Boeing (BA) didn’t remark, directing inquiries to United Airways (UAL) “for details about their fleet and operations.” In response to information from Aviation Flights group, the airplane was 25 years and three months previous, having been inbuilt December 1998.
Boeing (BA) has been underneath the highlight amid a continued fallout from an accident involving a blown door plug on an Alaska Airways (ALK) flight in early January. Since that occasion, the highest planemaker’s shares have taken a hammering, whereas subsequent aviation incidents have come underneath shut scrutiny.
