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The aircraft involved, registered as N772UA, [13] is a Boeing 777-222, the United Airlines-specific variant of the original 777-200 series. [13] It was built in November 1994 ( c/n 26930/Line no.5) [ 15 ] and delivered to United in September 1995.
United said at the time that the Boeing 777-200 has “six tires on each of its two main landing gear struts” and is “designed to land safely with missing or damaged tires.”
On 17 January 2008, the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft operating the flight (registered as G-YMMM) crashed-landed short of the runway at Heathrow. [1] [2] [3] Of the 152 people on board, no fatalities resulted, but 47 people were injured, 1 of them seriously. [4] The aircraft was written off, becoming the first hull loss of a Boeing 777. [5] [6]
The Boeing 777-28EER involved, [a] MSN 29171, registered as HL7742, [4] was powered by two Pratt and Whitney PW4090 engines. [5] [6] The aircraft was manufactured in 2006 and was delivered to Asiana Airlines on March 7, 2006. [7] At the time of the accident, the plane had accumulated 37,120 flight hours and 5,388 takeoff-and-landing cycles. [1 ...
Here's a timeline of the company's mounting problems. Katie Mather. ... a Boeing 777-200 loses a wheel during takeoff from San Francisco and a Boeing 737 skids off the runway after landing in Houston.
A British Airways Boeing 777 did a U-turn after flying about 2,000 miles towards Costa Rica and took passengers back to London.
British Airways Flight 2276 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Las Vegas, Nevada, to London, England.On 8 September 2015, the Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight suffered an uncontained engine failure and fire in the left GE90 engine during take-off from Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, prompting an aborted take-off and the evacuation of all passengers and crew.
The 777 has been a big success for Boeing since it began service in 1995, and it remains the best selling wide-body aircraft. The 777X would provide airlines with another version of the plane, in ...