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Boeing 737 makes emergency landing minutes after take-offdue to a malfunctioning wing flap. Boeing says they are ‘fully confident in the safety and durability’ of their planes despite a series of mishaps this week


Boeing says they are ‘fully confident in the safety and durability’ of their planes despite a series of mishaps this week

Flight 166, a 737 jet operated by United Airlines, took off from Fukuoka Airport in south-western Japan on Friday morning, heading for Guam, an island territory in the western Pacific. The flight was due to last just under four hours but the passenger plane, carrying 50 holidaymakers, was forced to land back at Fukuoka Airport shortly after taking off. The US’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said at the start of the week it had opened an investigation into the company after workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes.

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