Overview
- A Boeing 787-9 preparing to depart for Los Angeles had its nose gear retract during a maintenance test on June 4, 2026, and the forward fuselage struck the ramp.
- Investigators from the BFU reported that the nose-gear locking pin was not installed and was later found in a storage box under the cockpit.
- Two technicians had moved the landing-gear lever to the 'UP' position during a test to reset a fault in the main-gear-door system immediately before the collapse.
- Emergency crews pumped about 60 tonnes of fuel, used airbags to lift the nose until the gear extended on its own, and 23 people were treated for injuries, two of them serious.
- The BFU interim report records facts and cites Boeing manuals that warn pins must be fitted before such tests, but it does not assign a final cause and further technical, human, and organizational probes plus any safety recommendations are pending.