United B772 near Beijing on Sep 8th 2013, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: September 9, 2013 / 23:43:13 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 8, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-116

Aircraft Registration
N57016

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

A United Boeing 777-200, registration N57016 performing flight UA-116 from Hong Kong (China) to Newark,NJ (USA), was enroute at FL310 about 200nm northeast of Beijing (China) when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine (GE90) down. The aircraft turned around and diverted to Beijing for a safe landing on runway 01 about an hour later.

The remainder of the flight was cancelled, the passenges were rebooked onto other flights.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 8, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-116

Aircraft Registration
N57016

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-200

ICAO Type Designator
B772

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