A FedEx Airlines Boeing 767 cargo plane was doused in foam after it landed on its nose at Istanbul Airport, forcing its pilots to climb out of the cockpit window, videos shared by the Turkish Transport Ministry showed.
The cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport without deploying its front landing gear but managed to stay on the runway and avoided casualties.
The aircraft, flying from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, informed the control tower at Istanbul Airport that its landing gear had failed to open, and landed with guidance from the tower, the ministry said in its statement.
The aircraft involved is a nearly 10-year-old Boeing 767 freighter, one of the most common cargo planes and based on the 767 passenger model dating back to the 1980s.
The runway was temporarily closed to air traffic, but other runways at the airport were still operating normally, the airport operator IGA said.
