Posted on 03/29/2024 7:00:47 AM PDT by libh8er
DENVER (KDVR) — A United flight diverted to Denver after crews reported an issue with an engine.
United Airlines confirmed to FOX31 that a flight from San Francisco to Paris had to land at Denver International Airport Thursday evening.
Crew members on the Boeing 777-200 reported having an issue with one engine. Even though the issues were reported, United said the flight did not declare an emergency landing, but emergency services were standing by for the plane’s arrival as a precaution.
United said the flight landed safely, and all 273 passengers and 12 crew members deplaned.
Since the flight was canceled upon arrival in Denver, passengers are still waiting for their next available flight to Paris. United said it is working with customers to find flight options on Friday.
This isn’t the first United flight that had to be diverted to Denver mid-trip this year.
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Aviation ping.
In February my sister was on a 737 for flight from BWI to Denver and they lost an engine midway through the flight. Never found out what happened, and Flightradar 24 never indicated a problem.
The affirmative action promotion and recruiting in the armed services is having an effect upon the civilians recruited for the airline’s aircraft maintenance? Is there a connection?
The scariest thing about this is that if the DEI hires are causing these failures, political considerations will prevent anything being done to correct it. People will continue to be put at risk, and eventually dying, as blood sacrifices to wokeness.
That sort of thing has been going on for many years. It’s just now being reported because of the Boeing issues. I have been on at least one flight where it happened and it never made news.
Will the uneducated here stop with the Boeing stuff, every time a Boeing is in the news. As has been said, they don’t build the engines. It’s not their fault a wheel came off a plane that is been in service for 10 or 15 years. In my business we have worked with many commercial pilots over the years and hands down, they all tell me they would much rather fly a Boeing than an Airbus. Boeing designs their planes to be flown by the pilot, and the pilot to be able to override the computers in an emergency. Airbus designs their planes to be flown by THIRD WORLD POORLY TRAINED PILOTS, with the computer flying the plane and making the decisions even in the time of the emergency. I have had multiple pilots tell me that. In regards to what happened with the 737Max crashes, which were a terrible tragedy of course, the third world pilots tried to switch the auto stall function back on instead of flying the plane manually after the first warning! I have first hand knowledge of the pilot who was part of the simulator testing/recreating what happened with the planes. All he did was SWITCH OFF the auto stall function, when the plane started to have an issue, took over flying the plane himself and stabilized the plane. Do you know what the FAA guy said? WHY DID YOU SWITCH THAT OFF? Well, as a WELL TRAINED pilot, you take over and fly the plane, not think the computer is smarter than you are all the time. I REST MY CASE.
You need to differentiate between the older 737-XXX and the 737-Max lines, they’re fundamentally dissimilar. The older 737 is a very good aircraft, and astonishingly reliable. The -Max not so much.
It’s a quality article and should be read by all.
I read it some time ago and it has stuck with me.
One thing many don’t understand is how intertwined and interdependent systems are. A single failure can become a cascading failure.
Have to wonder if all these “breakdowns” aren’t orchestrated in an effort to usher in new electric planes to “replace the dangerous fuel operated ones”
P4obsbly not, but knowing the depravity of the left, who knows?
San Fran to Paris? Good thing they were only as far as Denver. It could have really sucked if that happened over the North Atlantic.
Maintenance is pathetic. Why is Boeing always blamed? 99% of the time it is a Maintenance issue, which the carrier hates to pay for. But with a helpful, ignorant media, Boeing can always be blamed.
Boeing + United again...
I’ve pointed this out to my management as their bosses think they can get away with hiring contractors cheap who only need to “stay in their lanes”, are only familiar with one or two parts of the whole and are not exposed to or can comprehend the entire system. And, too many of them are DEI. So we’re basically screwed and I’m counting the days until retirement.
Yesterday, flew SouthWest two 737’s from Reno to Vegas to Birmingham, AL. No problems. Good flights.
one was an 800 series and Reno to Vegas was a Max.
A few weeks ago I made it from SFO to Honolulu in a 737MAX9, so I won’t bother playing any lotteries any time soon.
That is a very similar predicament to workers who understand systems.
It’s similar for me, but I am not counting days to retirement…
There will be a cascading failure event in our lifetimes.
General Electric or Rolls Royce makes the engines for Boeing planes.
Yes and, just as likely, these incidents will be used as a justification for more AI in our lives. If their DEI hires cannot do the building and maintaining properly, they will need an AI bot looking over their shoulder to *help*.
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