Most planes fly with their landing gear and wheels fully retracted, but Boeing's 737 still has its wheels exposed when it's ...

T he Airbus A330 is one of the most dynamic aircraft to have entered service. Balancing the long-range capabilities of a ...

Conventional metallic landing gear relies on elastic deformation to dissipate energy and plastic deformation to create a controlled failure mechanism. This well-established design approach enables the ...

According to early visual analysis, the Dreamliner failed to follow normal flight configuration shortly after liftoff ...

A fatigue fracture from improper maintenance caused an Alaska Airlines' landing gear failure during a 2023 flight, NTSB investigators revealed in a report.

“Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to collapse on an Alaska Airlines flight in 2023, the National ...