Landing with the nose gear turned 90 degrees “is not going to cause the plane to swerve off the runway,” Green said. A huge plume of flame shot from the front wheels of Flight 292 as it landed.

While preliminary global data gathered by Airbus show an average of barely one such nose-gear malfunction every two years since the launch of the A320 jet family in the late 1980s, regulators and ...

This is what happens when you land an Airbus A320 with the front landing gear locked at a 90-degree angle. None of the 146 passengers and crew was hurt aboard the dramatic Kennedy Airport-bound Jet… ...

JetBlue's emergency landing late Wednesday in Los Angeles with the nose landing gear turned 90 degrees on an Airbus A320 wasn't the first time the airline landed an aircraft with the gear in that ...

After the initial investigation, the NTSB will look at maintenance records for other Airbus A320 aircraft, Mr. Plagens said. Investigators will review other instances involving the popular plane’s ...

LOS ANGELES — The problems with JetBlue Flight 292 marked at least the seventh time that the front landing gear of an Airbus jet has locked at a 90-degree angle, forcing pilots to land ...

The most grotesquely overhyped of these stories was the 2005 saga of JetBlue Flight 292, an Airbus A320 that touched down at LAX with its nose gear twisted. The forward landing gear had not ...

The incident bears a striking resemblance to more than a dozen other A320 nose-gear incidents, including the high-profile emergency landing of a JetBlue Airways A320 in September 2005.

A pointy-nose Airbus Retrofitting the A320 with a fighter nose cone is a more efficient approach to the testing cycle thanks to less time on the ground assembling or modifying a Eurofighter for ...

Thirty-six employees joined the Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line in Mobile, Ala., in October 2014, the largest new-hire class since plans were unveiled in July 2012 to construct the $600 million ...