American Airlines Boeing 777 With 249 People On Board Makes Emergency Landing After ‘Mechanical Problem’

American Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 249 people is forced to make an emergency landing at LAX after a ‘mechanical problem’.

Flight AA 345 was arriving from Dallas Fort Worth and landed in Los Angeles around 8.45 pm local time Wednesday, Mail Online reports.

The aircraft taxied along the runway and all passengers and crew onboard were able to disembark using a jet bridge.

Initial rumours suggested that the issue was a blown-out tyre, reports KTLA.

This latest setback for the beleaguered airplane building behemoth following a slew of safety issues, emergency landings and near-fatal incidents.

Those problems became further magnified following the mysterious suicide of John Barnett, 62, last Saturday. Barnett was a former quality manager at the company’s North Charleston plant. He died following a ‘self-inflicted’ gunshot, police said.

Flight AA 345 was arriving from Dallas Fort Worth and landed in Los Angeles around 8.45 pm.

Just this week, a United Airlines Boeing 777 en route to Japan from San Francisco was forced into an emergency landing at LAX when it lost a tyre.

A few days before that, another Boeing jet was forced to make an emergency landing in LAX after taking off from San Francisco due to hydraulic issues.

In response to a federal audit, Boeing said Tuesday that it would work with employees found to have violated company manufacturing procedures to make sure they understand instructions for their jobs.

The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing’s commercial plane division.

The memo went out after the Federal Aviation Administration finished a six-week review of the company’s manufacturing processes for the 737 Max jetliner after a panel blew off during Alaska Airlines flight on January 5.

The FAA reviewed 89 aspects of production at Boeing’s plant in Renton, Washington, and found the company failed 33 of them, according to a person familiar with the report.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been publicly released – although they were reported earlier by The New York Times.

The Arlington, Virginia-based company has seen its price on Wall Street drop by over ten percent over the last week.