Posted on 05/08/2024 11:27:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Boeing cargo plane forced to land at Istanbul without front landing gear Incident involving Boeing 767 jet operated by FedEx comes amid intense scrutiny of troubled planemaker
Jasper Jolly and agencies Wed 8 May 2024 08.22 EDT Share A Boeing cargo plane has been forced to land at Istanbul airport without its front landing gear, in the latest setback for the embattled planemaker.
Nobody was hurt in the incident, in a flight operated by the delivery company FedEx, according to Turkey’s transport ministry.
The Boeing 767 aircraft, flying from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday, informed the traffic control tower at Istanbul airport that its landing gear had failed to open and it landed with guidance from the tower, the ministry said.
Emergency services were standing by for the landing. The ministry did not give a reason for the landing gear’s failure and said its teams were conducting examinations at the scene as part of an investigation.
Video of the incident shows the plane’s back wheels touching down, followed by its fuselage, with sparks and smoke streaming from its underside. The plane then skids to a halt, remaining on the runway.
The runway has been temporarily closed to air traffic, but traffic on the other runways at the airport was continuing without interruption, the airport operator IGA said.
The incident comes at a time when Boeing’s safety record is under intense scrutiny, after a string of crises and safety issues.
Boeing on Tuesday said it had informed regulators about possible failures to carry out mandatory safety inspections on its 787 Dreamliner planes. The US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration, said it was “investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records”.
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That’s no one’s business but the Turks.
It’s The Guardian.
Wikipedia has a list of commercial airliners currently in production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_jet_airliners
Airbus and Boeing are about the only large-aircraft brands that are in use.
Wonder if we’re hearing about problems that Airbus planes have?
Q: Why did Constantinople get the works?
A: It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
CC
Also sounds like they have a serous maintenance issue read a few years ago they were having maintenance done in the muddle east to cut operation costs not sure if true?.
As much as I despise some of the terrible things that Boeing has done. They are now constantly being attacked for things that are most likely not their fault. The mob rules.
Yesterday they said it was alleged in some place that inspector supervisors checked off that they had done a list of inspections but actually skipped them.
The problem is not really the things that don’t move and should. It’s much more the things that move and shouldn’t.
it is private maintenance problems. everything on a plane is handled daily by mechanics checked before take offs and parts changed out on a schedule. DEI kills, oopsies hurts, you can’t have a bad day when 57 nuts with wires had to be installed at the correct torque and count your tools before and after use.
The correct terminology is “nose gear.”
This failure seems so common I have to ask, “Are passenger jets strengthened in the nose wheel area to repair the plane for easier re-use after such incidents?”
My guess is “no”, but thought I’d ask.
They're still in production -- cargo and tanker versions. And they have the same landing gear.
That said, it is very unlikely this was some kind of factory issue, though FedEx has received some new 767s in recent years. I don't know when this one was manufactured.
Industrial competitive sabotage? Planted operatives paid by other companies?
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