United Airlines flight 698 from San Francisco to Chicago made an emergency landing Tuesday night at O’Hare International Airport. The accident occurred due to an issue with the Boeing 757-300 landing gear. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries during the emergency landing and all the passengers were transported from the runway with bussed to the terminal.
The investigation for the root cause of the accident is underway. The aircraft did not suffer serious damages during the emergency landing.
The operations of O’Hare International Airport in Chicago were not interrupted and resumed without serious delays.
O’Hare International Airport has non-stop flights to 217 destinations in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. O’Hare features two sets of parallel runways, one on either side of the terminal complex. The airport has four numbered passenger terminals with nine lettered concourses and a total of 191 gates.
United Airlines flight 698 was performed by Boeing 757-300. Boeing 757 is a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner that was designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The stretched 757-300, the longest narrow-body twinjet ever produced, began service in 1999.
