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WASHINGTON – The landing gear on a FedEx cargo flight collapsed during a landing in Florida in 2016 because of corrosion that led to the metal cracking, federal investigators said Thursday.
Corrosion-induced fatigue cracking caused the left main landing gear of a FedEx Boeing MD-10-10 Freighter to collapse at Fort Lauderdale in 2016, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Danish authorities are focusing on the possibility that corrosion contributed to the recent landing gear failure of a turboprop plane built by Bombardier Inc., one of two such incidents over the ...
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has found a charter flight crashed after landing in Portland, in south-west Victoria, because of cracks in the aircraft's control column.
Certain Airbus A340-500 and -600 operators are set to be ordered to replace centre landing-gear axles on the type after concerns that a batch underwent improper maintenance treatment.