A Boeing plane’s tire burst during landing in Turkey today, the third passenger aircraft built by the manufacturing giant to suffer a technical problem or crash in just two days.
A total of 190 people were evacuated from the aircraft after the Boeing 737-800, belonging to Turkey-based Corendon Airlines, stopped on the runway after landing at Gazipasa airport near the Mediterranean coastal town of Alanya.
Pictures from the scene today showed the stationary aircraft on the tarmac flanked by emergency vehicles – its front wheels and landing gear crumpled underneath. Corendon Airlines denied Turkish reports that the aircraft had landed on its nose.
Is it bad Boeing design and construction, or is it pilot error and poor maintenance?
@Thirdtwin… I’d go with the latter. Or both.
Did Boing make the tire?
At this point my guess would be a DEI pilot making a hard landing, but who knows until the facts come out.
My Chevy truck had a blowout when I drove over a curb at 60 mph. Then another truck had the door tore off when I opened it into oncoming traffic. Damn Chevy’s.
@Harry,
GoodYear makes the tires, another woke company.
It was a rhetorical question, but the point is Boing didn’t.
Probably 1000’s of aviation mishaps happen on a daily basis, but it’s only those involving Boeing we hear about. Granted Boeing brought it upon itself but this is getting ridiculous.
Took a flight from Denver to Memphis the other day. I hate to say it but I did an internal sigh of relief when I saw I was in an Airbus “built in Germany”.
Not happy about it but Boeing should be more concerned about its reputation than advertising DEI.
It used to be called Sabotage, and it’s no accident.