Boeing 767 cargo aircraft landed at Istanbul Airport with out its entrance touchdown gear, says a transport ministry official.
A Boeing 767 cargo aircraft has landed at Istanbul Airport with out its entrance touchdown gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official stated.
The official stated 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 Categorical utilizing the again touchdown gear after which dipping its nostril with the entrance portion of the fuselage.
The aircraft was on the final leg of its flight from Paris to Istanbul when the pilots realised the entrance touchdown gear did not open, state-run information company Anadolu stated.
The plane knowledgeable the management tower in Istanbul that its touchdown gear had did not open and touched down with steerage from the tower, managing to stay on the runway, a ministry assertion stated.
Airport rescue and hearth combating groups have been scrambled earlier than touchdown, however there have been no reported accidents.
It was not clear why the failure occurred.
The plane concerned is an almost 10-year-old Boeing 767 freighter, one of the frequent cargo planes and based mostly on the 767 passenger mannequin relationship again to the Nineteen Eighties.
An official from Turkey’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure stated its groups have been conducting examinations on the scene as a part of the persevering with investigation.
FedEx stated in a press release it was coordinating with investigation authorities and would “present extra data as it’s accessible”.
The runway was briefly closed to air visitors, however different runways at Istanbul airport have been nonetheless working usually, the airport operator IGA stated.
Producers should not sometimes concerned within the operation or upkeep of jets as soon as they enter service, however Boeing has been underneath intense media and regulatory scrutiny following a sequence of incidents involving its 737s.