The BAC 1-11, another airliner close to the ground, has doors for its main landing gear, as an example. But both the ground clearance and the lack of doors have a common reason. That is ...

A rusted 1.5 metre-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a mosque site and a luxury high ...

11 attacks came from a wing, not landing gear, police said Monday. The 1.5-metre piece is a trailing edge flap support structure, police said. It is located closer to the body of the plane and ...

NEW YORK -- A piece of a landing gear believed to be from one of the commercial jetliners that crashed into the World Trade Center towers during the Sept. 11 ... is about 2 1/2 blocks from ...

Specifically, they will fly N999BW, a BAC 1-11-400 that was built in 1967 and operated by Business Jet Access as an executive jet (hence, the very retro-1970s or Howard Hughes style interior).

Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to ...