United Airlines planes on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport on 30 November 2021. Stocks in the travel and airline industry have fallen as fears grow over the spread and severity of the Omicron Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa. (Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty Images) No one was injured on United flight 1001, a Boeing 757-200 that took off from Los Angeles about 7:16 a.m. local time and landed at Denver International Airport at 10:10 a.m., a United spokesman said in an email.
The tire was found in Los Angeles, United said, without providing details. There have been no reported injuries among people on the ground or the 174 passengers and seven crew on the plane, it said.
The incident is eerily similar to a United flight in March that lost a wheel shortly after taking off from San Francisco on a flight to Osaka, Japan. The Boeing 777-200, with 249 people on board, diverted to Los Angeles International Airport where it landed safely. No one was injured, but videos on X.com, formerly Twitter, by RadarBox captured the moment the wheel fell. It damaged vehicles in a parking lot.
The Federal Aviation Administration began a broad safety review of the airline after a series of headline-grabbing incidents over several weeks, including the earlier lost wheel, an aircraft running off a Houston runway and a fuselage piece also coming loose in flight. Last month, a United plane returned to a Connecticut airport after losing part of a liner from inside an engine cover.
United said it’s investigating the Monday incident.