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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Aviation Ping!.....................
But not Constantinople!
Yes, it was already posted today. (And I commented that there are 90,000 airline flights a day around the world, to put things in perspective.)
Weird title.... Landed with impaired/non functioning front wheels or “without” as in Did they fall off or something?
While everyone seems to like dissing on Boeing lately (some deservedly) in this case it has nothing to do with Boeing, this is a fedex maintenance issue
Well, it wasn’t a 787. It was a 767 and stories like this demonstrate how stupid the media and most readers can be.
Boeing’s problems (and they are severe) do not affect planes that have been out of production (like the 767).
How is that maintenance worker DEI program working out?
Why did the 767 get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
It's Shark Week.
**Weird title....**
You need to lower your expectations of the 21st century media.
“While everyone seems to like dissing on Boeing lately (some deservedly) in this case it has nothing to do with Boeing, this is a fedex maintenance issue”
Absolutely right.
Aside from the original 2 Max plane crashes and the door falling off, none of these daily Boeing stories are the fault of Boeing. 5 years ago this story would have read, “Fed Ex plane makes emergency landing”.
Now every plane mishap in the world is identified as Boeing. Even planes that are decades old.
Stuff happens.
Lol!!!!!
Sixty-five years ago I was in a PanAm hanger on 36th St in Miami. Over the exit doorway from the hanger area going into the mechanics’ locker room was a large sign reminding the mechanics that the lives of their passengers and crews were in their hands. It made such an impression on me that I remembered it all these years. Sure wish I had the exact wording.
What is up with Boeing lately?
They have some people who let slip they were voting for Trump?
Or are they really having this many problems, and they all just happen to be occurring right now?
Well they still had the two main landing wheel assemblies, and let me tell you, two out of three ain’t bad….
Headline writing is a lost art. I had the same question.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
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