What caused NJ airplane’s landing gear to fail? (AP)

January 11, 2010 5:28 am | us

A United Airlines Airbus 319 sits on the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport after making an emergency landing in Newark, N.J., Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010.  Landing gear problems force the flight to make an emergency landing. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, said all 53 people aboard Flight 634 from Chicago were safely evacuated, and no injuries were reported.  (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP – Investigators were trying to determine why part of a United Airlines jetliner’s landing gear failed to deploy, forcing terrified passengers to crouch in their seats and brace for a crash before the pilot touched down safely despite scraping the jet’s belly on the runway.


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