United 787 between Denver and Narita diverts to Seattle

By: Ben Schlappig

Published: June 18, 2013

26 comments

A United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner (Flight 139) going from Denver to Narita in Tokyo, made an emergency landing today at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) at about 4:15pm PST. The aircraft was met by fire crew, was inspected and allowed to park at the A-concourse. Currently fire crews have left the aircraft and mechanics are in the process of inspecting.

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Ouch. Apparently there was a problem with an oil filter. Let’s hope it was an isolated event and the 787 doesn’t get grounded again. But my gosh, the plane sure doesn’t have luck on its side.

(Tip of the hat to Randy)

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woodt andrew Guest

August 8, 2013, 7:11 am

regarding sean m.'s comments, do you have any factual information to back up the 787's relaibilty stats compared to 777 and a330 at comparable times, as i am doing a project that will touch on that subject and a website would be very benificial, hard to believe though im sure 777 had a great dipsatch from the start

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Blaine Guest

June 19, 2013, 8:16 pm

Agree with Sean. United sent a "come to Jesus" letter to Boeing because of the issues with their 777's. THIS IS NORMAL! Not a single person has been hurt.

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Sean M. Diamond

June 19, 2013, 8:15 am

@Willy - I'm in India right now - done with West Africa for a while I hope. Working on a couple of new start-up projects.

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Willy Guest

June 19, 2013, 7:31 am

Thank God we've got people like Sean M. around these blogs/forums who post useful information! Thanks dude. How's LOS?

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Robert Guest

June 19, 2013, 6:49 am

It's sad that this has happened. But I am so pissed off at UA and Smisek. He has Jeff'ed up the whole company. Nice thing to happen on the day that they announce the minimum spend for levels of elite status. What goes around comes around.

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