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Corendon Airlines’ Boeing 737 Suffers Nose Landing Gear Failure At Turkey Airport Hours After Another Boeing Incident In Senegal

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May 9, 2024

This was disclosed by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) in a post shared on X, stating that the flight moved from Bonn-Konrad Adenauer Airport to Gazipasa-Alanya Airport.

A Boeing 737-85R belonging to Corendon Airlines tagged XC1031 on Thursday morning suffered a nose landing gear failure after landing on runway 08 at Gazipasa Airport (GZP) in Turkey.

This was disclosed by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) in a post shared on X, stating that the flight moved from Bonn-Konrad Adenauer Airport to Gazipasa-Alanya Airport.

ASN described the damage as substantial but stated that no fatality was recorded from the incident.

 

 

 

SaharaReporters earlier on Thursday reported that 10 people were injured on Wednesday when a Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.

This was confirmed by the country’s transport minister, Malick Ndiaye who revealed that the affected aircraft was an Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir.

He said the plane was headed to Bamako late Wednesday with 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew members.

The injured persons were being treated at a hospital, while the others were taken to a hotel to rest, the minister confirmed.

 

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Meanwhile, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will leave the company at the end of the year amid a major management shakeup.

 

Calhoun said in March that he would leave by 2024 ending.

 

Boeing’s chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving.

 

Boeing’s chairman, Larry Kellner, will not stand for re-election as a board director. Meanwhile, the board has elected former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf to succeed him.

 

The company also announced that Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is retiring.

Boeing planes have had issues in recent times including two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, and recently a door plug that blew out of the side of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane.

 

The problems have led to multiple groundings for safety issues and more than $31 billion in cumulative losses.