A fatigue fracture from improper maintenance caused an Alaska Airlines' landing gear failure during a 2023 flight, NTSB investigators revealed in a report.

On August 20, 2023, the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 was landing at John Wayne-Orange County Airport in when the gear failed, sending sparks flying as the engine scraped the runway.

The National Transportation Safety Board revealed Tuesday that 'excessive grinding' during maintenance work is what caused an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737's left landing gear to collapse upon ...

“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 ...

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The Cobra C.L.A.W. vehicle features retractable landing gear with manually rolling wheels; pivoting canards, ailerons and wing tips; swivelling turret with barrel that articulates up and down; two ...

It didn’t have retractable landing gear, just a retractable nose gear. And it was very unusual in those days to build an airplane in a year of spare time. In fact, it’s still unusual.

For those out of the loop, the Rutan Long-EZ was a homebuilt swept-wing aircraft with a canard layout and wingtip rudders. It featured a pusher engine and propeller and a tricycle landing gear.

The U.S. Air Force had little success in replacing tires with tank-style tracks as landing gear on various aircraft during World War II.

Investigators say a high-speed descent led to a landing gear collapse that caused a Delta Air Lines plane to flip upside down in Toronto in February.

Investigators are focusing on a critical landing gear failure that caused a Delta Connection jet to crash-land at Toronto Pearson Airport.