PRONE TO FAILURE
LANDING GEAR CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST FAILURE-PRONE SYSTEM in commercial jet transports. A recent McDonnell Douglas study covering operations of Western-built transports between 1958 and 1993 shows there were 456 landing gear-related accidents, more than twice as many as in the next most failure...
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