FRIGHT FLIGHT
Jet is forced to land on two wheels after nose gear fails
A PASSENGER jet heading for Inverness was forced to land at Belfast with no front wheel yesterday.
Fifty-six people were on board Flybe flight BE331 when it carried out an emergency landing with the nose of the plane unsupported.
The Bombardier Q-400 had taken off from Belfast City airport bound for the Highland capital when the pilot delared an emergency.
The plane burned fuel in a holding pattern for about two hours before landing at Belfast International airport with the runway closed to other aircraft.
A Flybe spokeswoman said: “Flybe can confirm that there has been an incident involving one of our Bombardier Q-400 aircraft, which landed with no nose gear in place.”
Flybe later said one passenger was taken to hospital with a minor hand injury. No other casualties were reported. A BRAVE widow reaches out to touch her dead husband’s face – a year after she agreed to donate it to another man.
Lilly Ross’s husband Calen took his own life in 2016, aged just 21. She had already agreed to donate his organs when doctors told her of a man awaiting a face transplant.
Andy Sandness,32, had blown most of his own face off in a failed suicide bid almost a decade ago – and Calen was a perfect donor match.
Now, after meeting at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where Andy had his lifechanging transplant, he and Lilly feel like family. Lilly said: “Meeting Andy has finally given me closure.”