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 safety report says the 2018 crash landing of a passenger aircraft at an airport in Newfoundland and Labrador was due to a loss of hydraulic fluid in the plane’s front landing gear. In its ...

Excessive build-up of this vibration is prevented by a shimmy damper on the aft side of the landing-gear leg, between the upper and lower torque links. It features a reservoir of hydraulic fluid ...