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Max 8 Flight To Hawaii Scare: Engine Shutdown, Diversion to Mainland

December 13, 2021 by Beat of Hawaii 4 Comments

Max 8 Flight To Hawaii Scare: Engine Shutdown, Diversion to Mainland

On Saturday, a Hawaii flight provided passengers with an unexpected scare when one of the engines had to be shut down over the Pacific Ocean en route to Honolulu. Luckily the plane returned safely to its origination point, Vancouver. The diversion was confirmed by flight tracking company FlightAware.

The airline told Daily Hive that “WestJet flight 1862 from Vancouver to Honolulu, with 166 guests on board, diverted back to Vancouver on Saturday afternoon due to an issue that necessitated an engine shutdown.”

Westjet said that there was no time when the safety of passengers was at risk and that the company followed standard safety and diversion procedures.

Safety and Boeing 737 Max.

Following two years off-line as a result of two deadly crashes, Boeing 737 Max flights are back in the air. Boeing made repairs to its flight control system that was said to have resulted in the crashes and subsequent flight ban that took effect in March 2019.

Airlines have been adding the 737 Max planes back, with Southwest, for example, having resumed flights last March. And, while the plane is back in service, Boeing still has work to do in order to regain the trust of both the public and the airlines.

Read: It’s Back: Boeing 737 Max Flights to Hawaii Have Resumed.

 

 

 

 

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  1. Mike G says

    December 14, 2021 at 2:45 pm

    I will never trust any Max aircraft. They are not and will never be a safe aircraft to fly on

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    • JohW says

      December 14, 2021 at 4:23 pm

      Well sadly they were produced under a very different Boeing then the great company it use to be. Clear case of profit
      becoming the primary driver when in the past quality was, and then the profits followed.
      Plane has been heavily scrutinized so it should be ok, but I certainly wouldn’t fly one inter island. That’s not what it’s designed for and
      I would bet we’ll be seeing issues with that.

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  2. BillandKaryn M says

    December 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    We just returned home to Orange County from a 18 day awesome vacation “home”.
    We returned to our beloved Kaanapali,Maui timeshare and seeing our beautiful Ohana on Oahu who we haven’t seen in 20 months because of the pandemic. To see their sweet faces again was very emotional.
    At HNL the day we flew back to LAX on Alaska Airlines we realized we’re scheduled on a 737 Max8.
    First reaction was say what ??? But the flight was fine, kinda turbulent but OK.
    American crews in the cockpit, we believe in

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  3. Cindy says

    December 13, 2021 at 12:27 pm

    I recently flew to and from Kauai on a 737 Max jet. I have to say that going over was the worst flight I’ve been on, going to Hawaii. I really thought this was it and how that plane stayed in the air, had to be a miracle. It was dark, no flight attendants were allowed to be out of their seats and nothing from the flight deck over the intercom. I am grateful to the pilots that got all of us through that, they are heroes. My flight back was just a little bit turbulent, also a 737 Max. Thanks again

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