A Boeing 737-800 plane on an airport in Japan (illustrative image), photo: Koji Nakayama / AP / Profimedia Images
The US airline United Airlines announced on Friday that two people suffered light injuries after a flight to Tokyo with CEBU, in the Philippines, has made an emergency landing due to a possible fire in the aircraft, Reuters reports.
Flight 32 of United, a Boeing 737-800 with 135 passengers and seven crew members, was diverted to Kansai International Airport in Osaka after taking off at Narita Airport near Tokyo.
All passengers and crew members on the plane were evacuated through the emergency slides, and the two injured people were transported to the hospital, United said.
The airline added that a preliminary technical check did not indicate the existence of a fire at the aircraft.
Reuters failed to get in touch, outside the usual work program, with representatives of Kansai Airport, Police and Local Firefighters, as well as with the Ministry of Transport.
Continue the wave of incidents in which Boeing aircraft are involved
The incident takes place after at the end of August a Boeing 777 aircraft aircraft, which took off from London to Beijing, with 265 people, carried out an unpardoned landing in Siberia due to an engine problem.
Another Boeing plane, model 737-800 operated by the Russian S7 company, returned to the airport where he took off at the end of July. The Russian authorities did not offer details about the problems encountered by the aircraft that had taken off from the Novosibirsk destination.
The Boeing reputation has been strongly hit by a series of safety incidents that took place from January 2024, eventually leading to the resignation of the company's executive director.
The American Congress has also initiated an investigation into the safety practices of the aircraft manufacturer.
These problems were exacerbated by the collapse on June 12 of a Boeing 787-8 “Dreamliner” in the city of Ahmedabad in western India in one of the worst air accidents in recent decades. The accident marked the first air accident with victims in which a “Dreamliner” Boeing aircraft, the aircraft manufacturer's aircraft, was ever involved.
