United Flight to Rome Drops 28,000 Feet in Minutes
Pilots on a United Airlines flight had to quickly descend more than 28,000 feet due to possible cabin pressure issues on a Newark-Liberty International flight to Rome.
The plane turned around and landed back in New Jersey about three hours after it took off.
The Boeing 777-200 took off at 9:20 p.m. Wednesday and reached a top altitude of 37,000 feet, according to plane tracking site FlightAware, before a pressure warning in the cockpit.
The pilots rapidly descended to 8,900 feet and continued at that altitude before turning around over Nova Scotia and landing back at Newark at 12:22 a.m. Thursday.
United Flight 510 was headed to Rome–Fiumicino International Airport and had 270 passengers onboard plus 14 crew members.
A spokesperson for United Airlines told The Messenger while there were believed to be pressure issues, “there was never any loss of cabin pressure” and there were no injuries.
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Passengers were put on a different plane and arrived in Rome about six and a half hours late.
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