A few weeks ago a British Airways Boeing 787 suffered a nose gear collapse at Heathrow, and we now have a sense of what happened.
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Designwise, there seems to be some room for improvement here. Apparently, no-one at Boeing ever thought: hey, these two holes are exactly the same in size, and more or less next to each other, what could go possibly wrong?
Honestly, you have to admit it's funny that a ~$250 million plane can be so badly damaged by a little metal pin being put in the wrong hole!
The AD for put a plug in the Apex hole was issued prior to this incident with a 3 year implementation timeline. The AD hadn't been implemented on this aircraft yet.
@AJ0 Except that Boeing didn’t design it.
Safran Landing Systems is responsible for the design, development, qualification, testing, manufacture and support of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner main and nose landing gear.
Clearly though, this was an accident bound to happen AJO? It doesn’t take an engineer to see that. How could Safran Landing Gear or any of its customers ever have allowed such a ridiculously, obviously dangerous design to be built and then slip through? Shame on Boeing and British Airways, especially as an identical accident had already happened and a fix, (cap to cover the other hole) found and instructed.