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San Francisco Chronicle
4 days ago
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- San Francisco Chronicle
United flight from S.F. to Sydney diverted to Honolulu after midair emergency
A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Sydney was forced to divert to Honolulu early Sunday after the crew declared an in-flight emergency over the Pacific Ocean. Flight UA863, a Boeing 777-200ER, departed San Francisco International Airport at 1:31 a.m. local time with 202 passengers and 16 crew members on board. Nearly six hours into the trans-Pacific journey, while cruising at 32,000 feet, the crew issued a 'squawk 7700' — an emergency transponder code indicating a general distress situation. The aircraft, identified by tail number N78002, landed safely at Honolulu's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport at 4:26 a.m. local time, after six hours and 42 minutes in flight. United later canceled the flight but did not immediately provide details about the cause of the emergency. The incident comes less than a month after the same aircraft was involved in a separate event. United has not said whether the earlier incident is related to Sunday's diversion.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
The Headaches at Newark Airport Could Continue For A While
Since last week, Newark Liberty International Airport has experienced frequent delays and flight cancellations, affecting both inbound and outgoing travel. Over 500 flights were affected on Monday, according to FlightAware, and already Tuesday, there have been 44 canceled outgoing flights and over 200 flights impacted by the issues. Newark's problems stem from equipment failures, a shortage of air traffic control staffers and the closure of one of the facility's busiest runways. Right now, it looks like it might be a while before things get better. On the runway front, Jeff Goldman wrote Tuesday that Runway 4L-22R, which handles nearly 47% of the airport's flight activity, is closed until June 15 for renovation. The runway reopens next month, but from Sept. 1 through the end of the year, will be closed on weekends between 11 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Sunday. 'Due to the volume of flights arriving and departing EWR (the closure) will significantly affect carriers' ability to operate reliably and on time,' federal officials said last November. 'Absent increased scheduling flexibility during the construction period, the FAA anticipates a high likelihood of congestion, delays, and cancellations at EWR.' United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER wide body passenger aircraft spotted during take off, departing from Newark Liberty International Airport EWR serving New York Metropolitan area. The B777 airplane has the registration tail number N783UA and is powered by 2x Pratt & Whitney PW4090 jet engines. United Airlines with headquarters in Chicago is the largest airline in the world by destination and fleet size member of Star Alliance aviation alliance group. Newark, United States on November 2024 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto/Getty Images As for the equipment trouble, Galen Munroe, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, revealed Monday that back on April 28, a Philadelphia control center responsible for sorting flight traffic for Newark 'temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control,' and were 'unable to see, hear, or talk to them.' Obviously, that's incredibly alarming, and the aftereffects of the outage have also been devastating. Munroe said that a number of controllers from the Philadelphia operation have utilized their rights under the Federal Employees Compensation Act, which allows employees who are injured or involved in a traumatic event at work to take leave without penalty. As a result, Newark is short-staffed, and though the FAA has pledged to hire 2,000 new traffic controllers nationwide this year, those efforts aren't going to help the second-busiest airport in the New York area at the moment. "Keep in mind, this particular air traffic control facility has been chronically understaffed for years and without these controllers, it's now clear – and the FAA tells us – that Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said in a letter to customers last Friday. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - MAY 05: A monitor shows flight delays at Newark International Airport on May 05, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. Delays and cancellations at one of the nation's busiest airports have persisted for about a week, with these disruptions continuing into Monday morning. Air traffic control outages, runway construction, and an announcement by United Airlines that over 20% of FAA controllers at Newark walked off the job have all contributed to delays and cancellations. (Photo by)United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday a plan to "radically transform" air traffic control and fix a problem that has been brewing for decades. 'We're going to build a brand-new air traffic control system — from new telecom, to new radars, to new infrastructure. We're bringing on new air traffic controllers,' Duffy said. Duffy added that officials have slowed traffic down in Newark to help alleviate the congestion and make commuters "feel safe." 'When you have an incident like this, you want to make sure that people are safe,' Duffy said. 'And so, you just have less departures out of the airport until we feel comfortable and safe that the system isn't going to go down again.'
Yahoo
20-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Malaysian government authorizes new search for missing flight MH370
March 20 (UPI) -- Malaysia's government Wednesday authorized a new search for flight MH370 which went down in March 2014 and was never found. Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will conduct the search for the Malaysian Airlines plane believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said in a Wednesday statement that government Cabinet ministers approved the new search on "no-fund, no fee" terms. "The government is committed to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of the passengers of flight MH370," Loke said in a statement. Ocean Infinity, with operations in the United States and Britain, will be paid $70 million only if flight wreckage is found. The search is expected to get underway in coming months at a new 5,791 square-mile site. "This Cabinet decision allows the seabed search operation to commence to locate the wreckage of flight MH370 at a new location estimated to be 15,000 square kilometers in the Southern Indian Ocean based the principle of 'no find, no fee,'" The Malaysian Transport Ministry said. Malaysia agreed in principle to the renewed search in December. It carried out a two-year search ending in 2017 at a cost of $150 million but that search failed to locate the wreckage. MH370 had 239 people aboard when the Boeing 777-200ER airliner vanished less than an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur as it headed to Beijing. The new search will initially last for 18 months. A 2018 investigation into possible causes for the jet's crash found that controls on the aircraft were likely deliberately adjusted to fly off the planned flight path, but investigators did not determine why that was done.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
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- Yahoo
Ocean Infinity leads new search for MH370 in Indian Ocean
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 — A British-led mission to find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has resumed in what is anticipated to be the final search for the plane that disappeared more than a decade ago. According to various news reports, marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity's deep-water support vessel, Armada 7806, arrived at a new search area in the Indian Ocean, about 1,200 miles off Perth, Australia, over the weekend. The vessel is now scouring the seabed in a six-week operation that will cover 15,000 square kilometres of high-priority zones where debris from the missing Boeing 777-200ER is believed to be located, according to The Telegraph. The underwater autonomous vehicles (AUVs) and remote recovery vehicles are being operated via satellite link from Ocean Infinity's control centre in Southampton, England, the report said. Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, vanished on March 8, 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) en route to Beijing. Despite the largest search effort in aviation history, which covered over 46,000 square miles of the southern Indian Ocean, only a few fragments of the aircraft have been found, scattered on beaches thousands of miles apart. The new mission follows a statement from the Malaysian government last December, expressing its willingness to support renewed efforts to locate the aircraft. Ocean Infinity has said it hopes to finally resolve one of aviation's greatest mysteries.
