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While nose wheel shimmy doesn't necessarily mean you're in immediate danger, it's also not safe to fly on a plane with nose wheel issues that haven't been addressed.
Officials said it happened on Delta Air Lines Flight 982 around 11:15 a.m. on Jan. 20. It was headed to El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Columbia.
The Delta Boeing 757 was cleared for takeoff and was taxiing on the runway when one of the nose wheels came loose and rolled off the runway behind the aircraft and down an embankment, according to ...
Mechanical failure of a Boeing 717's nose gear assembly prevented its deployment, leading to it landing on its nose last month in Charlotte, NTSB said.
The aircraft had been operating a service from Ilorin, in western Nigeria, to the capital Abuja on 24 July – one week after the nose-gear assembly was installed.
A Boeing whistleblower has claimed that plane parts made by the company's largest supplier regularly left the factory with defects. ... Nose Wheel of Boeing Jet Falls Off Just Before Takeoff in ...
UK investigators believe bearing overheat led to a nose-wheel being shed from an ATR 72-500 on departure from Edinburgh in October 2023, but the reason behind the failure could not be determined.
Investigators say a broken part inside the nose landing gear of a Delta plane forced pilots to make a skidding, nose-down landing last month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Officials said it happened on Delta Air Lines Flight 982 around 11:15 a.m. on Jan. 20. It was headed to El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Columbia.
In January 2022, a man was found alive in the nose wheel of a cargo plane arriving from South Africa to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, and a man managed to ride in the landing gear compartment of ...