Boeing 767 plane’s nose crashes onto runway after it’s forced to make emergency landing

A Boeing 767 cargo plane has narrowly avoided a crash landing after its front landing gear failed.

The plane, belonging to the American postal company Fedex was on a flight from Paris to Istanbul at around 7:55am this morning.

It landed only at the second attempt and its nose ‘pecked’ into the runway.

No one was injured and the crew safely evacuated the aircraft, said Abdulkadir Uraloglu, Turkey’s transportation and infrastructure minister.

The runway where the plane landed was closed off while the aircraft was being removed, he said.

Following the incident, Istanbul Airport operator IGA said: ‘The accident was taken under control without any loss of life with the immediate intervention of the İGA Istanbul Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting team (ARFF), which was ready on the runway before the controlled landing on the fuselage.’

‘IGA Istanbul Airport Rescue and ARFF continues its efforts to move the aircraft to a safe area and open the runway to flight traffic. Flight traffic and operations continue smoothly on all other runways, including the spare runways.’

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