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Dozens of people aboard a United airlines A flight from Africa to the United States has been injured, including six seriously, according to the Federal Authority for Airports in Nigeria (FAAN).
That of the airline Boeing 787-800 From Lagos, Nigeria, to Washington, DC, Thursday “returned to Lagos after a technical problem and an unexpected plane movement,” United Business by email told Fox.
After landing safely in Lagos, four passengers and two on -board agents were transported to hospital for light injuries and have since been released, said the airline.
Twenty-seven other passengers and five crew members “suffered light injuries,” the FAAN said in a statement. Shared on X.
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A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of United Airlines landed at Barcelona airport, in Spain, on September 2, 2024. (Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/Nurphoto/Getty Images)
The United 613 flight transported 245 passengers, eight on -board agents and three pilots at the time of the incident.
The plane has not undergone “no major damage,” said the FAAN.
“We are working with the aeronautical authorities of the United States and Nigeria to understand the cause,” said United.
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“The public may not know it for a few weeks or a month, but the investigators will know it within a few days,” said Jeff Guzzetti, former investigator on accidents at the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board . New York Times.
“They will download the flight data recorder, question the driving crew and also listen to the cockpit voice recorder,” he said.
Earlier this month, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from Etihad Airways interrupted its takeoff of Melbourne airport in Australia For technical reasons, according to reports.
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The EY461 flight from Etihad Airways connecting Melbourne to Abu Dhabi began its acceleration on the track around 7 p.m. before braking suddenly and stopping.
“The driving crew has decided to interrupt takeoff for technical reasons, the plane was safely immobilized on the track and the emergency services intervened as a precaution,” said Etihad Airways to the newspaper Public of the United Arab Emirates, The National.
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Sydney Morning Herald reported that a plane passenger said two tires broke out after the landing train had caught fire.
Greg Wehner of Fox Business contributed to this report.
