US investigators have disclosed that a hydraulic system failure just after take-off preceded the gear-up landing by a FedEx Boeing 757-200 freighter at Chattanooga earlier this month.

A FedEx plane landed with its landing gear up, skidding off the runway in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2023 after a leak in a hydraulic hose caused the system to fail and a broken wire kept the ...

Investigators said Friday they found hydraulic fluid leaking from a hose in the landing gear system of a FedEx plane that was forced to make an emergency landing this month in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A few seconds after takeoff, the FedEx crew retracted its landing gear. But less than 30 seconds after that, they noticed that hydraulic fluid on the left side of the plane started to decrease.

Iranian investigators probing a gear-up landing involving an Iran Air Fokker 100 believe a failure in one of the aircraft's two main hydraulic systems led to the accident.

Investigators said Friday they found hydraulic fluid leaking from a hose in the landing gear system of a FedEx plane that was forced to make an emergency landing this month in Chattanooga, Tennessee.