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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 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents, bridge failures, and railroad accidents. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
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Bobbie R. Allen (July 26, 1922 – November 17, 1972) was a U.S. Government Official, Air Safety Investigator and Naval Aviator. [1] As Director of the Bureau of Aviation Safety at the Civil Aeronautics Board – later the National Transportation Safety Board – Allen spearheaded the use of flight data recorders and laid the groundwork for what would become the Aviation Safety Reporting System.