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 ...

Investigators probing the cause of the worst civil aviation accident ever in South Korea will focus on a bird strike and the unusual landing-gear failure in the final moments of the fateful flight ...

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 ...