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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after the landing gear of a cargo plane collapsed upon landing at the Honolulu airport this morning.

Nearly two years after passengers screamed while sparks flew down a runway during the landing of an Alaska Airlines flight, the cause has been revealed.

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.

“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 ...

The symbol of Britain's refusal to give up during that dark summer of 1940, the Spitfire won the hearts of both pilots and public in World War II. Regardless of the version, with either Rolls ...

Another issue was the Spitfire’s relatively long nose and, frankly, its puny landing gear. Although not quite as bad as the former two issues, these design flaws were not ideal.