(Bloomberg) -- The US Federal Aviation Administration has finished its review of United Airlines Holdings Inc. after finding no significant safety issues, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
The conclusion wraps up months of additional oversight imposed on the carrier following a series of alarming safety incidents, including a wheel that flew off a plane after takeoff and an aircraft that skidded off a runway shortly after landing.
United in May said the FAA had begun to lift restrictions it imposed following the incidents, including allowing the airline to begin the process of adding new planes and routes again. The company declined to comment on the end of the review.
The FAA launched a separate audit of Southwest Airlines Co. in July over its own mishaps, including a flight that plunged to within 400 feet of the ocean off Hawaii. The carrier has ordered all of its pilots to return to its base in Dallas for additional training following the incidents.
Both examinations illustrate the FAA’s response to multiple safety scares during commercial flights this year. The most notable example was a January near-catastrophe in which a door-sized fuselage panel blew off a 737 Max shortly after takeoff.
United’s shares were little changed in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
--With assistance from Mary Schlangenstein.
(Adds shares, United response and additional context from the third paragraph. An earlier version of this story corrected an erroneous reference to United in second paragraph.)
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