{"id":2791,"date":"2018-10-04T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2018-10-04T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:41:51","slug":"united-airlines-flight-to-sydney-declares-fuel-mayday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Flight To Sydney Declares &#8216;Fuel Mayday&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">United Airlines flight 839 from Los Angeles landed safely in Sydney, Australia today after the pilot issued a &#8216;Fuel Mayday&#8217;, officials said. The aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, landed safely at Sydney International Airport. The plane reported a mechanical issue, and stronger than anticipated headwinds than contributed to the flight getting down to its fuel reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The aircraft was carrying 180 passengers and a crew of 14. Once an aircraft gets down to its fuel reserve in flight, it&#8217;s required to declare a &#8220;fuel mayday&#8221;. This alerts local air traffic control to issue the plane a &#8220;priority landing&#8221;, putting it ahead of other aircraft that are on approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2792\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/United_787-9-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/United_787-9-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/United_787-9-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/United_787-9-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/United_787-9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines flight 839 from Los Angeles landed safely in Sydney, Australia today after the pilot issued a &#8216;Fuel Mayday&#8217;, officials said. The aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, landed safely at Sydney International Airport. The plane reported a mechanical issue, and stronger than anticipated headwinds than contributed to the flight getting down to its fuel reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,799,868,1103],"tags":[747,42,1755,118,92,1480,41,99,660,1757,199,1758,1756,444],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-747","tag-42","tag-1755","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-australia","tag-boeing","tag-dreamliner","tag-flight","tag-fuel","tag-international","tag-mayday","tag-sydney","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}