Twinjet delivered in January was preparing for Los Angeles service.
One of Lufthansa’s newest Boeing 787s has suffered a nose-gear collapse while parked at Frankfurt Main airport.
The 787-9 twinjet (D-ABPQ) was only delivered to the German flag-carrier in January.
Having arrived from Austin it had been preparing to operate the LH450 service to Los Angeles on 4 June when the incident happened.
The flight was subsequently cancelled.
Video images circulating on social media, purporting to show the occurrence, indicates that the aircraft’s nose-wheel began moving forward, as if retracting, while the jet was stationary at the gate.
The nose-gear doors appeared to separate as the nose struck the ground.
A cargo loader was parked at the open left-hand forward cargo door at the time, and the door seemed to hit the loader as the collapse took place.
At least two airbridges were also apparently attached to the jet. The extent of any injuries to personnel or damage to the 787 has yet to be confirmed.
While investigation into the incident has only just started, the event is reminiscent of a British Airways 787-8 nose-gear collapse at London Heathrow in June 2021.
That occurrence was traced to the nose-gear locking pin having been inserted in the wrong location — the downlink apex pin bore, adjacent to the correct slot — before a landing-gear cycling check.
Other 787s have experienced inadvertent nose-gear retraction, including an Ethiopian Airlines 787-8 at Addis Ababa in March 2016 and a 787-8 which was undergoing maintenance testing in Washington state in March 2018.
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