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. //

Tim S
August 3, 2023 At 1:13 pm
That airplane has had the same thing happen before, and United decided to repair it.

Apparently it’s the oldest 767 (and probably the oldest airframe period) United has, so they may decide it’s cheaper to just part it out than do that king of repair a second time.