Less than a week after the Alaska Airlines door torn off mid-flight incident, a United Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing after the “door open” light came on Wednesday, just after takeoff .
This is a problem that the American airline would have done well without, having just discovered that bolts needed to be tightened on some of the Boeing 737 MAX 9s it owns.
Wednesday’s incident, however, involved an Airbus A319 coming from Sarasota, Florida, which had to land in Tampa rather than continue to Chicago due to the appearance of this light, said a spokesperson for the airline. Tampa airport at New York Post.
This landing was made “as a precautionary measure this afternoon to resolve a possible mechanical problem,” a United Airlines spokesperson told the media.
The 123 passengers and five crew members of United Flight 2434 landed without difficulty almost an hour after their departure.
Door problems are not taken lightly, especially since the accident on an Alaska Airlines flight that lost a door mid-flight last Friday on a 737 MAX 9 aircraft.
