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A United Airlines flight departing from Los Angeles lost a tire during takeoff Monday, its second Boeing aircraft to have lost a tire in four months.
The Boeing 757-200 departed Los Angeles International Airport around 7:16 a.m. and continued to its destination at Denver International Airport even after losing the tire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane landed safely around 10:10 a.m. with no reported injuries on the aircraft or on the ground, United Airlines said in a statement.
“The wheel has been recovered in Los Angeles, and we are investigating what caused this event,” United said. The company did not say which tire on the aircraft was lost.
The plane had 174 passengers and seven crew members on board, according to United.
United and FAA said they would investigate what caused the tire to fall.
This is the second incident involving a tire falling from a United aircraft mid-air in four months.
In March, a Japan-bound United flight lost one of its main landing tires seconds after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport. The tire landed in an employee parking lot and damaged several vehicles. The Boeing 777, which carried 235 passengers and 14 crew members, made an emergency landing at LAX and was towed away with no reported injuries.
United did not respond to an inquiry about whether the causes for the incidents were potentially the same.
In January, a Boeing 757 operated by Delta Air Lines lost its nose wheel while preparing for takeoff at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Delta said a nose gear tire and rim had come loose and then rolled down a hill. Passengers had to exit the plane, but no one was injured.
Concerns surrounding the safety of Boeing planes has been circulating for years, particularly after two crashes of its 737 Max jets killed 346 people in October 2018 and March 2019. Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge over the deadly crashes Monday, avoiding a criminal trial.
A Louisiana man accused of fatally stabbing a woman during a date was arrested after his bike got a flat tire, deputies say.
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A man’s call for help for a flat bike tire ended with his arrest in a woman’s stabbing death, Louisiana deputies told news outlets.
Christopher Jerome Wilson, 25, was arrested May 1, nearly a week after Carol Allen was found stabbed to death inside her car, WGNO reported, citing the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office.
She was taken to a hospital and later died, according to the station.
McClatchy News reached out to the sheriff’s office for more information May 3 and was awaiting a response.
Investigators said Wilson and Allen, 31, met up for a date in Hammond on April 27, Nola.com reported. While they were together, Wilson attacked the mom of four and tried to steal her car, authorities told Nola.com.
“There was a struggle, and she was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife,” Tangipahoa Chief Jimmy Travis told WWL-TV. He said Allen was able to call 911 after she was attacked.
Wilson had fled by the time authorities arrived, according to Nola.com
On May 1, he called deputies seeking roadside assistance because one of his bike tires was low on air, WWL-TV reported, citing Travis. Authorities ran Wilson’s information and saw he was wanted on a warrant on an unrelated charge of domestic battery, according to the station.
Wilson was charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery in Allen’s killing, WGNO reported.
He remained in custody at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail as of May 3, online records show, and no attorney information was available.
Tangipahoa Parish is about a 70-mile drive northwest of downtown New Orleans.
Tanasia is a national Real-Time reporter based in Atlanta covering news across Georgia, Mississippi and the Southeast. Her sub-beat is retail and consumer news. She’s an alumna of Kennesaw State University and joined McClatchy in 2020.
