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Parked, about to be boarded Boeing 787-9 collapses on Frankfurt Airport (article in German, with pics and aftermath video) (www.hessenschau.de)

submitted 19 hours ago by lurch@sh.itjust.works to c/boeing@lemmy.ml

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At 12:45 on June 4th at Terminal 1 of the German Frankfurt/Main airport, a parked and docked Boeing 787-9 collapsed hurting multiple workers. The full reason is yet unclear.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Obligatory, that’s not very typical; I’d like to make that point.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It was probably made with sellotape. And card board.

[–] SenatorCollins@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago

Well, there are a lot of these jets going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that airliners aren’t safe.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago

The front (wheel) fell off!

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Video of moment of collapse, linked to from the article: https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/frankfurt-hier-prallt-die-lufthansa-maschine-aufs-flughafen-vorfeld,video-219604.html

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Poor plane!
Looks like someone put something to eat in its bowl.

Vid

... and it's not even the first time that it happened to a 787.
In 2018 & 2022 (landing gear retracted/collapsed due to unintuitive manual procedure steps in order to cycle the power in certain conditions - a badly designed process prone to human error due to it's nature ... and the video might suggest the same issue happened again):

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 13 hours ago

a badly designed process

Just Boeing doing Boeing things.