United Airlines' Boeing 787-8 experiences mid-air scare in US after left engine failure, pilots declare 'Mayday'
A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, operated by United Airlines, experienced a mid-air scare in the US last week owing to a critical engine failure, media reports said.
The Munich-bound United Airlines Flight UA108 was flying out of Washington Dulles Airport on its scheduled transatlantic journey on July 25, when its left engine failed.
The incident prompted the crew to declare a "MAYDAY".
The engine malfunction was reported shortly after the flight departed from Washington Dulles and reached an altitude of 5,000 feet.
The crew declared an emergency soon and worked closely with air traffic controllers to ensure a safe emergency landing.
According to data from FlightAware, the aircraft remained airbound for 2 hours and 38 minutes, circling northwest of Washington in a holding pattern to safely dump fuel before landing back at Washington Dulles Airport.
During this time, the United Airlines pilots requested air traffic controllers (ATC) for fuel dumping while maintaining an altitude of 6,000 feet to manage the plane's weight and entered a holding pattern northwest of Washington, a report by aviationa2z said.
After landing, the Boeing aircraft could not move on its own and had to be towed off the runway due to the disabled left engine.
It remained grounded at Washington Dulles Airport as of Monday.
There were no injuries in the incident, and the technical malfunction is expected to be investigated further.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
