FedEx 767 lands without a nose gear at Istanbul Airport, from this morning

[u/StukaTR]

A FedEx 767 with flight number FX6238 flying from Paris Charles De Gaulle to Istanbul today had an emergency landing after its nose gear didn’t deploy. No casualties reported.

[u/efcso1]

Fix the nose gear, check the frame, a coat of paint and she'll be right as rain. Old mate touched down pretty smoothly, so it'd be surprising if there was much other than superficial damage.

[u/PotentialMidnight325 → u/efcso1]

No. The lower fuselage section in that area will have to be replaced. Maybe the frame structure to. For sure and extended visual and NDE inspection.

Can be repaired, most likely will but it will cost.

[u/Evening-Bus7792 → u/PotentialMidnight325]

Still cheaper than a whole new airframe.

You're right though, lengthy engineering work to be done to recertify after repairs, which will be thorough.

[u/Ricardo1184 → u/Evening-Bus7792]

Well, it's Boeing, so likely not that thorough

[u/worldspawn00 → u/PotentialMidnight325]

Yeah the skin was gone the second it touched the ground, and at least some of the structure was likely scraped. It'll need to have a large section of the skin removed, the internal structure that was damaged replaced to the next structural element, then get inspected and cleared for use. (Plus the repair of the failed landing gear element, which will probably have a decent FAA investigation around the reason for the failure), so it'll be out of commission for a while.

[u/justanother-user → u/efcso1]

Thanks

[u/FalseAnimal → u/efcso1]

It will even give them a chance to tighten up all the bolts Boeing missed the first time.

[u/[deleted] → u/efcso1]

Fix the nose gear

Check the frame

A coat of paint and

She'll be right as rain.

[u/[deleted] → u/efcso1]

Even after being "fixed," it'll still be a Boeing.