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United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland. On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
The list of aircraft accidents and incidents caused by structural failures summarizes notable accidents and incidents such as the 1933 United Airlines Chesterton Crash due to a bombing and a 1964 B-52 test that landed after the vertical stabilizer broke off. Loss of structural integrity during flight can be caused by: faulty design
February 19 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 66, a Boeing 747-247F cargo aircraft, crashes near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing the entire crew of four. February 24 – A cargo door failure causes a piece of fuselage to detach from United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747-122, over the Pacific Ocean near Honolulu, Hawaii.
United Airlines Trip 4: near Hecla: Wyoming: Boeing 247D: The pilot is believed to lost spatial awareness and crashed into terrain. May 6, 1935 5 8 8 TWA Flight 6: near Atlanta: Missouri: Douglas DC-2: The aircraft crashed into terrain due to low visibility. February 23, 1934 8 0 0 1934 United Airlines Boeing 247 crash
United Airlines was pushed into the red by Boeing and its ongoing quality issues, the airline said Tuesday. The company took a $200 million hit in the first quarter after the Boeing 737 Max 9 was ...
c. 1,700 (including 92 on aircraft; 2,763 total combined with United Airlines Flight 175) c. 6,000–25,000 (combined with United Airlines Flight 175) [a] 0 American Airlines Flight 11: 1 World Trade Center (North Tower), New York City, New York: One of four flights involved in the September 11 attacks. 2. September 11, 2001
Continental Airlines, now United Airlines, switched its 757-300 order to the newer 737-800 in 2003, for example. Boeing stopped producing the plane in 2004 but didn't replace the program with ...
This summer saw near-record travel volumes, with airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration both facing staffing shortages that left many passengers stranded at airports due to delayed or ...