The main landing gear extends and retracts largely the same ... Furthermore, there has never been a widebody aircraft with exposed main gear wells. When the landing gear is retracted, the wheels ...

Because people flying on aircraft as stowaways must stay within the landing gear area, they face other risks too, such as being crushed in a confined space when the gears retract, falling when the ...

Landing gear compartments, located under an aircraft’s wings and at the front ... open and close upon takeoff and landing to deploy and retract wheels and other landing components, and other ...

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717, which landed "nose down" two years ago at North Carolina's Charlotte-Douglas International ...

THE REPORT NOTES, BECAUSE STOWAWAYS MUST STAY WITHIN THE LANDING GEAR AREA, THEY FACE RISKS LIKE BEING CRUSHED WHEN THE GEARS RETRACT, FALLING WHEN THE PLANE IS LANDING OR DYING FROM THE HEAT ...

The pilot was unable to retract the landing gear after takeoff. The plane would have immediately landed, but the landing gear wouldn’t fully lower either, said Kevin Ploehn, director of aviation ...

The landing gear compartment - also called a wheel well - is a section underneath the aircraft which stores the retractable landing gear. A 2011 report by the US regulator, the Federal Aviation ...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — A landing gear issue may have played a role in a deadly plane crash at Scottsdale airport earlier this month. In a preliminary report released by the National Transportation ...

Two people were found dead inside the landing gear of a JetBlue commercial airplane that landed Monday evening in Florida, according to reports. The aircraft had landed at Fort Lauderdale ...

The report lays out how Learjet 35A owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil crashed into another aircraft after its landing gear appeared to fail, causing it to veer off the runway, killing a ...