United Airlines 787-9 diverts to Noumea due smoke in cockpit

[NilPie]

Found on news.com.au (canīt post links yet)

"A United Airlines flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles has been forced to make an emergency landing tonight after reports of smoke coming from the cockpit.

UA99 left Tullamarine Airport shortly after 1pm towards the west coast of the United States when something went wrong. It landed at La Tontouta International Airport at Noumea,
the capital of New Caledonia, shortly after 4pm.The Boeing 787-9 dreamliner was carrying 256 passengers and landed without any issues.

Passenger Nathan Lanier shared pictures of the aircraft on the runway three hours from Melbourne.“Didn’t expect to end our trip in New Caledonia but want to commend the Captain and his crew of UA99 for a calm and professional emergency diversion,” he wrote

A United Airlines spokesperson said they were on hand to assist passengers with whatever they needed.

All passengers are expected to spend the night in Noumea.

United Airlines has been approached for comment."

[Penetr8or]

Let's hope for Boeing this has nothing to do with the earlier battery problems on the Dreamliner....

[nonsense]

https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...ad938f2a684bee

Naturally illustrated with a stock photo of an entirely different aircraft:

[CargoOne]

Originally Posted by nonsense

https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...ad938f2a684bee

Naturally illustrated with a stock photo of an entirely different aircraft:

I really like this part - “The emergency landing comes 15 days after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on March 10 killing all 157 people on board.”. 🙈

[Mk 1]

Originally Posted by CargoOne

I really like this part - “The emergency landing comes 15 days after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed on March 10 killing all 157 people on board.”. 🙈

Speaks volumes of the quality of journalism doesn't it? Both planes had wings and were made by Boeing, therefore they should be linked.

[777Nine]

News.com.au...I can't believe that people read that crap for 'news'.

[OneBoyInCoach]

And for the second time, the aircraft failed to make it to the continental US. Flightradar24 shows UA2727 as diverted to HNL. This is the NOU LAX ferry flight. Passengers are on another aircraft. And FlightRadar24 shows the continuation to LAX as cancelled.