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After Flight to Oregon, Boeing 737-800 Lands with a Missing External Panel


A Boeing 737-800 "was discovered to be missing an external panel" on the bottom of its fuselage, reports CNN, "after it landed in Medford, Oregon, Friday afternoon after taking off from San Francisco." They stress that it's not a 737 Max, but the previous generation of Boeing aircraft. The plane ...

A Boeing 737-800 "was discovered to be missing an external panel" on the bottom of its fuselage, reports CNN, "after it landed in Medford, Oregon, Friday afternoon after taking off from San Francisco. The plane carrying 145 passengers and crew landed safely and was parked at the gate at Rogue Valley International Medford Airport when a person on the ground first noticed the panel was missing, United Airlines said in a statement. United said the missing panel did not affect the flying characteristics of the airplane...

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