This British Airways aircraft took a nosedive Friday — when a gear collapse despatched its entrance fuselage onto the tarmac at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Dramatic pictures present the cargo jet, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner with no passengers aboard, with its nostril planted on the bottom after the mishap on the UK’s busiest airport.
“A freighter plane has been broken whereas stationary on stand. As a freighter solely plane there have been no passengers on board,” an airline rep informed Sky Information. “Security is all the time our highest precedence and we’re investigating the matter.”
No accidents or delays had been reported on account of the incident.
Based on flight-tracking information cited by The Solar, the aircraft arrived from Moscow at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. It’s believed it was making ready for a flight to Frankfurt when the collapse occurred.
Callum Jones, a ramp agent at Manchester airport, informed the UK’s Metro that there are numerous the explanation why a nostril gear of a aircraft may collapse.
“They’re simply fortunate no person was beneath the nostril when it collapsed and no pushback tug was connected both, else it may have been so much worse,” he informed the outlet. “The principle factor is that not one of the floor crew had been in and across the nostril gear when it collapsed.”
BA has 32 Boeing 787s in service, together with 12 787-8s — of which G-ZBJB, the aircraft concerned in Friday’s incident, is one — in addition to 18 787-9s, the Impartial reported, citing analytics specialists Cirium.
