A locking pin that was meant to secure the main nose gear of a Lufthansa Boeing 787 Dreamliner that collapsed at Frankfurt Airport as engineers carried out maintenance on the brand new aircraft was not inserted into the correct hole. Instead, the locking pin found was found in a storage box in the avionics bay below the plane’s cockpit, aircraft accident investigators have revealed.

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[–] [S] 15 points 3 months ago

A photo of the pin can be found on page 11 of the official Interim Report published by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung)

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