But the drone also had backup sensors: two metal prongs that protruded from the bottom of the machine. Called squat switches and commonly used in landing gear, they push in and provide physical ...

In April 2023, an American Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration N143AN, sustained multiple bird strikes after taking off ...

On August 20, 2023, the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 was landing at John Wayne-Orange County Airport in when the gear ...

The National Transportation Safety Board revealed Tuesday that 'excessive grinding' during maintenance work is what caused an ...

The latest improvement: RoboBee has learned how to stick the landing, thanks to biomechanical improvements to its landing gear modeled on ... with built-in sensors. “The longer-term goal is ...

“We want to implement some sensors, perhaps vision or haptic sensors. This way, we’re going to know where the landing site is, how many meters away from it we are, and so on,” Shin say ...

Pearson International Airport last month. The right main landing gear collapsed after making contact with the runway, setting off the chain of events. While all passengers and crew members ...

The Delta Air Lines plane that landed upside down in Toronto in February suffered a landing gear collapse as it made contact with the runway, according to a new report. Investigators released a ...

The report lays out how Learjet 35A owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil crashed into another aircraft after its landing gear appeared to fail, causing it to veer off the runway, killing a ...