A United Airlines flight bound to Mexico City from San Francisco made an emergency landing in Los Angeles Friday afternoon after the crew reported a hydraulics issue — the fifth incident this week involving one of the airline’s jets.
Flight 821 left SFO at 1:02 p.m. Flight logs show that after taking off from San Francisco, the Airbus A320 jet suddenly turned around over Sonora, Mexico, around 3 p.m. It landed at Los Angeles International Airport around 4:30 p.m., without any injuries among the 110 people on board, United Airlines said in a statement.
After deplaning at Los Angeles, passengers were put on a new plane and continued their trip to Mexico City.
United jets have caused issues four times already this week. On Friday morning, a United plane rolled off a runway and got stuck in grass in Houston. On Thursday, a United flight headed to Osaka from SFO lost its wheel as the plane was taking off, crushing a car parked in the airport’s employee lot. Monday in Houston, littered bubble wrap on the tarmac was sucked into a plane’s engine, causing it to burst into flames midair and forcing an emergency landing. That same day, while heading from Honolulu to SFO, a United jet’s engine failed mid-flight over the Pacific Ocean.