Several Injured in Boeing 787 Nose-Gear Collapse in Frankfurt

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/lufthansa-787-jet-suffers-front-wheel-collapse-frankfurt-gate-2026-06-04/

38•karakoram•1h ago

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jaydenmilne•1h ago

> That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point

binaryturtle•1h ago

I duckduckgo'ed "nose gear collapse" earlier and it seems it may be an issue that's more common than expected? At least there were lots of images of airplanes with broken front wheels and the nose touching the floor.

dragontamer•1h ago

This is a joke about "The Front Fell Off", a classic comedy video from a few decades ago.

buredoranna•1h ago

If you haven't experienced the awesomeness of "The Front Fell Off", do yourself a favor and seek it out on youtube... you won't be disappointed.

PyWoody•35m ago

Also check out All Birds Are Cats by the same duo.

hulitu•56m ago

Joke ? Those people were serious.

dust42•59m ago

From the picture and the text this aircraft was parked at the gate. During a hard landing the nose gear may collapse but not while being parked. And while parked there are protections to prevent retraction. However, these can be overridden by maintenance.

dragontamer•1h ago

Well this time it at least didn't fall into the environment.

sigmoid10•1h ago

Can someone tell me if this is just confirmation bias or is Boeing really going down this hard? I mean management was obviously tanking since the McDonnell Douglas takeover, but did it really take almost 30 years for this to shine through? Or were these things underreported in the last decades?

timw4mail•1h ago

Confirmation bias, instant communication, hyper focus on Boeing mishaps, etc.

ak217•1h ago

The 777 and 787 programs have never seen a passenger fatality resulting from an engineering defect. That is a monumental achievement in light of the passenger miles served. Boeing has its problems, but that record speaks for itself

dust42•55m ago

This and we don't know yet what happened. It could have structurally collapsed - very unlikely, it could have uncommanded retracted, or maintenance has overridden the protections. I'd place my bets on #3, handling error in maintenance mode.

hulitu•52m ago

From 787 wikipedia page: "On June 12, 2025, Air India Flight 171, an 11-year-old Boeing 787-8 registered as VT-ANB[398] operating from Ahmedabad Airport to London Gatwick Airport, crashed into the hostel building of B. J. Medical College shortly after takeoff. According to the preliminary Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau report released on July 8, 2025, the crash was caused by both engines shutting down after their fuel control switches moved from the "RUN" to "CUTOFF" position.[399]: 13–14 The cause of the switch movement remains under investigation. The report did not recommend any actions to Boeing, or 787 operators.[400][399]: 15 All but one of the 242 people on board were killed, as well as 19 people on the ground.[401] The sole survivor was a British national "

midiguy•1h ago

So a plane which has withstood probably countless landings, had its nose gear collapse while sitting statically at a gate of all times and places? Weird.

rjsw•1h ago

One post said that the plane was only 4 months old.

joezydeco•55m ago

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/boeing-787-9-d-abpq-l...

rconti•54m ago

Okay, countable landings.

red_admiral•27m ago

There's a story that during the testing of a fighter plane - I think the F-35 but not sure - the "developers" claimed the new computer systems made most pilot errors all but impossible.

QA engineer's first check was, what happens if I try and retract the wheels while the plane is sitting on the ground and not moving. Oops.

sourcegrift•1h ago

The only reason boeing exists today is because they've paid off Trump

focusgroup0•1h ago

Given that it's their turf, is it reasonable to consider sabotage by an Airbus-affiliated entity?

heyitsguay•58m ago

It was the same sniper that blew up that Starship

creaturemachine•47m ago

And New Glenn. This guy gets around!

vr46•35m ago

About as likely as the repairman getting lost in Frankfurt Airport

netsharc•35m ago

"reasonable"...

How insane do you want to sound?

"Yeah, let's sabotage a competitor's plane, I'm sure it won't cause a major scandal and millions of dollars of lawsuits if one of them falls out of the sky and kills ~300 people, and they caught us as the cause...".

