FILE – A United airlines plane lands at Sarasota International Airport in Sarasota, Fla., on Monday, February 9, 2024 (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
A United Airlines flight headed to Mexico City from San Francisco was forced to land in Los Angeles on Friday due to an issue with the aircraft’s hydraulic system — in the airline’s fourth emergency since Monday.
Flight 821 departed from San Francisco International Airport just after 1 p.m. local time, and was scheduled to land in Mexico’s capital roughly four and a half hours later.
However, after the issue was reported by crew, the Airbus 320 carrying 105 passengers was “diverted” to LAX where it “landed safely and passengers were deplaned normally at the gate,” a United Airlines spokesperson told the Daily News.
Preliminary information shows there was only an issue with one hydraulic system on the aircraft, the spokesperson said, noting the plane “has three hydraulic…
