Singapore Airlines jet collapses during airport check
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A SINGAPORE Airlines jet collapsed yesterday morning with no passengers or crew on board as an engineer conducted routine landing checks before a scheduled flight from Singapore to Hong Kong, the airline said.
The nose gear of an Airbus A330-300 “retracted while the aircraft was undergoing a landing gear system check, the company said in a statement.
“There were no passengers or crew on board at the time. One engineer who was on the aircraft was not injured. Singapore Airlines will be cooperating fully with the authorities,” it said, adding that the damage to the plane would be assessed later.
The plane had been due to serve flight SQ890, scheduled to depart for Hong Kong from Singapore’s Changi Airport at 7:35am. It had arrived from Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport in the early hours of the morning.
Another plane was used for the flight to Hong Kong, taking off more than 40 minutes after the scheduled departure time.
On May 23, another Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300 temporarily lost power in both engines on a flight from Singapore to Shanghai.
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