{"id":403760,"date":"2026-04-11T20:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ntsb-united-pilots-distracted-denver-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:36:21","slug":"united-737-pilots-distracted-before-denver-deicing-truck-crash-ntsb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403760","title":{"rendered":"United 737 Pilots Distracted Before Denver Deicing Truck Crash, NTSB Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following last month&#8217;s incident involving a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> aircraft collision with two deicing trucks at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span>(DEN), a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) indicates that the pilots were distracted in conversation and were not sure if they had clearance to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that while the aircraft received its taxi clearance, it was not cleared to exit the deicing bay as the operation was still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,829,762,43,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-737-800","category-denver-international-airport","category-safety","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403839,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403760\/revisions\/403839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}