Information has emerged of a cabin crew getting injured on a United Airlines Boeing 787 between San Francisco and Papeete.
There is limited information pertinent to the incident at hand.
It is understood this took place on either UA114 (Inbound) or on UA115 (Outbound), as per Aviation-Safety.
United Airlines UA114/115 – San Francisco-Papeete-San Francisco…
The United Airlines UA114/115 rotation is a routine scheduled flight between Papeete and San Francisco.
Furthermore, the aircraft involved in the incident was N23994.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N23994 is a 0.9 year old Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner that was delivered to the airline back in May 2025.
Of the 787-9 variant, United Airlines has 52 of them in their fleet, of which 50 are in active service, and two are parked, with an average age of 6.5 years.
As well as the 787-9 variant, United Airlines has the following other aircraft in their mainline fleet:
- 75 Airbus A319s.
- 67 Airbus A320s.
- 66 Airbus A321s.
- 597 Boeing 737s.
- 61 Boeing 757s.
- 53 Boeing 767s.
- 96 Boeing 777s.
- 12 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners.
- 21 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners.
In total, the airline has 1,100 aircraft in their fleet, of which 1,033 are in active service, and 67 are parked, offering an overall fleet age of 15.2 years.
United Airlines UA115 departed from San Francisco at 1326 local time on the 29th of March and arrived into Papeete at 1842 local time.
The return, UA114, departed at 2114 local time, and landed back into SFO at 0753 local time the next morning.
Information Still Fluid…
At this stage, information is still fluid regarding this incident involving a crew injury on the United Airlines flight UA114/115 rotation from San Francisco to Papeete.
Furthermore, what we do know at the moment is that the injury was caused by turbulence.
There is no additional detail as of yet into how significant this turbulence was to prompt that injury.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to this, then we will update you accordingly.
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