Boeing again, wheels this time.
Watch those sparks fly and know that the Shareholders are getting their cut and that makes everything ok on Planet Earth
@Lazarou That's not a crash per IATA definitions: it's a landing the crew walked away from and the plane will fly again. (They're designed to survive a gear-up landing because landing gear sometimes jams.) Also, the 767 first flew in 1981: it's Old Boeing and fairly safe (unlike the 787 and MAX, the latest news of which is genuinely alarming—factory personnel skipping essential QA checks).
@cstross@Lazarou It'll be interesting to find out what happened to the landing gear.
I can't decide if I'm hoping more for something mundane ("The service tech left their sandwich in the joint") or something novel ("Oh, now we have to account for this kind of metal fatigue?! Why do you hate the universe being predictable, O uncaring gods?!")
@mark@Lazarou It was already an item on the Aviation Herald yesterday. Landing gear is under a lot of stress during take-off and touchdown. Per AVHerald the pilots aborted their initial approach when they got a warning that the gear wasn't down and locked: they followed the checklist for a gear-up landing, which looks a lot more dramatic than it is. (Some replacement skin panels and new nose gear doors, plus a fix for whatever jammed or broke, and it'll be flying again.)
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