[txhurl]

Taking off doesn’t stress landing gear like landing does. From the photo, it looks like they were taxiing left when the gear broke off. Notice how the craft is leaning right. It COULD be a right-lug-nut problem. But it looks more like the total front gear was replaced and not tightened up enough.

[SkyDancer]

The weight on the nose remains during T/O until around 100kts or so when they rotate - when landing, the nose gear is the last to touch down (or supposed to). Can’t tell from the pictures if the plane is on the rwy or taxiway.

[cynwoody]

Taking off doesn’t stress landing gear like landing does.

Here is some serious landing gear about to be stressed:

That's the Antonov 225 Mriya.