Cargo jet does face-plant after mangled maintenance check

Side view of a British Airways airliner collapsed on its nose with stairs to cabin still attached.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner being operated by British Airways for a dedicated cargo-only flight to Frankfurt, Germany, fell on its chin last week during preflight maintenance when a procedural mistake caused the nose landing gear to collapse at Heathrow London Airport. Two persons were slightly injured and the plane was damaged, according to the incident report.

The U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the accident happened because a mechanic in charge of inserting a locking pin into the...

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