A United Airlines flight that took off from San Francisco International Airport Friday morning landed in Oregon with a missing external panel, according to officials.

United says the missing panel wasn’t discovered until the plane landed safely in Medford and that pilots had no idea during the flight that something had happened.

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      9 months ago

      The tire falling off doesn’t feel like a Boeing thing. At least on smaller aircraft, it’s a pin that holds it on. It feels like a United maintenance issue

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      9 months ago

      I mean, something like 90% of large passenger aircraft in existence are either Airbus or Boeing, so you had a ~45% shot even without Boeings enshittification.

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      9 months ago

      Boeing is transportation’s Florida Man, Radicalized White Incel, and White Cop Shooting an Unarmed Black Person.