THIS is the heartbreaking moment a Boeing 747 was caught on camera bouncing off the runway in another major safety blunder.
The Lufthansa Airlines plane was seen dramatically crashing into the ground twice at Los Angeles Airport (LAX) before the pilot gave up and aborted the hard landing.
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Terrifying images broadcast live show Boeing’s largest jumbo jet, the 747-8i, plummeting toward the runway on Tuesday ready to land before disaster. strikes.
The reason for the pair of failed attempts is still unclear.
The images show that the moment the rear wheels scrape the ground, a gigantic cloud of white smoke flies towards the darling.
Before the plane rises upward and returns to the air for a few seconds.
The second landing attempt ends with an equally dismal result even though both sets of wheels landed this time.
I think that’s the hardest landing we’ve seen on our broadcast.
Kevin Ray
Once again it bounces off the ground and stands up ugly.
It’s unclear how many passengers were on board the horror flight, but the plane can seat 400, including crew.
The pilot eventually aborted the landing after the second major accident and became airborne again.
The chilling images were captured by regular aircraft enthusiasts Airline Videos Live and posted on their website.
The group’s owner, Kevin Ray, can be heard commenting on the clip while shouting, “Holy shit!
“I think that’s the roughest landing we’ve ever caught on our broadcast.”
Ray went on to say that he could smell the rubber tires burning as they squeaked on the hard track.
The nine-year-old plane managed to land successfully after a short time circling the airport, leaving many baffled as to what caused the errors.
The Sun has contacted Boeing and Lufthansa Airlines for comment.
THE COMPLAINTANT SPEAKS
Brave Sam Salehpour described how he witnessed workers jumping on airplane parts to force them to fit into “defective” planes.
He went on to say that Boeing bosses told him to “shut up” and threatened him after consistently raising serious safety concerns about how the planes were being assembled.
Salehpour participated in explosive back-to-back US Congressional hearings this week while testing with his employers.
The engineer worked at Boeing for a decade and claims he tried to warn them of his concerns for much of that period.
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At the congressional hearing, Salehpour said, “I’m not here today because I want to be here.
“I’m here because I feel like I have to step forward because I don’t want to see a 787 or another 777 crash.
“They ignored me, they told me not to create delays, they told me, frankly, to shut up…
“My boss said, ‘I would have killed someone who said what you said’ during a meeting.”
Chaos through the roof: A timeline of Boeing incidents
BOEING has been at the center of increasingly worrying reports in recent months due to failures in its aircraft.
April 2018- Woman dies after being partially sucked out of the window of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight
October 2018 – The fatal crash of the Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia leaves 189 dead
March 2019 – The fatal crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 leaves 157 dead
January 2024 – Delta Airlines Boeing 747 loses front wheel
January 2024 – Boeing Alaska Airlines broke a window leaving a gaping hole in the plane
March 2024 – Wheel falls off United Airlines Boeing 777 plane, destroying cars below
March 2024 – The Boeing 787 LATAM LA800 suffered a “sudden fall” that left 50 injured
April 2024 – Boeing 737 engine cover ripped off in mid-air
April 2024 – Wheel falls off and smoke rises from Boeing 737 FlySafair FA212 in South Africa
April 2024 – Boeing 747-8i fails to land after crashing twice onto runway
Their biggest problems were how the 787 planes were assembled over the past three years.
In one of the shocking claims, he said: “I literally saw people jumping on pieces of the plane to align them.
“I repeatedly made reports to my supervisor and Boeing management that gaps in the 787 were not being properly measured and shimmed at two major joints on the 787.”
Salehpour found that major gaps were reported on 29 aircraft but were not addressed a staggering 98.7 percent of the time.
In another 80 percent of cases, unclosed holes ended up filled with debris, he told Congress.
I’m scared but I’m at peace. If something happens to me, I’m at peace. I feel that by taking the step I am saving many lives.
Sam Salehpour
Salehpour said all of his complaints were ignored and he was forced to move from one project to another because of his damning reports.
He even made accusations saying that he received death threats for his criticism.
“I’m scared but I’m at peace. “If something happens to me, I’m at peace,” she said.
“I feel like by coming forward I’m saving a lot of lives.”
Another former Boeing employee turned whistleblower, John Barnett, 62, gave testimony against the company just days before he died from a “self-inflicted” wound.
He had been providing evidence of alleged wrongdoing at Boeing to investigators working on a lawsuit against the company at the time of his death, according to the bbc.
In 2019, he told reporters that he had seen workers deliberately putting low-quality parts into airplanes on the production line.
Barnett claimed that defective parts were mishandled and sometimes lost or refitted onto planes from the company’s scrapyard to meet production deadlines.
It also alleged that it had discovered major problems in some of the planes’ oxygen systems that could cause one in four masks to malfunction.
He also says his complaints were ignored.
BOEING’S RESPONSE
Boeing has always maintained that its 787 and 777 planes are safe to fly.
Engineers on Monday rejected Salehpour’s claims, saying that airplane metal surfaces do not fatigue.
According to Boeing, 165,000 flights were examined and no signs of fatigue were recorded on any of them.
A Boeing spokesperson previously told The Sun: “Since 2020, Boeing has risen in importance Steps Foster a safety culture that empowers and encourages all employees to speak up.
“We know we have more work to do and we are taking action across our business.
“We continue to put safety and quality above all else and share information transparently with our regulator, customers and other stakeholders.”
FATAL AIR CALAMITIES
Boeing has also been involved in some horrible and fatal experiences in the last decade.
On March 10, 2019, 157 passengers were killed when an Ethiop Airlines flight crashed after taking off from an airport in Addis Ababa.
Nine British passengers died on the flight, two more than initially expected.
It was the second incident in less than six months after a new flight by Lion Air’s Boeing 737 Max 8 over the Java Sea in October 2018.
Tragically, 189 people died in Indonesia moments after the pilot reported “technical difficulties.”
According to the company’s CEO, the plane was repaired the night before.
And in 2018, a woman was killed when a piece of engine casing tore off a Southwest Airlines 737 and destroyed the window adjacent to her seat.
Seven other people were injured.
Boeing continues to be put under pressure over a series of “defective” aircraft after hundreds of deaths, accidents and calamities have been linked to the company.
Boeing has been sued by shareholders alleging that the company prioritized profits over safety, according to Reuters.
In February, the FAA concluded that Boeing had “a lack of understanding of safety-related metrics at all levels.”
It comes as shocking footage shows the moment a wheel fell off a Boeing 777 flying over California, grounding the Japan-bound flight.
Footage shows cars smashed to the ground when the wheel collided with parked engines.
A terrifying video also captured the moment the engine cover of a Boeing 737 was torn off in mid-air earlier this month.
One pilot was even forced to turn his plane around after poop got into the cabin of a Boeing 777 due to a faulty toilet.
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