A Medford Jet Center employee walks below a United Boeing 737-824 that landed at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport from San Francisco with a lacking panel on Friday in Medford, Ore.

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A Medford Jet Center employee walks below a United Boeing 737-824 that landed at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport from San Francisco with a lacking panel on Friday in Medford, Ore.

Andy Atkinson/AP

PORTLAND, Ore. — A post-flight inspection revealed a lacking panel on an older Boeing 737-800 that had simply arrived at its vacation spot in southern Oregon on Friday after flying from San Francisco, officers mentioned, the newest in a sequence of current incidents involving plane manufactured by the corporate.

United Flight 433 left San Francisco at 10:20 a.m. and landed at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport in Medford shortly earlier than midday, based on FlightConscious. The airport’s director, Amber Judd, mentioned the airplane landed safely with out incident and the exterior panel was found lacking throughout a post-flight inspection. No accidents had been reported.

The airport paused operations to examine the runway and airfield for particles, Judd mentioned, and none was discovered.

Judd mentioned she believed the United floor crew or pilots doing a routine inspection earlier than the following flight had been those who seen the lacking panel.

A United Airlines spokesperson mentioned through e-mail that the flight was carrying 139 passengers and 6 crew members, and no emergency was declared as a result of there was no indication of the harm in the course of the flight.

“After the aircraft was parked at the gate, it was discovered to be missing an external panel,” the United spokesperson mentioned. “We’ll conduct a thorough examination of the plane and perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service. We’ll also conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.”

The Federal Aviation Administration additionally mentioned it will examine.

The lacking panel was on the underside of the plane the place the wing meets the physique and simply subsequent to the touchdown gear, United mentioned.

The airplane made its first flight in April 1998 and was delivered to Continental Airlines in December of that yr, based on the FAA. United Airlines has operated it since Nov. 30, 2011. It is a 737-824, a part of the 737-800 sequence that was a precursor to the Max.

Boeing mentioned, additionally through e-mail, that it will defer remark to United in regards to the provider’s fleet and operations.

In January a panel that plugged an area left for an additional emergency door blew off a Boeing Max 9 jet in midair simply minutes after an Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland, leaving a gaping gap and forcing pilots to make an emergency touchdown. There had been no severe accidents.

The door plug was finally discovered within the yard of a highschool physics instructor in southwest Portland, together with different particles from the flight scattered close by. The Department of Justice has launched a felony investigation.

On March 6, fumes detected within the cabin of a Boeing 737-800 Alaska Airlines flight destined for Phoenix induced pilots to move again to the Portland airport.

The Port of Portland mentioned passengers and crew seen the fumes and the flight landed safely. Seven individuals together with passengers and crew requested medical evaluations, however nobody was hospitalized, officers mentioned.