United B744 at Shanghai on Aug 21th 2012, rejected takeoff

Last Update: August 23, 2012 / 20:29:44 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 21, 2012

Classification
Incident

Cause
Rejected takeoff

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-858

Departure
Shanghai, China

Destination
San Francisco, United States

Aircraft Registration
N177UA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

A United Boeing 747-400, registration N177UA performing flight UA-858 from Shanghai (China) to San Francisco,CA (USA), rejected takeoff from Shanghai at low speed after an engine ingested a bird and received fan blade damage. The aircraft slowed safely and returned to the apron.

The aircraft had already suffered a lightning strike while arriving as flight UA-857 the day before causing the cancellation of flight UA-858 of Aug 20th.

As result of the bird strike flight UA-858 of Aug 21st needed to be cancelled as well.

The Boeing 747-400 registration N122UA, that had reached Shanghai on Aug 21st as flight UA-857 and was scheduled to depart as flight UA-858 of Aug 21st, departed as flight UA-858A and reached San Francisco with a delay of 2 hours.

On Aug 22nd two Boeing 747-400s, registrations N105UA and N122UA, flew from Shanghai to San Francisco as flights UA-858 and UA-858A.

N177UA was able to depart Shanghai on Aug 23rd and reached San Francisco as flight UA-858 of Aug 23rd.

Passengers reported the aircraft was accelerating for takeoff when the captain decisively slowed the aircraft and announced an engine had ingested a bird. The aircraft was surrounded by 10 fire engines.

Other passengers were complaining on China's Weibo service (similiar to Twitter) that first their flight was cancelled due to a lightning strike, then the next day they sat on the aircraft for three hours until the flight was again cancelled due to the bird strike, they spent more than 30 hours without sleep as United had hoped to get another aircraft in sooner.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 21, 2012

Classification
Incident

Cause
Rejected takeoff

Airline
United

Flight number
UA-858

Departure
Shanghai, China

Destination
San Francisco, United States

Aircraft Registration
N177UA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

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