{"id":69233,"date":"2026-01-19T04:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/2026\/01\/19\/mechanical-issue-scare-united-airlines-flight-narrowly-avoids-crash-landing-in-orlando-videos-shows-close-call\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:36:17","slug":"mechanical-issue-scare-united-airlines-flight-narrowly-avoids-crash-landing-in-orlando-videos-shows-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/2026\/01\/19\/mechanical-issue-scare-united-airlines-flight-narrowly-avoids-crash-landing-in-orlando-videos-shows-close-call\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mechanical issue&#8217; scare: United Airlines flight narrowly avoids crash landing in Orlando; videos shows close-call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix\">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-126667929,imgsize-653741,width-400,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'Mechanical issue' scare: United Airlines flight narrowly avoids crash landing in Orlando; videos shows close-call\" title=\"United Airlines flight narrowly escapes crash-landing at Orlando airport (Picture from X)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cj2hz img_cptn\"><span title=\"United Airlines flight narrowly escapes crash-landing at Orlando airport (Picture from X)\">United Airlines flight narrowly escapes crash-landing at Orlando airport (Picture from X)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A United Airlines flight on Sunday afternoon (local time) narrowly avoided a crash landing at Orlando International Airport in the US due to a \u201cmechanical issue,\u201d according to statements from the airline and the airport cited by Fox Orlando.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>A video of the flight\u2019s landing, widely circulated on social media, appears to show the aircraft moments before touchdown, with the nose wheel seemingly coming off the landing gear.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>United Flight 2323 departed Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport at 8:55am and landed in Orlando at 12:35 pm, according to United Airlines\u2019 website. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Officials said the aircraft experienced a \u201cmechanical issue\u201d upon landing, causing it to block the runway, after which passengers were taken to the terminal by bus.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>United Airlines said the flight was carrying 200 passengers and six crew members. No injuries were reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The airlines&#8217; also said that its team are involved in the efforts to remove the aircraft from the runway.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>However, it was not immediately clear what caused the &#8220;mechanical issue&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/mechanical-issue-scare-united-airlines-flight-narrowly-avoids-crash-landing-in-orlando-videos-shows-close-call\/articleshow\/126667858.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines flight narrowly escapes crash-landing at Orlando airport (Picture from X) A United Airlines flight on Sunday afternoon (local time) narrowly avoided a crash landing at Orlando International Airport&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-braking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768797377_unnamed-file.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sochtimes.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}