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A 25-year-old United Airlines Boeing 737 landed at an Airport in Oregon on Friday due to a missing exterior panel.<\/p>\n
United claimed that the issue was first discovered when parked at the gate, and landed about an hour after departing San Francisco Friday morning, landing safely at its destination in Medford, Oregon.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the aircraft was parked at the gate, it was discovered to be missing an external panel,\u201d the airline\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service.\u201d<\/p>\n The incident marks at least the 8th time a Boeing aircraft was involved in an incident this year.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, a\u00a0United Airlines\u00a0plane was forced to make an emergency landing in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0on due to a \u201chydraulic failure.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cThe flight landed safely and passengers were deplaned normally at the gate,\u201d United said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis aircraft type has three hydraulic systems for redundancy purposes. Preliminary information shows there was only an issue with one system on this aircraft,\u201d the airline continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n