Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt

Post by layer8 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 7:16 PM UTC

well_actulily wrote: post #58

layer8 wrote: post #55

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I edited my post after verifying the actual bytes, it turned out to be slightly more complicated.

The double-encoding path gets you there too: the original UTF-8 \xE2 \x80 \x99 mis-decoded as iso-8859-1 or Windows-1252 and saved back as UTF-8 gives \xC3 \xA2 \xC2 \x80 \xC2 \x99, which in Windows-1252 renders as ’. A WYSIWYG cleanup replacing that mojibake with the Windows-1252 ' (byte 0x92) and saving back as UTF-8 gets you to \xC2 \x92 on disk. Edit: Although maybe that's not the most parsimonious explanati…

Post by pimlottc » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 8:17 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #23

I don't understand how that caused several injuries among a pretty small group (staff)? Google says front wheel is about 1.68m. High but not crazy high. Plane body and people fall at same speed and it would be slower than actual freefall since the plane is vaguely balance-ish on rear wheels I'm sure the reporting is right but feels counterintuitive to me

Post by ninju » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

dragontamer wrote: post #10

binaryturtle wrote: post #4

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I duckduckgo'ed "nose gear collapse" earlier and it seems it may be an issue that's more common than expected? At least there were lots of images of airplanes with broken front wheels and the nose touching the floor.

This is a joke about "The Front Fell Off", a classic comedy video from a few decades ago.

Post by rjsw » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC

red_admiral wrote: post #48

midiguy wrote: post #6

So a plane which has withstood probably countless landings, had its nose gear collapse while sitting statically at a gate of all times and places? Weird.

There's a story that during the testing of a fighter plane - I think the F-35 but not sure - the "developers" claimed the new computer systems made most pilot errors all but impossible. QA engineer's first check was, what happens if I try and retract the wheels while the plane is sitting on the ground and not moving. Oops.

Post by phil21 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

dheera wrote: post #65

stefan_ wrote: post #61

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I think the report says they just put a little cover on the hole where the pin shouldn't go (but can).

Sure, but they probably took 3 years to have a design review, an executive review, some firings and layoffs, re-hire, orientation, a sprint planning meeting, a sprint retro, a post mortem, an OKR meeting, a KPI meeting, an all-hands, and then the cover probably got stuck in customs with tariffs, and then the tolerances probably weren't correct. Meanwhile the sharpie would take 1 minute.