Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff

the front fell off, you say?

Working for Boeings PR department must be absolute madness right now… imagine having to somehow excuse all those fuck ups and every week there is a new one

How is this Boeings issue? This is a maintenance problem with the airline. Tires get replaced by maintenance staff. That plane isn’t brand new.

No worries, it has been towed outside of the environment.

The front usually isn't supposed to fall off

Which, as we know, is not supposed to happen.

If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.

Clickbait. The FAA lists the plane number as N672DL and a quick flight registry check says that plane was made in 1992. This is a maintenance issue with Delta.

Between door bolts missing, virgin airlines missing wing bolts, this nose wheel, etc

It almost feels like some kind of related systemic error in the very thorough maintenance documentation required for aircrafts, or a large scale sabotage of some sort.

Maybe Delta should've gotten the input of the focus group from I Think You Should Leave when trying to determine what they should do with their maintenance dollars.

Not during maintenance but while it was waiting for takeoff...

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

The old saying, "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going", it just needs slightly tweaked to be accurate today XD

Boeing laid off about 900 QA people back in 2019. Now they are reaping the rewards

Elsewhere: Airbus Christmas party budget doubles.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It happens

On some Boeing aircraft, the nose wheel will actually come off when the autopilot system overcompensates during takeoff and crashes the plane straight into the ground. There were aome small news stories about it a few years back.

It's a bad day to stop sniffing glue!

is this a new plane or is delta shirking on maintenance (delta's fleet is one of the oldest)

I feel uncomfortable as a taxpayer having inadvertently supported Boeing and they are literally falling apart.

You think Airbus is gonna expand its capacity to build even more planes?

This is (probably) not Boeings fault, it’s just that karma is striking back at them lol

Does this mean the landing gear wheel closest to the nose fell off?

Oh okay. Yeah I just listened to the audio recording. I guess yes that's what that means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYIC-Vq13xE&t=2

Seriously, they just can't catch a break. Can they?

Boeing Boom Chuck

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6c6FUVlzA

I imagine the soft, gentle music piped into the elevators and grounds of Boeing is this.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A nose wheel fell off a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 passenger jet and rolled away as the plane lined up for takeoff over the weekend from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson international airport in the US, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

According to a preliminary FAA notice, none of the 184 passengers or six crew members aboard were hurt in the incident.

The report said the aircraft was lining up and waiting for takeoff when the “nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill”.

The plane had been scheduled to fly to Bogotá, Colombia, and Delta said the passengers were put on a replacement flight, according to the New York Times, which broke the story late on Tuesday.

The newspaper said Boeing declined to comment and directed questions to the airline.

Nobody was seriously injured but the FAA grounded 171 MAX 9 jets and recommended inspections and remedying work.

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