In the last hour or so, a United Airlines Boeing 767 bound for Washington has u-turned back to Rome with a problem onboard.
Information is limited surrounding this incident, but below is what we know on this so far.
Without further ado, let’s get into it…
United Airlines Flight UA127 – Rome to Washington…
United Airlines flight UA127 is a routine scheduled flight between Rome and Washington D.C.
Also, the aircraft involved in the incident was N76062.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N76062 is a 22.3 year old Boeing 767-400ER that started out life with Continental Airlines in March 2002.
Following the merger in October 2010, the aircraft was transferred over to the United Airlines register.
Furthermore, of the 767-400ER variant, UA have 16 of them in the fleet.
Of that 16, all but one are in active service, with an average fleet age of 22.8 years.
Moreover, the entire fleet for mainline United Airlines looks like the following:
- 81 Airbus A319s.
- 87 Airbus A320 Family aircraft.
- 11 Airbus A321 Family aircraft.
- 496 Boeing 737 Family aircraft.
- 61 Boeing 757 Family aircraft.
- 53 Boeing 767 Family aircraft.
- 96 Boeing 777 Family aircraft.
- 71 Boeing 787 Family aircraft.
United Airlines flight UA127 departed Rome at 1609 local time today and initially climbed out towards Washington.
Over the Alps, the aircraft made a u-turn and proceeded to return to the Italian airport.
It is key to note that the aircraft didn’t utilize the 7700 emergency squawk code.
This means that whatever the issue was onboard, it was under control by the crew as they made their return.
United Airlines flight UA127 bound for Washington landed back into Rome at 1804 local time.
Some Form of Technical Issue…
@AirportWebcams on X reported that the issue at hand was of a technical nature.
Such information came from the United Airlines flight status time, which gave a new departure time for the Rome-Washington route.
As it stands, it is unclear what the actual technical issue was onboard the aircraft.
What we do know is that it was serious enough to prompt a u-turn back to the Italian airport.
Unclear If The Aircraft is Grounded…
At the time of writing (18/6/24 @ 1805 UK time), the United Airlines Boeing 767 is still stuck in Rome.
It is unclear when it will actually depart to Washington, or whether the aircraft will be grounded.
Furthermore, this is all dependent on whether the technical issue can be fixed by engineers on the ground.
If it isn’t, then the flight may have to be cancelled if there are no spare aircraft nearby to operate the segment.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this, then we will update you accordingly.
For now, this remains a developing story pending additional updates that come through.
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