Boeing 767 cargo airplane landed at Istanbul Airport with out its entrance touchdown gear, says a transport ministry official.
A Boeing 767 cargo airplane has landed at Istanbul Airport with out its entrance touchdown gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official mentioned.
The official mentioned there have been no casualties and authorities had launched an investigation, the Reuters information company reported on Wednesday.
A video on social media confirmed the Boeing 767 belonging to FedEx Specific utilizing the again touchdown gear after which dipping its nostril with the entrance portion of the fuselage.
The airplane was on the final leg of its flight from Paris to Istanbul when the pilots realised the entrance touchdown gear didn’t open, state-run information company Anadolu mentioned.
The plane knowledgeable the management tower in Istanbul that its touchdown gear had didn’t open and touched down with steerage from the tower, managing to stay on the runway, a ministry assertion mentioned.
Airport rescue and fireplace preventing groups had been scrambled earlier than touchdown, however there have been no reported accidents.
It was not clear why the failure occurred.
The plane concerned is a virtually 10-year-old Boeing 767 freighter, probably the most widespread cargo planes and primarily based on the 767 passenger mannequin courting again to the Nineteen Eighties.
An official from Turkey’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure mentioned its groups had been conducting examinations on the scene as a part of the persevering with investigation.
FedEx mentioned in an announcement it was coordinating with investigation authorities and would “present further info as it’s accessible”.
The runway was briefly closed to air visitors, however different runways at Istanbul airport had been nonetheless working usually, the airport operator IGA mentioned.
Producers should not usually concerned within the operation or upkeep of jets as soon as they enter service, however Boeing has been below intense media and regulatory scrutiny following a sequence of incidents involving its 737s.