{"id":45968,"date":"2024-03-16T03:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/united-airlines-flight-missing-an-external-panel-lands-safely\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T03:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:52:25","slug":"united-airlines-flight-missing-an-external-panel-lands-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/united-airlines-flight-missing-an-external-panel-lands-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Flight Missing an External Panel Lands Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A United Airlines flight that took off on Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon missing an external panel, the Federal Aviation Administration said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The panel was found to be missing after the plane, a Boeing 737-800, landed safely at its scheduled destination at Rogue Valley International Medford Airport in Oregon and parked at a gate, United Airlines said in a statement. It was unclear when or how the panel went missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the airline, there was no indication of any damage to the plane during the flight, and the aircraft did not declare an emergency on its way to the Medford airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service,\u201d the airline said. \u201cWe\u2019ll also conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plane was carrying 139 passengers and a crew of six, according to United Airlines. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The plane has been in service for more than 25 years, and it was from a previous generation of 737 aircraft, according to Airfleets.net, a website that tracks aircraft information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The airport briefly paused operations to inspect the runway, and resumed flights after no debris was found on the airfield, Amber Judd, the director of the Medford airport, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Boeing referred questions about the flight to United Airlines. The F.A.A. said it planned to investigate the episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The discovery of the missing panel on Friday came as Boeing has faced heavy scrutiny in recent weeks after a door-sized section blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 Alaska Airlines flight in January just minutes after it had taken off from Portland, Ore. There were no major injuries during the flight, but the frightening episode, which was recorded on video, prompted government officials to look into quality control at Boeing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the January flight, the F.A.A. began a six-week audit of Boeing, which found \u201cmultiple instances\u201d in which the plane maker had failed to follow through with quality-control requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since then, there have been a number of issues with flights on Boeing aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On March 8, a United Airlines flight that had landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston rolled into the grass as the plane, a Boeing 737, exited onto the taxiway, according to the F.A.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In February, a Madrid-bound American Airlines flight, a Boeing 777, diverted to Boston Logan International Airport with a cracked windshield shortly after it had departed from Kennedy International Airport in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight that took off on Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon missing an external panel, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The panel was found to be missing after the plane, a Boeing 737-800, landed safely at its scheduled destination at Rogue Valley International Medford Airport in Oregon and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}