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231. LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was a Boeing 767 (registered SP-LPC) passenger jet on a scheduled service from Newark, United States, to Warsaw, Poland, that on 1 November 2011 made a successful gear-up emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, after its landing gear failed to extend. All 231 aboard survived without serious injuries.
A Boeing 737 from Southwest Airlines: 747: 18 wheels [1x2]+[4x4] A Boeing 747-400's main landing gear. Note the toes-up bias angle of the bogies on the wing gear, to ensure correct stowage upon retraction: 707, 720, 757, 767, 787: 10 wheels [1x2]+[2x4] A Boeing 757-200 from British Airways: 777: 14 wheels [1x2]+[2x6] A Boeing 777-200 from ...
The Boeing 767-400ER was publicly unveiled on August 26, 1999. [44] In January 1993, following an order from UPS Airlines, [52] Boeing launched a freighter variant, the 767-300F, which entered service with UPS on October 16, 1995. [44] The 767-300F featured a main deck cargo hold, upgraded landing gear, and strengthened wing structure. [53]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without its front landing gear, a Turkish Transport Ministry official said, adding there were no ...
Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [1] at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 to an emergency landing at a ...
The landing gear represents 2.5 to 5% of the maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) and 1.5 to 1.75% of the aircraft cost, but 20% of the airframe direct maintenance cost. A suitably-designed wheel can support 30 t (66,000 lb), tolerate a ground speed of 300 km/h and roll a distance of 500,000 km (310,000 mi) ; it has a 20,000 hours time between overhaul and a 60,000 hours or 20 year life time.
Wheel-well stowaways have been widely covered in the press and media at large throughout the history of passenger airlines.One of the most notable incidents involved Keith Sapsford (14) from Sydney, Australia, who fell 200 feet (60 m) to his death from the wheel-well of a Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 on February 24, 1970, shortly after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.
On April 26, 2013, a piece of the wing flap mechanism from a Boeing 767 was discovered wedged between two buildings at Park Place, near where other landing gear parts were found. [99] [100] The onboard defibrillator from Flight 11 was found in 2014 during roadworks near Liberty Street. [101]