Another United Flight Makes Emergency Landing After ‘Maintenance Issue’
A United Airlines flight heading to San Francisco from Australia turned back and made an emergency landing Monday after the aircraft experienced what the carrier called a “maintenance issue.”
The Boeing 777-300 was around two hours into the almost 14-hour journey when it returned to Sydney, the airline said. The episode is just the latest in a string of high-profile incidents involving United in recent weeks that have generated unsettling headlines about planes veering off runways, losing tires, and flames belching out of engines.
Video shared online by New York Aviation purportedly of flight 830’s takeoff appears to show some kind of fluid spewing out of the plane close to its rear right landing gear. Later, as the aircraft arrives back in Sydney and is met by firefighters, smoke seems to be pouring from the same area of the jet.