Lufthansa-787-jet-front-wheel-collapse-frankfurt-gate

[A0283]

https://www.reuters.com/business/aer...te-2026-06-04/

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by CAEBr

Quite, but the real issue is that the designer/manufacturer should make a system that cannot be wrongly used. Boeing are at fault for providing a hole sized to take the safety pin which is not the hole that should be used. If there is only one hole that can take the safety pin then no-one will make the mistake.
Simples.

Which has been fixed years ago via AD (they basically put a 'plug' in the wrong hole so there was no longer a hole there).
Simples.
I'd bet pretty good money that the pin was never installed anywhere in the nose gear.

[tdracer]

Originally Posted by CAEBr

Quite, but the real issue is that the designer/manufacturer should make a system that cannot be wrongly used. Boeing are at fault for providing a hole sized to take the safety pin which is not the hole that should be used. If there is only one hole that can take the safety pin then no-one will make the mistake.
Simples.

Which has been fixed years ago via AD (they basically put a 'plug' in the wrong hole so there was no longer a hole there).
Simples.
I'd bet pretty good money that the pin was never installed anywhere in the nose gear.

[treadigraph]

Hmmm, shades of the BA 787 incident at Heathrow a few years ago...

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989

[Joe_K]

Video which appears to be a timelapse (?) of the incident is circulating on social media. For example here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZKj_LWq0DX/

[HighWind]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Hmmm, shades of the BA 787 incident at Heathrow a few years ago...
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989

You suspect someone stuck it into the wrong hole?

[treadigraph]

I should have added "perhaps" at the end of my sentence...

[Lionel Lion]

Cheer up…..doh

[Profit Max]

Originally Posted by Joe_K

Video which appears to be a timelapse (?) of the incident is circulating on social media. For example here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZKj_LWq0DX/

Doesn't look like much of a timelapse to me. Maybe slightly sped up.

[bArt2]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Hmmm, shades of the BA 787 incident at Heathrow a few years ago...

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989

Could well be, looks like a mechanic is having a look at the NLG doors.

[DaveReidUK]

I wonder if the repair will take the 5+ months that the BA one took.

[D Bru]

The broken away front NLG doors on the tarmac is a telltale sign that the NLG was being manipulated. Contrary to the shorter aft NLG doors with the part tail number on them, the longer front doors are normally closed on the ground. They only open on retraction/extension.

[taffyhammer]

Could take longer than the BA incident, with the cargo loader buried in the FWD hold and the likely damage to the composite cylinder!

[PC767]

Originally Posted by bArt2

Could well be, looks like a mechanic is having a look at the NLG doors.

Thank heavens he was looking at the outside and not inside the NLG doors!

[A0283]

Crew and ground staff were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident, several staff members were injured and are receiving medical treatment. No passengers.

[C2H5OH]

Love how he casually walks away. Done for today. Feierabend!

[HumanFactorsAtco]

I'd say a change of pants was in order!!!

[Check Airman]

Originally Posted by C2H5OH

Love how he casually walks away. Done for today. Feierabend!

In fairness, it was too late to run around screaming, wasn’t it?

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by Check Airman

In fairness, it was too late to run around screaming, wasn’t it?

Maybe one could have knocked on that freight door asked the loader if he was OK though.

[FullWings]

Looking at the vid the two guys on the loading platform had luckily chosen that moment to slowly step back. I don’t think they would have been crushed but certainly hit on the head by the door.

The fact that someone was watching the NLG at the time says it all, really.

[MightyOneFiveTwo]

Or maybe the chap in the foreground was wanting to vacate the premises before someone handed him a cup to p** in?

[Downwind_Left]

Difficult to believe it was the same mechanism of failure as the BA 2021 incident (pin in the wrong hole) when there was already an SB and later AD which were being embodied at that time, just unfortunately the BA 787 in question had not had it embodied yet.
AAIB Report

The Lufthansa aircraft was only built in 2025, you would hope with the AD already embodied at production.