What the hell dictionary are you using where you're asking if the word "reasonable" could apply to this idea? Is your hovercraft full of eels?

bell-cot•1h ago

Collapsed while it was sitting at a gate, with no passengers yet on board - meaning the the gear was under far lower loads than during a landing.

While slowly-failing gear could have collapsed anyway just then, the obvious question is whether the nose gear had just been serviced. By mechanics who (say) forgot to re-install the bolts holding everything together.

cwizou•1h ago

Same thing happened to British Airways a few years ago on a 787, a misplaced security pin that was inserted in the wrong place during a maintenance operation. There are two very similar holes next to one another that can receive the pin, there's a picture at the bottom here : https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/318989

Wondering if the same mishap is behind it again.

wvbdmp•47m ago

Yikes, mojibake in 2021.

edit: actually, how did that happen? The apostrophes show up correctly, they’re just all preceded by a Â that doesn’t seem to represent anything?

netsharc•38m ago

They're probably Microsoft's "Smart Quotes", which are Unicode. They were presumably stored in UTF-8 but retrieved as ASCII (or ISO-8859-1).

layer8•22m ago

The acute accent U+00B4 (“´”) that is sometimes used as an apostrophe is encoded as C2 B4 in UTF-8, which when interpreted as ISO 8859-1 results in “Â´”, effectively placing an Â in front of the accent. Then something must have converted the U+00B4 to U+2019 Right Single Quotation Mark (“’”).

wvbdmp•13m ago

Delicious, thank you!

stefan_

root-parent•57m ago

Not yet at the https://avherald.com/

Scoundreller•23m ago

you were a half hour too impatient: https://avherald.com/h?article=53a14f7c&opt=0

root-parent•19m ago

Thanks.

root-parent•20m ago

No reason to downvote. The reason is because incidents on avherald get many times lots of comments both from professional pilots as well as mechanics.

This one even better: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1510091&...

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1twkg45/lufthansa...

Video: https://x.com/flightradar24/status/2062510866981924920?s=20

Havoc•56m ago

I don't understand how that caused several injuries among a pretty small group (staff)?

Google says front wheel is about 1.68m. High but not crazy high. Plane body and people fall at same speed and it would be slower than actual freefall since the plane is vaguely balance-ish on rear wheels

I'm sure the reporting is right but feels counterintuitive to me

root-parent•55m ago

If you are inside the cabin and not expecting, would be sliding down quite a bit.

Insanity•45m ago

+1. And honestly you can injure yourself pretty badly by just falling down. Especially if you’re a bit older.

connorbrinton•47m ago

My uneducated guess is that crew members in the back galley could have been injured by unsecured items they were loading falling or sliding. The service cart itself is 200-250 lbs. With the rear galley accelerating upward, then a sudden halt to the acceleration when the front nose impacts the ground, I could imagine the cart lifting off the ground and landing on feet or legs. Or putting the cart aside, other items such as drink cans, galley appliances, etc. falling from cabinets or counters could cause injury

cucumber3732842•45m ago

Because the tow guy called in the problem 10min prior and the mechanics were clustered around it deciding it it was a "get a new plane" sized problem and they did something and dropped it or whatever. Someone's hand got mashed, someone got bonked on the head and the boss spilled his coffee. Meanwhile inside the cabin whoever was febreezing vomit off the wall of the bathroom reached out to grab anything that was nearby when the plane lurched which turned out to be his coworker's ass and the fake nail grazed his eye when he got slapped for that. Some asshole manager probably slipped and fell rushing to chew them all out. And another guy got a bloody nose when he crashed his baggage tractor into a parked forklift at at 3mph because he was watching the whole deal rather than where he was going but he didn't report that one so he's not included in the total.

Yeah I'm pulling all that out my ass but I bet I'm closer than anyone around here wants me to be. However mundane and stupid you think ground ops are at an airport triple that and you'll be in the ballpark.

ortusdux•47m ago

Video (reddit) - https://www.reddit.com/r/aviationmaintenance/comments/1twmd2...

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