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A Boeing 737 aircraft was involved in a incident at Denver International Airport, in United States.
It is an aircraft of the American company Southwest AirlinesIt lost the cover of one of its engines.
The incident with this Boeing 737 It was recorded on the morning of this Sunday, April 7, 2024, when the aircraft was carrying 140 people, including passengers and crew.
The cover of one of its engines came off and hit the wing during takeoff. This event is investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
In addition, the incident adds to the list of incidents at the second largest aircraft manufacturer in the world.
The plane, model 737-800, had to return to Denver International Airport, 25 minutes after takeoff.
The passengers were transferred to another plane, which arrived four hours later. Sunday’s incident adds to the list of problems for Boeing.
In early January 2024, a panel covering the space for an emergency door of a Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max-9 It detached shortly after the plane took off.
The incident, which caused no injuries, sparked a series of new investigations into Boeing operations.
Several Boeing 737 cases in the spotlight
The FAA discovered dozens of quality control problems both at Boeing and at its supplier Spirit AeroSystems.
Another report from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSA) revealed that the panel that detached from the Alaska Airlines plane was not installed correctly and did not have four fixing screws.
The crisis that Boeing is experiencing began on October 29, 2018 when flight 610 of the Indonesian Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea.
This accident occurred shortly after takeoff, causing the death of its 189 occupants.
On March 10, 2019, Flight 302 Ethiopian Airlines suffered an accident in similar circumstances in which the 157 people traveling on the plane died.
These two accidents caused dozens of countries around the world to ban flights of the 737 family of aircraft.
The investigations revealed that the FAA had adopted measures favorable to the manufacturer in the certification process of the Boeing 737 Max-8.