United-operated Boeing 737 MAX rolls off Houston runway, says FAA

[Wicked Blue]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - A United Airlines-operated (UAL.O) Boeing 737 MAX rolled onto the grass and off the runway at George Bush Airport in Houston early on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.

The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA will investigate. The 160 passengers and six crew were not injured. They left the plane and were bused to the terminal, the FAA and United said. The plane had departed from Memphis.

United said it will move the aircraft from the taxiway as soon as it is able and will "work with the NTSB, FAA and Boeing to understand what happened."

This is the third incident this week involving a United Boeing airplane. Boeing and United shares were both down 1% on Friday.

Read more: https://whttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/united-operated-boeing-737-rolls-off-houston-runway-passengers-deplaned-says-faa-2024-03-08/

[Aristus]

1. I remember when I was a kid, my Dad told me he would only ever fly on 737's.

Because of their superior safety record.

What a difference forty years make.

[turbinetree]

2. When you taxi an airplane you use your right knee as a guide on the center or taxi / runway line

which in turn, pardon the pun, keeps the nose gear and the aircraft in the middle of the taxi and the runway line for the above mentioned taxi and runway center lines and your left hand on the tiller wheel to taxi for any Boeing airplane ...............someone got distracted.......in my humble opinion........