United Airlines Flight 1175
2018 aircraft incident over the Pacific Ocean
United Airlines Flight 1175
On February 13, 2018, around noon local time, a Boeing 777 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. During level cruise flight shortly before beginning a descent from flight level 360 (roughly 36,000 feet or 11,000 meters), and about 120 miles (100 nmi; 190 km) from the destination, the flight crew heard a loud bang, followed by a violent shaking of the airplane, followed by warnings of a compressor stall. The flight crew shut down the failed engine, declared an emergency, and began a drift-down descent, proceeding direct to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport where they made a single-engine landing without further incident at 12:37 local time. There were no reported injuries to the 378 passengers and crew on board and the airplane damage was classified...
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