FAA Considers Eliminating New Routes Amid United Airlines Incidents

The Federal Aviation Administration is considering measures to more closely monitor United Airlines following a series of safety incidents among the airline.

The regulator has discussed temporary actions it might take with the airline’s leadership including preventing the carrier from adding new routes.

“The FAA’s safety assurance system routinely monitors all aspects of an airline’s operation,” the agency said in a statement.

United also might be banned from flying paying customers on newly delivered aircraft, according to a report by Bloomberg News.

Last week, American Faith reported that a United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles due to a “hydraulic failure.”

The plane, an Airbus A320 carrying around 110 people, was flying from San Francisco to Mexico City when it made an emergency stop around 4:30 p.m. at Los Angeles International Airport.

“The flight landed safely and passengers were deplaned normally at the gate,” United said.

“This aircraft type has three hydraulic systems for redundancy purposes. Preliminary information shows there was only an issue with one system on this aircraft,” the airline continued. 

That same day, a United Airlines Boeing 737 went off the runway and got stuck in the grass at the George W. Bush Airport in Houston, Texas.

Earlier this month, a United Airlines plane departing from San Francisco International Airport lost a tire, then fell to the ground and damaged vehicles in a parking lot.

Around the same time, a United Airlines flight that took off from Houston to Fort Myers was forced to turn around after one of its engines erupted in flames.