MOSCOW, July 8A United Airlines plane lost a landing gear wheel during takeoff at Los Angeles Airport on Monday, Bloomberg reported, citing an airline representative.
We are talking about a Boeing 757-200 aircraft that took off from Los Angeles at about 7.16 local time (17.16 Moscow time) and landed at the international airport of the American city of Denver at 10.10 am on Monday. There were 174 passengers and seven crew members on board the aircraft. According to the agency, no one was injured in the incident, and the tire from the lost wheel was found in Los Angeles.
“United Airlines Holdings said another Boeing aircraft lost one of its main landing gear wheels during takeoff on Monday,” the agency reported, citing an emailed statement from an airline spokesman.
In early March, NBC Los Angeles reported that a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 flying from San Francisco to Japan lost a tire during takeoff and was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles. The missing tire was found on the grounds of the San Francisco airport. In mid-March, Newsweek magazine reported that United Airlines planes had encountered technical problems 10 times in the previous two weeks.