The company's CEO has promised changes to increase safety aboard its planes after a recent string of incidents.
The number of mechanical issues experienced by United Airlines planes in the past two weeks has apparently increased to 11, as a reader wrote to Newsweek of an incident on her flight.'I was on a flight last night, EWR to Heathrow UA14,' the reader wrote, describing her March 18 journey from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to London.She continued: 'Approximately 40 minutes after takeoff, we were told we needed to turn around as the wheels were not retracting.
The company will be updating its safety trainings and procedures across all employees on top of already planned changes, including an extra day of in-person training for all pilots starting in May, according to the CEO.These are the ten other known incidents the airline has experienced in the past two weeks: March 4: A flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, made an emergency landing after an engine fire.
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