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...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargo-jet-does-face-plant-after-mangled-maintenance-check

Rickenbacker Airport sets cargo records in June

A white Emirates plane on tarmac unloading pallets of freight, pulled by a tug under bright blue sky. Emirates is running passenger freighters to Rickenbacker airport in Ohio.

Rickenbacker International Airport, a cargo-dedicated facility near Columbus, Ohio, set an all-time monthly record with 20.3 million pounds of cargo handled in June, eclipsing the previous mark by 4 million pounds with the help of passenger freighters never operated before the COVID crisis.

The Columbus Regional Airport Authority said it also broke a record for international freighter arrivals with 120. In November 2018, Rickenbacker received 109 international all-cargo aircraft that offloaded...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/rickenbacker-airport-sets-cargo-records-in-june

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