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The United Airways emblem is displayed at a check-in space at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) on January 8, 2024.
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A United Airways flight from San Francisco to Mexico Metropolis was diverted to Los Angeles Friday after a difficulty with the aircraft’s hydraulic system, the airline stated. It was the service’s fourth emergency in per week, together with a tire falling off one flight and an engine catching fireplace on one other.
The Airbus 320, carrying 105 passengers and 5 crew members, landed safely and everybody disembarked at a gate, in keeping with United and the Federal Aviation Administration. Clients have been flown to Mexico Metropolis Worldwide Airport on a distinct plane, in keeping with the airline.
The Airbus 320 is provided with three hydraulic programs for “redundancy functions” and preliminary data confirmed the problem affected solely a type of programs, in keeping with United.
The FAA stated it’ll examine the incident.
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Friday’s diverted flight was United’s fourth emergency in per week, together with an engine that ingested bubblewrap and caught fireplace midair on Monday, one other flight shedding a tire after takeoff on Thursday, and one other plane skidding off a runway right into a grassy space on Friday.
United Airways stated in an announcement that “every of those occasions is distinct and unrelated to at least one one other.”
“We take each security occasion significantly and can examine every of the incidents that occurred this week to grasp what occurred and be taught from them,” United stated. “A lot of this work is performed along with the producers, the FAA, and the NTSB in addition to with the producers of particular person parts … Security is our prime precedence, and we’ll proceed to do the whole lot we will to maintain our prospects and workers secure.”
CNN’s Ray Sanchez contributed to this report.