The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that a broken wire and hydraulic fluid leaks caused the landing gear failure on the FedEx Boeing 757. This conclusion was included in the ...

Pilots of retractable-gear aircraft must thoroughly know their specific emergency extension procedures, and if these fail, accept the inevitable gear-up landing to prioritize occupant safety over ...

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 NASA research aircraft made a gear-up landing in Houston, after experiencing a mechanical issue on Tuesday, January 27, ...

More than eight times each week. Well over $1 million every month. These are very conservative estimates of the rate of gear-up and gear-collapse landings among factory-built, piston-engine airplanes ...

A NASA research plane slid to a stop on its belly at Ellington Airport in Houston on Tuesday after its landing gear failed to deploy, sending flames across the runway, as two crew members braced ...

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 landed on its belly 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 final ...

We all know flying an aircraft is not for the weak of heart, but, used as we are to be taken safely from place to place, most of the time we tend to take the people in the cockpit for granted. That’s ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A small plane experiencing landing gear issues made a hard landing at Honolulu’s Airport around 9 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say Transair flight R96, a Short SD3-60 ...

US investigators have determined that a gear-up landing involving a Cessna Citation V business jet at Dallas occurred because its pilot simply forgot to extend the undercarriage during approach. The ...