--- title: "Boeing Plane Fails to Deploy Nose Landing Gear, Skids to a Halt on Runway" description: "A new video of an intense emergency landing in Istanbul shows a Boeing cargo plane failing to deploy some of its landing gears." date: "2024-05-08" modified: "2024-05-08" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-plane-nose-gear" categories: - "Boeing" - "Future Society" - "Space" tags: - "boeing" - "planes" - "safety" - "the digest" --- # Boeing Plane Fails to Deploy Nose Landing Gear, Skids to a Halt on Runway ![A new video of an intense emergency landing in Istanbul shows a Boeing cargo plane failing to deploy some of its landing gears.]() *\Image: Istanbul Airport\* ## Full Frontal Boeing's safety issues have once again been [caught on camera](), as a new video of an intense emergency landing in Istanbul shows one of its cargo planes failing to deploy some of its landing gears. As [*Reuters* reports](), a FedEx-operated Boeing 737 was recorded skidding to a halt at Istanbul Airport earlier this week as its front landing gears remained upright. As [now-viral CCTV videos]() of the incident show, the cargo plane's nose created such friction during its emergency landing that large plumes of fire were visible behind it. https://twitter.com/trthaber/status/1788111147557675221 As the report notes, the 10-year-old FedEx cargo plane had been flying from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport when its pilot informed the Istanbul Airport's control tower that the craft's front landing gears weren't deploying. With help from officials in the control tower, the plane landed safely, and as the CCTV footage of the incident shows, the pilots kept the nose of the plane upward in what the [SKYbrary aviation database describes]() as the emergency landing protocols when nose gears fail to deploy. Although firefighters were present at the scene and doused the plane with foam, no major fire ultimately broke out. The Turkish Transport Military confirmed to *Reuters* that there had been no injuries and that the agency was launching an investigation into the matter, which comes after months of bad press for Boeing as its planes keep [grabbing headlines]() over [safety problems](). ## Pile-Up Last June, as *Reuters* adds, a similar incident occurred at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina when the nose gears failed to deploy on a Delta-operated 717 passenger jet. As the [*FlightGlobal* website reported]() at the time, the small plane had 96 passengers, two pilots, and three flight attendants when it, too, was forced to land without its front gears. Luckily, no one was hurt during that debacle, either. Along with the [highly-publicizied safety issues](), the [resignation of its CEO](), and [multiple]() [US investigations](), Boeing has also come under fire after two of its whistleblowers died — one from an [allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound]() in March, and another from a [fast-spreading staph infection]() earlier this month. Clearly, things are falling apart at Boeing — and there's no telling how much worse it will get before things get any better. **More on Boeing:** [*Boeing Forced to Scrub First Astronaut Launch After Strange Buzzing Detected*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()