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United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland. On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
United Air Lines Flight 629, registration N37559 and dubbed Mainliner Denver, was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft that was blown up on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Weld County , Colorado , 8 miles east of Longmont , Colorado , United States, at 7:03 p.m. local time , [ 1 ] [ 3 ] while ...
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 flight departed SFO on time and the push back, taxi, takeoff, and climb were normal. There were three pilots on the flight deck: Captain Christopher Borzu Behnam (57), who was the pilot monitoring, First Officer (FO) Paul Ayers (60), who was the pilot flying, and a jump seat rider, who was off-duty United Airlines 777 First Officer Ed Gagarin.
The crash occurred after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with American Airlines flight 5342 just before 9 p.m. local time as the plane was preparing to land at Reagan National Airport.
A United Airlines DC-6 crashed at MacArthur Airport during a training flight due to pilot error, killing the three crew. November 1, 1955 A time bomb exploded aboard United Airlines Flight 629, a DC-6 flying over Longmont, Colorado, killing all 44 people on board. A passenger's son was later trialed and convicted of placing the bomb on board.
The flight has since been rescheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. local time. Houston firefighters helped passengers evacuate, the agency wrote on X. No injuries were reported.
The diverted plane was a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 - different to the Boeing 737 Max 9 model, which made headlines recently after one of the planes, used for an Alaska Airlines flight, had a ...