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Vietnamese airlines no longer use Boeing 777: CAAV

Vietnamese airlines have no longer used Boeing 777 aircraft since four planes of this type were sold in 2017-2018, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
Vietnamese airlines no longer use Boeing 777: CAAV ảnh 1A Boeing 777-200 aircraft of United Airlines at Denver airport in Colorado, the US (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese airlines have nolonger used Boeing 777 aircraft since four planes of this type were sold in 2017-2018,according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

The authority gave the information after the US planemanufacturer Boeing recommended grounding all 128 Boeing 777 around the worldfollowing an engine fire on a B777 United Airlines flight.

A leader of the CAAV said that currently, no country in theworld has banned the B777 and neither has Vietnam, but due to the Boeing’srecommendation, no flight using the aircraft type has flown across theVietnamese airspace. Meanwhile, no Vietnamese airline has signed any contract tohire or buy B777, added the official.

On February 22, Boeing affirmed that all 128 B77 airplanes poweredby Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engineshave been removed from service.


United Flight 328, bound for Honolulu in Hawaii with 231people aboard, reported trouble on February 21 shortly after taking off from Denver. The plane landed safely and nopassengers were injured./.
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