Passenger sees "wing coming apart" on United flight from San Francisco to Boston; flight forced to land in Denver
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A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane’s wing.

  • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    The entire field of reliability-centered maintenance comes right out of aircraft maintenance in the 60s and 70s, term itself was penned by people working for united. It’s responsible for massive improvements in aircraft reliability, there’s a reason that you can point out specific events like this in the modern era.

    On a different note, a lot of the guys I worked with out of uni were all aircraft mechanics who had served in the air force.