On the 10th local time, a United Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane took off from Fukuoka Airport in Japan and returned urgently due to abnormal flaps. There were about 50 passengers and crew on board, and no one was injured. This is already the fourth accident in three days with a Boeing-owned aircraft.
According to Japanese media reports, a passenger plane with flight number 166 reported an emergency after taking off, then returned and landed at Fukuoka Airport at around 11:45 am on the 10th. According to the report, one of the flaps of the plane was abnormal, and the police are investigating the cause of the accident and have not received a report of the plane catching fire. The runway at Fukuoka Airport, which was closed for a while, has now reopened. It is understood that this is the fourth accident that occurred in three days with Boeing.
In the early morning of the 9th local time, at an airport in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, a Boeing 737-300 passenger plane rushed out of the runway during takeoff. The fuselage part of the aircraft caught fire, the engines and wings were damaged. As a result of the accident, 11 people were injured, four of them seriously. As a result of the incident, the airport was temporarily suspended.
On the same day, a Boeing 737 of Turkey's Crayton Airlines landed at an airport in the south of the country when it had a flat tire on its front wheels, but fortunately there were no casualties and all 190 people, including passengers and crew, were safely evacuated. According to Turkey's Ministry of Transport, the cause of the puncture was a damage to the landing gear struts when the plane landed.
On the 8th local time, the crew of a Boeing 767 freighter of FedEx found that the nose landing gear could not be opened during the critical stage of preparing for landing. The cargo plane then made a thrilling crash landing at Istanbul Airport in Turkey, but fortunately there were no casualties. Agence France-Presse reported that the frequent accidents of Boeing's aircraft are due to a number of reasons, including flaws in the aircraft's system design, problems in production and insufficient maintenance.
Source: CCTV Finance