On 13th February 2018 on a flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, the aircraft experienced an in-flight separation of a fan blade and subsequent loss of the inlet and fan cowls on the starboard engine. The aircraft landed safely at Honolulu. A very similar incident at Denver with a sister aircraft N772UA on 20th February 2021 led to the grounding of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 series engined fleet
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