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THREE Boeing crashes in two days: Terrified passengers scramble to escape burning jet in Senegal and tyre explodes on 737 landing in Turkey - 24 hours after nose gear failure caused 767 to slam into runway

DAILYMAIL.COM
By DAVID AVERRE and CHRIS JEWERS
9 May 2024

A Boeing plane's tyre burst during landing in Turkey today, the third passenger aircraft built by the manufacturing giant to suffer a technical problem or crash in just two days.

A total of 190 people were evacuated from the aircraft after the Boeing 737-800, belonging to Turkey-based Corendon Airlines, stopped on the runway after landing at Gazipasa airport near the Mediterranean coastal town of Alanya.

Pictures from the scene today showed the stationary aircraft on the tarmac flanked by emergency vehicles - its front wheels and landing gear crumpled underneath. Corendon Airlines denied Turkish reports that the aircraft had landed on its nose.

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PeteS in CA:

--- Quote ---A Boeing plane's tyre burst during landing in Turkey today, the third passenger aircraft built by the manufacturing giant to suffer a technical problem or crash in just two days.
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Boeing does not manufacture or design tyres or tires. This is an obvious maintenance problem or a defective tire, not a Boeing problem/issue.


--- Quote ---... nose gear failure caused 767 to slam into runway
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The Boeing 767 has been in production for over 40 years, so this is not a design problem. And unless this plane was new from the factory or a very few months old, this was a maintenance  problem, not a production problem.


--- Quote ---And just this morning, shocking footage emerged showing the moment terrified passengers fled a burning Boeing 737-300 jet carrying 78 passengers that skidded off the runway and caught fire during take-off in Senegal.
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The 737-300 ceased production about 30 years ago.

Three crashes/accident, none caused by Boeing design or manufacture.

If one reads as far is the 6th paragraph, one might read:


--- Quote ---There is no suggestion Boeing are to blame for the crashes, and the cause of the Senegal crash is not yet known.
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But the very next paragraph is:


--- Quote ---But the incidents will only compound woes for the company which is already facing intense scrutiny amid a string of mishaps and controversy over safety concerns - as well as the deaths of two whistleblowers just two months apart.
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WTH?! How is crappy maintenance and/or piloting even slightly a problem for Boeing? If Airbus sold as many jets as Boeing their planes would be in crashes just as often ... though US and Euro MSM probably would call out Airbus less often.

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