Several employees were injured after the front nose gear of a Lufthansa Airlines-operated Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner collapsed while parked at a gate at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday afternoon, according to the German airline.
The plane was being prepared for a flight to Los Angeles when "the aircraft’s nose gear unexpectedly retracted while it was parked," the airline said in a statement to ABC News.
No passengers were onboard the aircraft at the time of the incident, the airline added, only "crew members and ground staff."
"Several people sustained minor injuries – two Lufthansa cabin crew members and other employees from service providers were taken to a hospital for medical treatment," according to the airline. The nature of the employees' injuries was not immediately clear.
