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On February 13, 2018, around noon local time, a Boeing 777-222 [a] operating as United Airlines Flight 1175 (UA1175), experienced an in-flight separation of a fan blade in the No. 2 (right) engine while over the Pacific Ocean en route from San Francisco International Airport to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii. [1]
The plane, a Boeing 787-800, was flying in the Côte d'Ivoire's airspace when it experienced what United and the NTSB have both called "sudden aircraft movement." The flight then returned to Lagos ...
13 February 2018, United Airlines Flight 1175 A PW4077 fan blade failure caused significant engine damage to a Boeing 777-200 on descent into Honolulu from San Francisco. [14] Routine fan blade inspection in 2005 and 2010 had shown a crack in the blade's metal structure but insufficiently trained inspectors had confused it for a defect in the ...
This defect was not properly detected by a TAI inspection (NTSB photo) Thermal acoustic imaging (TAI) is a proprietary active thermographic inspection process developed by Pratt and Whitney (P&W) in 2005; TAI is a nondestructive testing (NDT) method to detect internal and external cracking of hollow core turbofan engine fan blades.
The NTSB cited "the flight crew’s failure to manage the airplane’s vertical flight path, air ... -The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday cited United Airlines crew failure in a ...
The NTSB says when the Jan. 29 collision between a passenger plane and helicopter occurred, the air traffic control tower had five persons on duty. ... "Typical over time can change based on the ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
The "major pieces" of the American Airlines plane and the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered, and will be transported to a "secure airport facility for further examination and documentation."