Boeing 737 plane makes emergency landing minutes after take-off with 50 passengers on board in latest safety blunder

A BOEING 737 plane with 50 passengers on board has been forced into an emergency landing just minutes after taking off.

The United Airlines plane lasted just minutes in the air before complaints of an irregularity with a wing were reported in the latest Boeing safety blunder.

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The plane left Fukuoka Airport in Japan on Friday morning at around 11:45am before swiftly being forced to turn back around, police say.

No one was injured in the major ordeal.

Police are now investigating the mishap in order to find out what caused the emergency landing.

The runway at Fukuoka Airport was temporarily closed for routine safety checks after the emergency landing.

It comes just days after a Boeing cargo belonging to the US mail service FedEx plane crash-landed on its nose on Wednesday.

The 767 aircraft was travelling from Paris to Istanbul and sent sparks flying as it nosedived on the runway.

And earlier this month, a Boeing 747 was caught on camera bouncing along the runway.

The Lufthansa Airlines plane was seen dramatically smashing into the ground twice in Los Angeles Airport (LAX) before the pilot gave up and aborted the rough landing. 

Two days earlier, a wheel fell off a Boeing 737 fully loaded with passengers as smoke billows from the commercial jet.

Dramatic footage showed the plane grinding along the runway before it was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff.

The multiple blunders come as the aircraft is giant is facing controversy over safety concerns.

Boeing has always maintained their jets are safe to fly.

WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKS

The failed landing is just the latest in a series of controversies surrounding Boeing as investigations continue into the company.

Brave whistleblower Sam Salehpour described how he witnessed workers jumping on plane parts to force them to fit on “defected” aircraft.

He went on to say he was told to “shut up” and threatened by Boeing bosses after constantly raising serious safety concerns over how the planes were being assembled.

Salehpour took part in the bombshell back-to-back US Congress hearings this week as he testified against his employers.

The engineer worked at Boeing for a decade and claims he tried to warn them of his concerns over much of that time period.

At the Congress hearing Salehpour said: “I’m not here today because I want to be here.

“I was ignored, told not to create delays, told, frankly, to shut up…

“My boss said, ‘I would have killed someone who said what you said,’ during a meeting.”

His biggest issues were with how some of the jets were being assembled over the past three years.

In one of the shocking claims he said: “I literally saw people jumping on pieces of the airplane to get them to align.

“I repeatedly produced reports for my supervisor and Boeing management that the gaps on the 787 were not being properly measured or shimmed into two major joints of the 787.”

Salehpour found that across 29 planes, major gaps were reported but not addressed a staggering 98.7 per cent of the time.

In a further 80 per cent of cases, the unclosed gaps ended up being filled with debris, he told Congress.

Another former Boeing employee turned whistleblower John Barnett, 62, gave evidence against the company just days before he died from a “self-inflicted” wound.

He had been providing evidence of alleged wrongdoing at Boeing to investigators working on a lawsuit against the company at the time of his death, according to the BBC.

In 2019, he told reporters he had seen workers purposely fitting sub-standard parts onto aircraft on the production line.

Barnett claimed that defective parts were mishandled and sometimes lost or refitted to planes from the company scrapyard to meet production timelines.

He also alleged that he had discovered major issues in some of the planes’ oxygen systems which could lead to one in four masks not functioning properly.

He also says his complaints were ignored.

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Source: Sun