United 767 loses weather radar after Washington takeoff, continues to Paris

A United Airlines Boeing 767 bound from Washington Dulles to Paris lost its weather radar during the climb after departure, according to an account of the incident.

Flight UA330 departed Dulles at 04:30 EDT on Saturday, October 10, 2026, roughly six hours behind schedule. The aircraft, a 34-year-old 767 registered N651UA, used Runway 30 and climbed toward a planned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The crew then discovered the primary weather radar was not working.

Facing a North Atlantic crossing, the pilots contacted United flight operations and asked whether continuing without the radar would breach or invalidate the ETOPS segment of their route. Those rules cover twin-engine long-haul flights that stay far from diversion airports, where working weather detection and navigation equipment matters for avoiding convective weather and turbulence over oceanic tracks.

Dispatchers weighed the conditions, weather information and operational needs with the crew, and the flight was allowed to continue. The jet completed the Atlantic crossing with nothing further reported and arrived at Paris Charles de Gaulle at 4:45 PM local time.

No passengers or crew were hurt, the source account states. It does not say what caused the radar to fail.