(San Francisco) A Mexico-bound United Airlines jetliner from San Francisco made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Friday after the crew reported a hydraulic problem, marking the fourth emergency emergency involving a United Airlines flight this week.
The plane landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport around 4:30 p.m. and none of the 110 people on board were injured, United Airlines said in a statement.
Fire trucks were waiting at the airport, but their assistance was not needed, said Nicholas Prange, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city fire department.
The airline said passengers could travel to Mexico on another plane scheduled to depart later Friday.
United claimed that the Airbus A320 has three hydraulic circuits for redundancy purposes.
“Preliminary information shows that there was only a problem with one circuit on this aircraft,” the carrier added.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States said in a statement that it would investigate the emergency landing on Friday.
Friday’s emergency landing in Los Angeles came hours after passengers had to be evacuated from another United Airlines flight; this plane went off a runway and got stuck in the grass in Houston, Texas. No injuries were reported among the 160 passengers and six crew members, United Airlines said in a statement.
Video posted on social media taken after landing in Houston showed the plane tilted sideways with one of its wings close to the ground.
Another United Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Thursday. It involved a Japan-bound airliner that lost a tire while taking off from San Francisco. No injuries were reported.
Video footage showed the plane lost one of six tires on its left main landing gear just seconds after takeoff. The tire landed in the employee parking lot at San Francisco International Airport, where it struck a car and shattered the rear window before crossing a fence and coming to a stop in a nearby parking lot.
Earlier in the week, a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Texas, was forced to turn around Monday after one of its engines caught fire. Several of the 167 passengers aboard the Boeing 737 caught flames coming from the engine on video. No injuries were reported.