{"id":247100,"date":"2026-04-01T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:56:10","slug":"united-flight-to-sfo-hits-turbulence-attendant-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247100\/","title":{"rendered":"United flight to SFO hits turbulence, attendant injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agency said in a public docket that the aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/data\/aircraft\/n23994\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">N23994<\/a>, was en route at the time of the incident. There were 165 people aboard. The NTSB categorized the event as a turbulence encounter and said the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s aviation incident records tied the episode to a United flight operating between San Francisco and Papeete, Tahiti, in French Polynesia.<\/p>\n<p>Flight-tracking data from FlightAware shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/UAL114\/history\/20260329\/0650Z\/NTAA\/KSFO\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">United Flight 114<\/a> traveled from Papeete to San Francisco during that time frame, arriving Sunday about 1 hour and 30 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>United did not immediately respond to a request for comment or provide additional details, including the injured crew member&#8217;s condition or the severity of the turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Turbulence incidents rarely cause serious injuries, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which has found that flight attendants are more likely to be injured because they are often standing or moving through the cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The agency said in a public docket that the aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 identified as N23994, was en&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,7,395,101,103,102,104,106,105,2422,2013],"class_list":{"0":"post-247100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-peninsula","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-travel","18":"tag-us-and-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}