Gazipasa Airport near the Turkish city of Alanya was forced to close after the tires of a Boeing 737 exploded during landing, AP writes.
According to Turkish media, the plane skidded nose down the runway, but none of the 190 people on board appear to have been injured.
Corendon Airlines denies that the plane landed on the nose.
And in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, a plane of the same model caught fire after skidding off the runway earlier today. On board the plane were 79 passengers and six crew members. Eleven have been taken to hospital with unclear injuries.
Harsh criticism
Boeing and their largest supplier Spirit have faced harsh criticism during the spring. It started in January when an airplane door on a brand new 737 plane came off thousands of feet above Portland.
A subsequent investigation by the US aviation authority FAA found that the companies had broken down in their quality controls, and several whistleblowers have told of serious shortcomings.
Two of the whistleblowers have taken their own lives.
Another accident in Turkey
On Tuesday, the FAA launched another investigation after it emerged that employees have falsified inspection documents during the production of the 787 Dreamliner model.
Yesterday, a Boeing 767 transport aircraft had to make an emergency landing at Istanbul airport after the front landing gear stuck. Nor should anyone have been injured there.