A Matter of Degrees
The NTSB has released its final report on a 18 December 2022 incident in which a 23-year-old United Airlines Boeing 777-222, registration N212UA, then operating as UAL Flight 1722, experienced a dramatic altitude deviation enroute from the Hawaiian island of Maui’s Kahului Airport (OGG) to California’s San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The flight was operated as a scheduled air-carrier operation under Part 121 of the Federal Aviation Regulations.