The third incident occurred on Friday morning, as United Flight 2477, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 160 passengers and six crew members, skidded off the taxiway and into a grassy area after landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. 

Flight 2477's incident comes in the wake of two other incidents:

On Thursday, United Airlines Flight 35, a Boeing 777-200 en route to Osaka from San Francisco, lost a wheel shortly after departure,

and on Wednesday, Flight 1118, a Boeing 737 flying from Houston to Fort Myers, encountered an engine fire mid-flight.

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One day after a United Airlines' Boeing 737 from Houston to Fort Myers experienced a dramatic mid-flight engine fire, a United jet heading to Japan from San Francisco lost a tire during takeoff that fell from the sky and crushed vehicles. 

United Airlines Flight 35, an Oska-bound Boeing 777-200 with 249 souls on board, experienced a landing gear malfunction that caused a tire to separate from the widebody jet. The tire fell several hundred feet and then crushed vehicles in a parking lot at San Francisco International Airport. 

Flight tracking website RadarBox reposted a video on X that captured the moment the tire separated from the plane's landing gear.