In one more Boeing mishap, a United Airways plane on Friday touched down at Medford Airport, in Portland, Oregon with out an exterior panel, Fox Information reported.

In an announcement,United Airways introduced that its Flight 433which took off from San Fransisco, landed at Medford Airport round 1:45pm PDT on Friday139 passengers and 6 crew members onboard.

Nonetheless, the assertion additionally revealed that the flight’s Boeing 737-800 plane was “found to be lacking an exterior panel” whereas it was parked on the gate.

The assertion added: “We’ll conduct an intensive examination of the airplane and carry out all of the wanted repairs earlier than it returns to service. We’ll additionally conduct an investigation to higher perceive how this injury occurred.”

Whereas some sources have reported that the airplane misplaced the panel throughout flight, United Airways stated that the airplane didn’t declare an emergency whereas en path to Medford “as there was no indication of the injury through the flight”.

Following the mysterious incident, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated a probe into the incident to learn the way the 25-year-old plane misplaced an exterior panel earlier than touchdown in Oregon.

Boeing didn’t remark, directing inquiries to United Airways. Based on FAA information, the airplane was in-built late 1998.

Site visitors was briefly halted on the airport to seek for the panel.

The US aviation business is getting elevated consideration following theAlaska Airways Boeing 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency which was attributable to a door plug blowout.

Moreover, Boeing has come underneath heavy regulatory scrutiny for security and high quality requirements after a number of incidents have been reported involving its aircrafts.

United has introduced that the plane concerned in Friday’s incident will stay grounded till repairs and the investigation are accomplished earlier than returning it to service.