767 cargo plane makes emergency landing in Istanbul

There seems to be no end to the crisis at Boeing. This Wednesday a 767 cargo plane belonging to logistics giant FedEx has been forced to ground an emergency landing As a result at Istanbul Airport Front landing gear failure, In the images, you can see how the pilot uses the rear landing gear to land and then dips the nose to slide over the front part of the fuselage. A risky maneuver that caused sparks to fly and smoke but, fortunately, there were no casualties, The crew was able to be evacuated in good condition, although the aircraft had to be sprayed with fire-fighting foam and pulled from the runway before traffic could resume.

The plane, which had taken off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport three hours earlier, was on the last leg of the flight when the pilots realized that Front landing gear did not open, However, according to the Turkish Transport Ministry, the plane managed to stop on the runway. The pilots informed Istanbul Airport’s control tower and managed to land with the assistance of the security team.

At present, the reason that led to the security lapse has not been revealed. FedEx claims to be coordinating the investigation and has promised to provide “additional information” about the incident as it becomes available. This plane is Boeing 767 Cargo about ten years oldOne of the most common on the market, based on the 767 passenger model of the 1980s.

This is a new episode in the history of safety failures of the manufacturer, whose quality control procedures have been questioned since the beginning of January, when a door panel of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane burst and caused an emergency landing in Portland (Oregon) . A report by US regulators published in February also questioned Boeing’s “safety culture”. A month later, its CEO, dave calhounannounced that he would be leaving his organic responsibilities at the company at the end of the year.