United flight makes emergency landing at Newark airport

A United Airlines flight headed to Nevada made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport to deal with a mechanical problem, according to the airline.

It comes the day after a Delta Air Lines flight returned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after the crew reported a “haze” in the flight deck shortly after the flight took off. The Delta flight, which was headed to Columbia, S.C., safely offloaded 94 passengers and five crew members.

United flight 1544, which took off from Newark Liberty Tuesday morning, “safely” returned to the airport after experiencing an “issue,” a Port Authority spokesperson said in an emailed statement to The Hill.

All of the 176 passengers and six crew members were deplaned, and the flight was back in the air shortly after 10 a.m. EST. No injuries were reported.

United said in a statement the Boeing 757 plane, which was headed to Las Vegas, went back to the Newark airport to address “a possible mechanical issue.”

“The flight landed safely, and all passengers deplaned normally at the gate. We have arranged for a different aircraft to take our customers to Las Vegas this morning,” a United spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill.

Airline safety has been in the spotlight since a crash near Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29 in which all 64 passengers and crew aboard a commercial airline, and three military service members aboard a Black Hawk helicopter, were killed.

Last week, 17 people, including a child, were injured after a Delta flight from Minneapolis experienced an “incident upon landing” in Ontario, Canada, and flipped upside down on the runway.

Two United Airlines flights made emergency landings at the Newark airport last month, PIX11 News reported.

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