SAN DIEGO — The pilot of an experimental aircraft over the South Bay declared an aircraft emergency Saturday morning after he realized his landing gear would not lock into place. Officials said the ...
Passengers aboard a flight from Rio de Janiero were bracing for a crash landing at New York’s JFK Airport, when the plane’s landing gear miraculously locked into place.
May 27 (UPI) --A Delta Air Lines Boeing 717, which made an emergency landing two years ago and skidded "nose down" at North Carolina's Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, could not lower its ...
A fractured landing gear component prevented the pilots of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 from lowering the nose gear during a flight on 28 June that ended with a gear-up landing. That is according to a ...
NTSB report finds nose gear failure on Boeing 717-200 was caused by a fatigue fracture linked to manufacturing defects. Pilots attempted multiple gear extension methods before declaring an emergency ...