Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A damaged Boeing 757-200 cargo jet operated by FedEx on the ground at the Chattanooga airport in Tennessee after an emergency ...

Various aircraft experienced landing gear failures, leading to collapses or damage, during extension, landing, or rollout. Root causes included structural failures (e.g., cracked welds, broken ...

Pilots of retractable gear aircraft must know and follow emergency gear extension procedures, accepting a gear-up landing as inevitable if these fail, with the priority being safe delivery of the ...

US investigators have determined that a broken wire prevented activation of the alternate undercarriage extension system on a FedEx Boeing 757-200 freighter, forcing the crew to conduct a gear-up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, in 2022 when its left landing gear collapsed, driving ...

Smiths Aerospace delivered landing gear extension and retraction system flight-test hardware for the Airbus A380. Smiths' work includes design, development, certification support and manufacturing of ...

Seeing an aircraft as large as the A350-1000 touch down harder than expected makes many worry, but these landings are never too much to cope with.