Cargolux Boeing 747 Loses Part Of Landing Gear Following Emergency Landing

[@jonty1591]

The 747 is an awesome aircraft. Am glad even after the wheels came off the aircraft didn’t get lopsided. Glad to know the crew and all emergency workers are safe

[@gtaviation6924]

The 747 still being stable proves that its a strong bird.

[@bradlemmond]

Of course, The Queen is graceful.

[@barnalisarkar3248]

😈😈

[@tpr1808]

Reminds me of that China airlines plane that broke apart mid air after flying for almost 2 decades with a mended crack at the tail

[@0w3nn]

@@tpr1808china airlines flight 611. Also don’t forget jal 123

[@simplymrklmYT]

The queen never dies

[@richardp1522]

Just proves again how supremely engineered this great air frame really is and how sad its discontinuation is. When piloted by properly trained dedicated flight crews the combination are amazing. Really sad to see the resulting damage but no doubt Cargolux will get her back in the sky with a complete set of landing gear at some point. Seeing as its way too early to comment on possible causes and responsibilities we'll leave it there except to say very pleased no one was injured in the incident.. Kudos to the Cargolux flight crew for a job more than well done.

[@robinvanags912]

Wise words.

[@commerce-usa]

This incident brings a whole new meaning to 74 gear. 🤣. Glad the aircraft was able to land safely. Even the offending wheel truck made it over to the maintenance facility by itself.

[@trk3707]

can't wait for it.

[@killerbees177]

Boeing has been making strong planes since WW2

[@PavlosPapageorgiou]

Well I've never seen that kind of incident. Gear not extending or not locking in the extended position has happened often, but I've never heard of the whole 4-wheel assembly detaching like that.

[@billszalkowski7025]

An incident like this would pose the question about how thorough is the maintenance program. Also, it is obvious this is a mechanical failure. Ultimately, the landing gear frame or linkage must have sustained damage during the prior landing or sustained damage related to metal fatigue. Either way it is a blessing the crew was not injured!

[@DirbyOne]

Glad no one was killed!

[@ye6207]

"What are your thoughts on this latest Cargolux incident?" - No, the latest Cargolux incident was yesterday 20th of May 2023. It seems that it hasn't been a good month for Cargolux. All these incidents, are they a coincidence or is something going wrong at Cargolux?

[@davidkavanagh189]

Coincidence.

[@johnsilva5020]

Doesn't Captain Joe fly Cargolux? I wonder if he or Kelsey from 74Gear will cover this incident as well. Or an in depth coverage from Mentour pilot.

[@mikestone9129]

Sounds like Cargolux has a maintenance problem, someone screwed the pooch and didn't do their job.

[@davidkavanagh189]

No it doesn't. That was a freak failure. It will be interesting to find out the cause

[@heidirabenau511]

Another incident like this involving Cargolux happened yesterday.

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

It was more a faulty indicator that was quickly fixed as the low fly done revealed all the landing gear was working and deployed

[@johniii8147]

Good thing that didn't happen in Chicago. Would have done a lot more damage at the airport given how busy it is with that flying wheel gear.

[@BRTripReport]

Thankfully no one got injured! Hope there wasn’t any urgent cargo onboard! 😅

[@Rasscasse]

I am wondering where the fuel dump area for that aircraft was? Would it have been over the North Sea ? Surely not over land?

[@barnalisarkar3248]

In 0:49 we can see that they where not too far away from LIX as they headed towards ORD. So they dumped fuel in near by area.

[@Rasscasse]

@@barnalisarkar3248 Interesting. Luxembourg is very small and it’s very close to 3 other countries. So it’s possible that they dumped fuel in Belgium or in France or even in Germany

[@Grzegorz_M.]

Thanks for posting. Now I know 😉

[@jantschierschky3461]

Just wondering how much damage the fuel dump has done. Lot's of important environment in that arena, eg water catchment.

[@psoon04286]

The fuel would have vaporized

[@jantschierschky3461]

@Philip Soon not at that low level. Kerosene does not evaporate that easily.

[@SHADOWW18]

fuel dumps dont just happen, they're controlled. They are in specified areas. Everything is taken into consideration from air speed to height the dump takes place to the area and surrounding areas and waterways etc. The fuel should vaporise if you believe the authorities... im not fully convinced of that myself

[@jantschierschky3461]

@stuart m you look at the flightpath, all those areas are sensitive. There is no way plane went to 30k feet to dump. Below 10 000 kerosene is like a fog on the ground, being a 747 loaded for transatlantic, that is a lot of fuel.

[@TB-um1xz]

​@@jantschierschky3461I believe they found that around 7k feet is the minimum fuel dumping altitude

[@cellpat2686]

This incident can be one of the reasons many years ago Boeing gave extra wheels to the 747s MLG. That besides its big weight.

[@dolcevita1706]

One mayday declaration on 30.10.2022, one serious landing incident on 15.04.2023, and another major one on 15.05.2023. And now another landing gear issue on 20.05.2023. (Not mentioning their circus act some years ago with the wing wave).

[@davidkavanagh189]

Means nothing. Coincidence. What was the serious one on 15.05.23?

[@phildavey3135]

21/01/2010…same aircraft landing on same runway in CAT IIIb conditions hit roof of maintenance vehicle parked just off runway c/l damaging aircraft tyre and vehicle roof. Actually same gear leg that separated in this incident was the one that hit the vehicle in 2010. 🤔

[@davidkavanagh189]

@@phildavey3135 Interesting!

[@David09SM]

Different plane id @@phildavey3135

[@SeefDarwish]

since i live in belgium and i know the whole benelux area... where did the 747 dump its fuel?...

[@happilyham6769]

How on earth does something like that happen?

[@danharold3087]

A better question would be why it does not happen more often. Landing gear on a heavy plane like this are under tremendous forces. Landing gear are simply so good they make it look easy. Like falcon 9 launches.

[@cdl0]

Looks like the damage will buff out. :-) The engine is normally named RB-two-eleven, by the way.

[@saeedali1542]

@captain joe

[@SHADOWW18]

haha my thoughts as well

[@saeedali1542]

İ saw his story after this incident few days ago. He just finished his Leg (flight) before this incident 😂

[@eamonahern7495]

One of their pilots has a youtube channel. I forget his name

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

Captain Joe

[@eamonahern7495]

@@filledwithvariousknowledge2747 that's the one

[@Sithvulcan76]

The 747 is certified to land with 2 of its four main landing gear in operative. I don't know what would be the weight limits are in that situation. The 747 has two main body gears located in the middle while the two outside mains are sometimes referred to wing gears. I worked at a landing gears overhaul plant many moons ago.

[@itzfaroff456]

Whew it wasn't a -8 atleast

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

This old Damage Boeing 747-400 Freighter should be Replaced by the Newest Boeing 747-800 Freighter or Smaller Efficient Freighter Aircraft such as Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 Freighter.

[@thevintagehifiambassador8524]

Flop gear I would say

[@tscotom]

Lightning strikes TWICE @ CargoLux ??? Hmmm, "something $mell$ rotten in Denmark."

[@jamiesworld1690]

This shows tge b747 is the world's most dangerous aircraft in the world

[@heidirabenau511]

Source- Me when I'm high

[@BigPops757]

Yeah let’s just ignore the fact that all aircraft models have issues sometimes.

[@filledwithvariousknowledge2747]

@Jamie World is another conspiracist like @Damsom

[@heidirabenau511]

​@@filledwithvariousknowledge2747 I have reported their channel.

[@andrewdrone]

​@@heidirabenau511me too