UPS nose gear collapse at Incheon
UPS has left the pavement aborting a takeoff on 33L at ICN around midnight. The tail is high in the air with apparent nose gear collapse. From 3km away it looks like a MD11. Thankfully it looks survivable. Local mechanics say the gear collapsed during RTO, although that could be lost in translation and an overrun into grass caused the collapse. If that was a Korean carrier the boys and girls would be in custody by now. Curiously, although the runway is clearly unusable, there is no NOTAM or comment on the ATIS- lots of folk requesting the usual landing runway and wondering why not. This must surely be Incheon's first accident.