A United Airlines plane built by Boeing was grounded Friday after it was found to be missing a panel after it touched down following a flight. Pictured: The missing part on the 25-year-old Boeing 737-824
Boeing United Airlines flight LOSES a panel mid-air before landing in Oregon, the latest in a lengthy list of safety incidents for the embattled aviation giant
- The Boeing 737-824 touched down in Medford Airport despite the missing part
- Â No injuries were reported, Jackson County Airport Director Amber Judd said
- She reiterated the plane was not a new aircraft, unlike incidents seen recently
A United Airlines plane built by Boeing was grounded Friday after it was found to be missing a panel after it touched down following a flight.
The plane is a Boeing 737-824, and successfully touched down in Medford Airport in Oregon despite the missing part.
No injuries were reported, Jackson County Airport Director Amber Judd said, adding the flight had originated from San Francisco.
She reiterated the plane was not a new aircraft, unlike the slew of incidents seen in recent months. An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-MAX 9 lost a door mid-flight in January.
The incident – only the latest from the embattled manufacturer – occurred Monday, and is the sixth involving a Boeing plane in 10 days. Judd further clarified the part fell off midflight, as feds continue to look into Boeing’s production practices.
Jackson County Airport Director Amber Judd reiterated the plane was not a new aircraft, unlike the slew of incidents seen in recent months. An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-MAX 9 lost a door mid-flight in January, with several incident involving Boeing-made planes occurring since
‘It was not a MAX aircraft,’ Judd said following the Friday scare.
United Airlines, meanwhile, issued a statement, confirming that the 139 passengers and six crew members who had been on board were all safe.
It read: ‘This afternoon United flight 433 landed safely at its scheduled destination at Rogue Valley International/Medford Airport.
‘After the aircraft was parked at the gate, it was discovered to be missing an external panel.
‘Weâll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service.
‘We’ll also conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.’
United went on to reveal that it was the wing-to-body fairing that ripped off – a part is located on the underside of the aircraft where the wing meets the aircraft body.
The panel sits just adjacent to where the landing gear deploys, and serves as a protective shell between the wing and the fuselage.
According to the online flight tracker FlightAware, the flight took off from San Francisco International at 10:20am PDT, and landed in Oregon at 11:36am.
The same aircraft, tail number N26226, was supposed to embark on a flight from Medord to Denver later in the day – a trip that has since been postponed due to the panel blowout.
United brass acknowledged the delay in a statement to its website, saying: ‘We’re sorry for the delay. Our Maintenance team needs to service equipment on the exterior of your aircraft before we depart.
‘We’ll keep you updated as we get more information’.
The incident comes just three days after another incident, where a Boeing plane was forced to land due to hydraulic fluid spewing from its landing gear area. Now being investigated, the technical failure also occurred in midair on a United flight
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Meanwhile, ex Boeing Quality Manager John Barnett – who had been in the midst of a whistleblower retaliation suit against the manufacturer – was found dead from what police said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound Saturday, while meeting Boeing lawyers in South Carolina
Barnett was found dead inside his truck on Saturday in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Charleston, pictured above
The incident comes just three days after another incident, where a Boeing plane was forced to land due to hydraulic fluid spewing from its landing gear area. It was also a United Flight.
Also under investigation, the forced landing happened as the San Francisco-bound 777-300 embarked from Sydney, with fluid filmed leaking from its undercarriage.
It also comes less than a week after a former Boeing staffer was found dead by an apparent suicide, while doing depositions for a suit he filed against the firm alleging he witnessed second-rate parts being fitted on planes.
After the incident Monday – and another hours before that saw 50 passengers injured on the firm’s flagship 787-Dreamliner – Boeing lost more than $4billion overnight, after shares dropped more than 4 percent Tuesday morning.
The FAA has since revealed the firm failed 33 of 89 audits during an exam of Boeing’s 737 Max – a model it had been planning to update with the long delayed Max 10.
After the incident Monday – and the several before – United Airlines requested the firm halt work on the unreleased jets: an apparent sign of carriers’ diminishing faith… More @ Daily Mail
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The Offical 2010 Pirelli Calendar
Oh my fucking goodness… Here are Abbey Lee, Ana Beatriz Barros, Catherine McNeil, Daisy Lowe, Eniko Mihalik, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Gracie Carvalho, Lily Cole, Marloes Horst, Miranda Kerr, and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in all sort of undress the Pirelli 2010 Calendar.
All supermodels and all showing their topless tits and then some. You have seen bits and pieces of the 2010 Pirelli Calendar over the past few months on the Gutter Uncensored. Now here is the full and uncensored thing, featuring such crowd favorites as Miranda Kerr’s tits, Lily Cole’s tits, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s ass and Ana Beatriz Barros’ tits.
Praise the lord that the Italian tire company likes to photograph the world’s most beautiful women wearing no cloths. Who’s great idea was it to have a calender of all nude, or at the very least topless supermodels? Whoever he or she is at Pirelli & C. SpA, a Nobel Prize is fitting.
I don’t know what the hell this has to do with selling tires but I am not raising any question. But I think Michelin is going to have step things up to remain competitive.
Anyway, I would like to saying something before the naysayers start with the “they are too skinny” and the “their boobs are too small” or the much used “What happened to the artistc Pirelli Calendar of old? This is just vulgar, and quite frankly, not very creative… Very disappointing…” or the typical elitist “they are not natural at all.”
Hey, these chicks have nice tight little pussies. That is natural, and that is how it’s meant to be. Tight is good. Loose and sloppy is not so good, but some times still doable. So until you have a topless calender with at least 12 supermodels I don’t even want to hear it. And to those who say “fap fap fap fap fap,” you are welcome.
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Miranda May Kerr (born April 20, 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian model best known as one of the Victoria’s Secret Angels since mid-2007. She was the first Australian addition to the Victoria’s Secret campaign. and was the face of Australian fashion chain Portmans and David Jones Limited. Kerr entered modeling in the fashion industry in her early teens after winning a 1997 Australian nationwide model search hosted by Dolly magazine and Impulse fragrances.
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Daisy Rebecca Lowe (born January 27, 1989 in London, England) is an English fashion model who has modelled for editorial photo shoots and commercial advertising campaigns and has worked as a runway model. She is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, the singer/songwriter turned textile and fashion designer, and Gavin Rossdale, the front man for the band Bush.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born April 18, 1987 in Tavistock, Devon, England) is a British model. She is best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret. She appeared on the cover of Vogue, accompanied by models Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn, for the November 2008 issue.
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Marloes Horst (born March 8, 1989 in Holland) is a Dutch model. Previously signed with IMG, her most famous feature is her lips.She currently lives in New York and is signed with the Next Modeling Agency. She made her professional debut at the Prada show in Milan in 2008. Previous to her entry on the runway she appeared on several magazine covers such as Elle, Flair and Grazia. When she isn’t modeling Horst loves to surf and dance.
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Lily Cole (born May 19, 1988 in Torquay, England)is an English model and actress whose career was launched by a chance encounter in London. Cole has featured in several well known publications including cover appearances on V and four different language version of Vogue, as well as modelling for high street retailer Marks and Spencer and cosmetics chain Rimmel. She sparked a minor controversy in 2008 by appearing naked in a pictorial for Playboy magazine’s French edition.
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