Incident Leads to New Rule for Pilots

A United Airlines jumbo jet that lost power in an engine June 28 during takeoff from San Francisco dipped low enough that the noise set off car alarms and sent airport neighbors running for cover, a newspaper reported. The pilot of the Australia-bound Boeing 747 with 307 people on board so badly mishandled the recovery that the plane cleared 1,576-foot-high San Bruno Mountain a few miles to the north by only 100 feet, government and airline officials said. Now the Federal Aviation Administration has ordered new training for the airline’s long-haul pilots. The crews that fly long trips must now make at least one set of takeoffs and landings in a real plane rather than flight simulators.