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| Date: | Monday 19 October 2015 |
| Time: | 18:40 |
| Type: |  Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner |
| Owner/operator: | United Airlines |
| Registration: | N27901 |
| MSN: | 34821/45 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2012 |
| Engine model: | GE GEnx-1B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 222 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Kansai International Airport/Osaka (KIX/RJBB) -
 Japan
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
| Kansai International Airport/Osaka (KIX/RJBB), Japan | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner operating UAL/UA35 from San Francisco, USA to Osaka/Kansai made an emergency landing at the runway 06L of Kansai at 18:40JST (09:40UTC) due to a punctured tire of the right main landing gear. A safe landing was carried out with fire engines standing by, and the plane taxied to its gate normally. No injuried were reported. According to a news source, the flight crew noticed low pressure warning on the tire while descending at 130km west-northwest of KIX at about 17:40JST (08:40UTC), however, the plane was leveled at FL400 at about 340km northwest of KIX, at that time, according to the Flightradar24.com record.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20151023050940/http://mainichi.jp:80/select/news/20151020k0000m040153000c.html
http://www.sankei.com/west/news/151019/wst1510190086-n1.html
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| 25 July 2025 | N27901 | United Airlines | 0 | near Washington-Dulles International Airport, VA (IAD/KIAD) |  |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Oct-2015 16:11 | isamuel | Added |
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