{"id":446007,"date":"2026-06-05T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/weight-issue-british-airways-boeing-787-suffered-similar-nose-gear-collapse-5-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T21:18:44","slug":"weight-issue-british-airways-boeing-787-suffered-similar-nose-gear-collapse-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=446007","title":{"rendered":"Weight Issue? British Airways Boeing 787 Suffered Similar Nose Gear Collapse 5 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, June 4, a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255412\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-787-9\/\"  >Boeing 787-9<\/a><\/span> aircraft saw its nose gear collapse at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256980\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frankfurt-airport\/\"  >Frankfurt Airport<\/a><\/span> (FRA). This resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-boeing-787-nose-gear-collapse-frankfurt-airport\/\" >several employees being injured<\/a> and requiring medical attention. The incident occurred as the plane was being prepared for a non-stop flight to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256619\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/los-angeles-international-airport\/\"  >Los Angeles International Airport<\/a><\/span> (LAX) when it appeared that the nose landing gear unexpectedly retracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 aircraft&#8217;s nose gear collapsed at Frankfurt Airport, raising questions after a similar incident with British Airways in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2114,2638,1513,82,734,16569,11841,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-787-8","category-boeing-787-9","category-british-airways","category-germany","category-lufthansa","category-manufacturers","category-nose-gear-collapse","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446014,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446007\/revisions\/446014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}