FILE - Two United Airlines Boeing 737s are parked at the gate at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 7, 2022. United Airlines said Friday, March 22, 2024, that federal regulators are increasing their oversight of the carrier following a series of recent incidents including a piece of the outer fuselage falling off one jet and another suffering an engine fire on takeoff.
Earlier this week, FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told NBC News, “We are going to look at each one of these incidents and see if we see a pattern. … No one likes to see this spike of incidents."Separately this week, Kirby tried to reassure customers that the airline is safe, saying that the recent issues were unrelated to each other.