Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt

jaydenmilne

> That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point

sigmoid10

Can someone tell me if this is just confirmation bias or is Boeing really going down this hard? I mean management was obviously tanking since the McDonnell Douglas takeover, but did it really take almost 30 years for this to shine through? Or were these things underreported in the last decades?

midiguy

So a plane which has withstood probably countless landings, had its nose gear collapse while sitting statically at a gate of all times and places? Weird.

sourcegrift

The only reason boeing exists today is because they've paid off Trump

focusgroup0

Given that it's their turf, is it reasonable to consider sabotage by an Airbus-affiliated entity?

bell-cot

Collapsed while it was sitting at a gate, with no passengers yet on board - meaning the the gear was under far lower loads than during a landing. While slowly-failing gear could have collapsed anyway just then, the obvious question is whether the nose gear had just been serviced. By mechanics who (say) forgot to re-install the bolts holding everything together.

cwizou

Same thing happened to British Airways a few years ago on a 787, a misplaced security pin that was inserted in the wrong place during a maintenance operation. There are two very similar holes next to one another that can receive the pin, there's a picture at the bottom here : https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989 Wondering if the same mishap is behind it again.

root-parent

Not yet at the https://avherald.com/

Havoc

I don't understand how that caused several injuries among a pretty small group (staff)? Google says front wheel is about 1.68m. High but not crazy high. Plane body and people fall at same speed and it would be slower than actual freefall since the plane is vaguely balance-ish on rear wheels I'm sure the reporting is right but feels counterintuitive to me

ortusdux

Video (reddit) - https://www.reddit.com/r/aviationmaintenance/comments/1twmd2...

LegitStupid

"Lufthansa operates the 787-9 variant" and "is planning to gradually phase out less efficient jets and simplify its fleet." Do the efficiencies come from not having to burn fuel for it to crash into the ground?