Aircraft are categorized by weight with one key function: to calculate how far behind the succeeding aircraft should follow.

Conversely, life is pretty easy for a tailwheel. Consisting of a beefy leaf spring that, at rest, might only suspend 60-100 ...

NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. (WHDH) - A small airplane made a hard landing at Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover Monday. SKY7-HD spotted the aircraft off the side of the airport’s runway.

It's hard to say (or admit) when our last turns of the season will be, but for those of us who don't plan on making any volcano pilgrimages or trips to Chile, we'll have to store our gear eventually.

An FAA investigation into the incident is underway. A United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its engines burst into flames due to a rare rabbit strike.

Videos shot aboard Flight 3506 Tuesday night shows children crying and adult passengers phoning loved ones as the Airbus A321 hit the ground so hard its landing gear broke, according to ABC News.

the plane reportedly suffered a “mechanical problem” resulting in damage to the landing gear, the New York Post said, citing Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia. One passenger said on Tuesday ...

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating after a Frontier Airlines flight made a hard landing at Luis Marin International Airport in San Juan ...

"The journey was good, the problem was the landing," passenger Melani Wharton wrote on social media Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has previously been ...

A Frontier Airlines passenger recounted how one of the plane’s wheels broke off during a terrifying landing in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Melani Gonzalez Wharton wrote on Facebook that her family ...

Terrified passengers aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Florida feared “it was the end” when one of the plane’s wheels broke off during a hard landing in a frightening moment caught on ...

A recently created RoboBee is now outfitted with its most reliable landing gear to date, inspired by one of nature's most graceful landers: the crane fly. The team has given their flying robot a ...