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United Airlines Flight 663 incident
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The United Airlines Flight 663 incident was a "minor international incident" in 2010 involving a Qatari diplomat on the leg of a United Airlines flight from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (Washington, D.C.) to Denver International Airport (Denver, Colorado).[1] The diplomat prompted a mid-air terrorism alert after smoking in the aircraft lavatory, which led the Qatari government to recall him two days later.
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Incident | |
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Date | 7 April 2010 |
Summary | Suspected terrorist attack |
Site | en route Washington D.C. to Denver |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 757-222 |
Operator | United Airlines |
Flight origin | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Crystal City, Virginia, U.S. |
Stopover | Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
Destination | Las Vegas International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
Occupants | 163 |
Passengers | 157 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Injuries | 0 |
Survivors | 163 |
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United no longer uses Flight 663 as a DCA-DEN-LAS route. As of April 2024, UA663 is now used on the Orlando-Denver route, flown by a variety of aircraft types.[2]