{"id":716616,"date":"2026-06-05T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716616\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:49:14","slug":"nose-of-a-boeing-787-falls-off-injuring-several-crew-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/716616\/","title":{"rendered":"Nose of a Boeing 787 falls off, injuring several crew members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several staff members were injured when the nose gear \u200bof a Boeing 787 Dreamliner unexpectedly collapsed \u200cat a gate at Frankfurt airport on Thursday, its operator Lufthansa said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Passengers had not yet boarded,” a company spokesperson \u200bsaid in an emailed statement, adding that \u200bcrew members and ground staff were on board \u2060the aircraft at the time of the incident, \u200bwhich was first reported by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n

“Several staff \u200bmembers were injured and are currently receiving medical treatment,” the company added.<\/p>\n

The aircraft is just over a year old and was delivered to Lufthansa in January, one of the newest additions to the airline\u2019s wide-body fleet, according to Flightradar24. Since entering service in February, the plane has operated 137 flights, the flight-tracking website said.<\/p>\n

The moment the nose fell off the plane:<\/p>\n

Video footage from the scene appeared to show the front wheels of the aircraft sliding forward and the plane\u2019s nose falling several meters (yards) as a ground crew member standing nearby quickly backed away. The doors to the nose gear bay broke off upon impact.<\/p>\n

A Boeing spokesperson said the company was aware of \u200bthe incident and was supporting its customer but \u200boffered no further detail.<\/p>\n

A Reuters photographer saw multiple emergency vehicles \u200cparked \u2060around the two-engine widebody aircraft, which partly lay on its belly.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred Thursday at 12:45 p.m. and the jet was scheduled to depart for \u200bLos Angeles \u200bas flight \u2060LH450, Lufthansa said.<\/p>\n

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The plane on its belly after the incident <\/p>\n

(Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

“We are currently investigating the exact circumstances with the relevant authorities,” \u200bthe company added.<\/p>\n

The 787, of which Lufthansa \u200boperates \u2060the 787-9 variant, is a relatively new addition for the group, which is planning to gradually phase \u2060out \u200bless efficient jets and simplify \u200bits fleet.<\/p>\n

Jeff Guzzetti, a former U.S. federal aviation crash investigator, said it is \u201cvery unusual\u201d for a nose landing gear to collapse while an aircraft is at a standstill. He cautioned it is too early to speculate on the cause of the incident, but he said potential factors could include prior damage to the landing gear, a mechanical failure or issues related to maintenance work.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the 787 program had been plagued by production flaws and quality-control issues, with shipments of the large plane temporarily halted on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Issues with the 787 started in 2020 when small gaps were found between panels of the fuselage that are made of carbon composite material. That prompted inspections that turned up problems with a pressurization bulkhead at the front of the plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several staff members were injured when the nose gear \u200bof a Boeing 787 Dreamliner unexpectedly collapsed \u200cat a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-716616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}