Investigators revealed that the incident was caused by a "fatigue crack" of a metal trunnion pin, which is part of the left landing gear. The fracture formed from excessive grinding during a 2018 ...

This is the terrifying moment a light aircraft was seen touching down on the tarmac without its landing gear. Footage shows the small plane heading towards the runway, its wheels not deployed and ...

On August 20, 2023, the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 was landing at John Wayne-Orange County Airport in California when the gear failed, sending sparks flying as the engine scraped the runway.

US News Cause of failed Alaska Airlines landing gear that sent passengers screaming revealed By Bonny Chu, Pilar Arias , Fox News Published May 30, 2025, 5:44 a.m. ET ...

The A330 and A340, which were released in the 1990s, both feature rear-tilting landing gear, while the newer A380 and A350-900 use a forward tilt. As discussed previously, the A350-1000's gear is ...

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 landed on its belly up after a crack in a part of the supports for the nose landing gear kept it from extending, according to a National Transportation Safety Board ...

Brazilian investigators have revealed that a ATR 42-300 landed with its undercarriage retracted despite each pilot's separately calling that the landing-gear had been extended. The MAP aircraft ...

“The landing gear of tomorrow may look the same, but it should be lighter and more reliable, for example,” says Schmidt. Electric-powered taxiing is also back on the agenda.

A 20-year-old Romanian man found a unique way to visit London: He hid inside the landing-gear well of a Boeing 747 and miraculously survived the 90-minute flight from Vienna.

A poor approach—one that is too fast, too high, not lined up, etc.—leads to a poor landing. If you read the NTSB reports, you will note that some of the landing accidents happened when the ...