Two passengers on board a scheduled United airlines flight were reportedly injured when flight crew manoeuvred in response to a TCAS resolution advisory on 19 September 2024.
United Airlines flight UA2428, operated by a Boeing 757-200, was en route between Newark, NJ and San Francisco, CA when the event occurred.
United Airlines UA2428 Newark-San Francisco
According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report, the flight was in the cruise en route to San Francisco International Airport. It was transiting Wyoming airspace at the time.
The brief FAA report has been provided by the online source Aviation Herald. It notes that the United flight crew had responded to a Terrain Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) advisory.
A resultant manoeuvring of the aircraft took place to comply with the collision avoidance advisory. This resulted in one passenger receiving serious injuries and causing another minor injuries.
Specific details of the injuries sustained by the 2 passengers has not been disclosed. However, the FAA has categorised the event as an accident; giving an indication of severity of injuries sustained.
The identifying information suggests that the aircraft was on flight plan track and in cruising flight at the time of the occurrence. Notwithstanding this, there is no significant deviation in the altitude profile of the aircraft according to available ADS-B data.
Typically, a TCAS resolution advisory will be generated in a situation where there is a loss of minimum separation between 2 conflicting aircraft.
The FAA report currently only nominates the United Airlines Boeing 757-200 operating scheduled flight UA2428 on 19 September. There is no clarification as to the involvement of another aircraft in the TCAS advisory message.
Flight Details
Flight data shows that flight UA2428 had made a late departure out of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). The actual time of departure was logged as 0003 local time, against the scheduled departure time of 2015 local.
The flight then set course normally, climbing to flight level FL320 (32,000 feet) for the westerly service to San Francisco.
Following the in-flight event, the aircraft continued to the destination San Francisco International Airport as per the scheduled flight plan.
Aircraft conducting the UA2428 service with a Boeing 757-200, registered N12125. This is a 26.7 year old aircraft belonging to the carrier United Airlines. It has been an operational service with the airline since October 2010.
Prior to its service with United, the aircraft was operated by merger airline Continental Airlines from its initial delivery from the factory in February 1998.
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