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United Airlines detected a lacking exterior panel after one in all its planes landed in Oregon — including to the rising pile of latest mishaps for Boeing.

The flight leaving San Francisco on the morning of 15 March landed safely at its scheduled vacation spot in Medford, Oregon, a United spokesperson advised The Independent in a press release.

“After the aircraft was parked at the gate, it was discovered to be missing an external panel,” the spokesperson mentioned. Since there was no indication of injury in the course of the flight, the plane didn’t declare an emergency.

United will conduct a “thorough examination” of the plane — a Boeing 737-800 aircraft — and restore it as wanted “before it returns to service.”

The airline will even launch an investigation to grasp how the harm occurred, the spokesperson added.

The aircraft was carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew — none of whom have been injured.

When requested for remark, Boeing as a substitute referred The Independent to United.

Friday’s flight is the most recent in a sequence of latest issues that Boeing has confronted, because the plane firm has been beneath intense scrutiny after a spate of points have occurred on its planes.

The January incident through which a panel on a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft blew out mid-flight prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to floor 170 of the identical sort of plane. The Department of Justice has additionally launched a felony inquiry into the matter.

Earlier this month, a United Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft was pressured to make an emergency touchdown in Texas after its engine exploded and burst into flames mid-air.

In one more incident in March, a LATAM Airlines flight from Australia to New Zealand dropped abruptly mid-air following what was described as a “technical event.” The incident jostled passengers, inflicting many to hit the roof of the aircraft, resulting in accidents.

As scrutiny mounts, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has urged Boeing to cooperate within the many probes into the corporate. Boeing should “go through a serious transformation here in terms of their responsiveness, their culture and their quality issues,” he mentioned earlier this week.