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[jufonuk]

BA plane damaged after tipping forward at Heathrow

Images on social media showed more than a dozen emergency service vehicles in attendance.

www.bbc.com

cargo flight. So no delays etc caused to passenger flights.

article links to other 787 incidents of the same type.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

(it's a cargo plane)

 

[Jezbollah]

Cargo flight, but using a 787 passenger aircraft. Expensive mistake.

 

[HoodWinked]

Says it happened twice before. Boeing seriously needs to get it's shit together.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Cargo flight, but using a 787 passenger aircraft. Expensive mistake.

That's pretty normal. Even passenger flights move tons of cargo. That's my job.

As a cargo customer, Airbus is way better than Boeing. Cargo doors are way bigger.

 

[triplestation]

i understand we are talking about a cargo plane?

 

[RaptorGTA]

So the front fell off?

 

[AJUMP23]

IT is a dreamliner right, needed to lay down for its nap.

 

[DeepBreath87]

I heard tell this was but a cargo plane.

 

[dr_octagon]

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

That's pretty normal. Even passenger flights move tons of cargo. That's my job.

As a cargo customer, Airbus is way better than Boeing. Cargo doors are way bigger.

If you're plane then how can you type

 

[Raven117]

Go home 787 your drunk?

 

[M1chl]

So the front fell off?

It collapsed, it moved into position like if it would be flying.

 

[Pagusas]

I dont know whats wrong with me, I can't stop laughing at this and all the horrible horrible things that can be read into it.

 

[bati]

I dont know whats wrong with me, I can't stop laughing at this and all the horrible horrible things that can be read into it.

I like to send this one to my Polish friends from time to time:

 

[EverydayBeast]

Probably minor damage. Looks like when you forget to put your kickstand down.

 

[Derekloffin]

Looks like the nose gear gave out. So, guessing it wasn't properly locked in place somehow, or the lock got overstressed and failed.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Not good PR for Boeing, but hard to know what to make of it without knowing more details about what caused it. If the nose gear just gave way, then that seems problematic. Safety factor should be able to absorb more force when landing than a stationary plan being loaded with cargo; even max cargo load. You'd have to seriously fuck up the weight distribution to have this be a loading error. Planes have crashed due to imbalanced loads leading to fucked up flight dynamics. More information is needed here, especially if this happened twice before.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Looks like the nose gear gave out. So, guessing it wasn't properly locked in place somehow, or the lock got overstressed and failed.

Basically what I was going to say. For the plane to tip forward off of three supports (1x front and 2x midrear landing gears), the front gear would either have to be a fulcrum with a ton of mass at the nose, or the front gear just failed and the front fell down with the midrear gears acting as a fulcrum. So it's most likely the front gear just broke.

That seems like an indication of a disastrous design flaw. When the plane is landing there would be a lot of force on the front gear as well, more than for static loading for sure, so this happening then could easily cause a crash.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Looks like the nose gear gave out. So, guessing it wasn't properly locked in place somehow, or the lock got overstressed and failed.

That’s what is being said. Dont have a source anymore than the papers saying it here.