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United's Boeing 737 Max Jet Veers Off Runway In Houston, Marking Third Incident In Week
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThe third incident occurred on Friday morning, as United Flight 2477, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 160 passengers and six crew members, skidded off the taxiway and into a grassy area after landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
Flight 2477's incident comes in the wake of two other incidents:
On Thursday, United Airlines Flight 35, a Boeing 777-200 en route to Osaka from San Francisco, lost a wheel shortly after departure,
and on Wednesday, Flight 1118, a Boeing 737 flying from Houston to Fort Myers, encountered an engine fire mid-flight.
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One day after a United Airlines' Boeing 737 from Houston to Fort Myers experienced a dramatic mid-flight engine fire, a United jet heading to Japan from San Francisco lost a tire during takeoff that fell from the sky and crushed vehicles.
United Airlines Flight 35, an Oska-bound Boeing 777-200 with 249 souls on board, experienced a landing gear malfunction that caused a tire to separate from the widebody jet. The tire fell several hundred feet and then crushed vehicles in a parking lot at San Francisco International Airport.
Flight tracking website RadarBox reposted a video on X that captured the moment the tire separated from the plane's landing gear.
Up close photos of @United Flight 2477 (Boeing 737 MAX 8) that left the runway and came to a stop in grass at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston. @KPRC2 has learned no one was injured.
— Gage Goulding - KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) March 8, 2024
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