United Flight 1854, a Boeing 737 MAX 9, landed safely, taxied normally and passengers exited at the gate, the airline said.<\/p>\n
“United flight 1854 from Grand Cayman to Houston declared an emergency upon landing due to a mechanical indication,” United said in a statement. “The plane landed safely, taxied normally and passengers deplaned at the gate.”<\/p>\n
The plane was carrying 83 passengers and six crew members, according to the airline.<\/p>\n
Initial flight-tracking reports indicated the crew said the plane’s right main landing gear would not deploy. The aircraft circled northwest of the airport, and air traffic control suggested Runway 9 in case it needed to be closed after the landing.<\/p>\n
United did not specify what mechanical indication prompted the emergency.<\/p>\n
The incident comes just days after smoke was reported aboard another United Express flight at Bush Intercontinental Airport, prompting a precautionary evacuation Saturday morning. That flight, operated by Mesa Airlines, was headed to Atlanta when a sensor alert indicated smoke in the cabin. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the smoke has not been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Flight 1854, a Boeing 737 MAX 9, landed safely, taxied normally and passengers exited at the gate,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-477152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}