At noon local time on April 21, a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane of South Africa's Safa Air (FlySafair) took off in Johannesburg when one of the wheels on the left main landing gear fell off. The plane returned home about two and a half hours after takeoff.
According to local media reports, after the flight scheduled to Cape Town took off at 11:32 p.m. that day, airport ground crews found a damaged landing gear wheel on the ground.
The airport informed the crew. The airliner was guided back and flew low over the airport for technicians to visually assess the condition of the landing gear, only to find that one wheel of the left main landing gear had fallen off. The plane landed at 2:06 p.m. with no passengers or crew reportedly injured. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
In recent months, there have been frequent safety accidents on Boeing aircraft. A similar landing gear wheel detachment accident occurred a month and a half ago - on March 7 this year, a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 passenger plane flying from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan, took off, and one of the wheels of the left main landing gear fell off, and the plane was urgently diverted to Los Angeles Airport.
Source: @CCTV International Times