This week:
- United Airlines – engine caught fire in flight
- United Airlines – B777 dropped a tire, departing SFO. The tire destroyed a Tesla Model 3 parked in an airport employee lot. United plane drops tire, smashing cars, as it departs SFO. Jet lands safely at LAX (yahoo.com)
- United Airlines – B737 MAX – landing gear collapsed. United Boeing 737 Max veers OFF the runway into the grass ‘after gear collapse’ at Houston airport: FAA launches new probe after litany of safety issues | Daily Mail Online
- Alaska Airlines – B737 cargo door popped open, apparently upon landing at PDX. Alaska Airlines flight arrives at PDX gate with open cargo door (koin.com)
- Good grief – another United plane: United flight 821 headed to Mexico City from SFO makes emergency landing at LAX due to hydraulic failure: officials this one an Airbus.
That looks a lot like last summer’s B737 landing gear collapse at SNA. I had departed that airport, on an Alaska flight, just a few hours earlier. NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1288 Incident – ARFFWG | ARFF Working Group
Are these Boeing or airline problems? Both?
