A tire fell off of a United Airlines flight in San Francisco on Thursday afternoon and damaged multiple cars in a nearby parking lot.
United Flight 35, which was supposed to be headed to Japan, landed safely in Los Angeles after the incident, according to a local NBC News affiliate. The Boeing 777-200 has six tires on its two sets of rear landing gear.
There were 249 people on board, including passengers, pilots, and flight attendants.
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here is video of a tire falling off a united flight today at SFO
this comes one month after a wheel fell off a Delta plane in atlanta just prior to takeoff pic.twitter.com/OrednBxQ7g
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) March 7, 2024
Additional footage of car damage pic.twitter.com/ReK06dcFnp
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) March 7, 2024
This is the second major incident from just this week that the airline has had to deal with.
A United Airlines flight that took off from…
