United Airlines’ oldest Boeing 767 is likely a write-off after the fuselage skin buckled and tore in a hard landing at Houston on July 29. The aircraft arrived from Newark at 10:34 a.m. with 193 passengers and 11 crew, none of whom were injured. Circumstances of the landing have not been released, but the crew taxied to the gate as normal after their rough arrival.
Ground crews found the damage and the plane remains in Houston. According to Simple Flying, the aircraft has been flying for United since 1991 and is one of 37 767-300ERs in the inventory. The plane is scheduled to keep flying until about 2030 when the type is replaced by the Boeing 787. United has 100 Dreamliners on order, and they will replace the 767s and the airline’s first-generation Boeing 777-200s.
