How to Use landing gear in a Sentence

landing gear

noun
  • In fact, there wasn't any landing gear.
    — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There are four wheels on each of the plane’s two main landing gears.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 8 July 2024
  • This was after the plane’s landing gear touched down.
    — Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Who are those Afghans who were on the landing gear of the plane and fell?
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • When the wheels retract, some stowaways are crushed by the landing gear.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The three feet of Philae’s landing gear can be seen in some of the frames.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2014
  • Parts from the plane, including landing gear, were strewn across the street.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • When the plane hit the ground, the landing gear on the right side of the aircraft collapsed.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • One of the aircraft’s landing gear legs—the rear one on the left—decides to stay down.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 24 June 2020
  • The chief of these is the plane’s landing gear, which can be raised or lowered with a twist of the tail cone.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The video shows the nose landing gear bay doors were open, but the gear didn’t come down as expected.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Some commercial airlines come in low and slow with landing gear down.
    — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 May 2020
  • The plane's right main landing gear collapsed on contact with the runway.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The landing gear and flaps were both found retracted, the report said.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The retractable landing gear also reduces drag for a faster, smoother flight.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This group of six circled twice as Solsrud called and then dropped in, landing gear down.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
  • There's even retractable landing gear and the cockpit opens to reveal five seats for the flight crew.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 13 Dec. 2022
  • His Citabria monoplane had grazed the ground, smashing the craft’s landing gear.
    — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The plane was not airborne, and all its landing gear was on the ground when the incident took place.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Delta plane lands without nose gear What goes up must come down – even without nose landing gear!
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Nestled between the legs of its landing gear was a red balloon filled with water.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Dec. 2025
  • The plane's landing gear passes just above the cab, followed by the sounds of the light pole hitting the truck.
    — Russell Lewis, NPR, 4 June 2026
  • Such attempts to hide in landing gear compartments have proven deadly in the past.
    — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The airplane’s main landing gear support failed, and the body of the jet went sliding down the runway.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The wing and landing gear were found nearly two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The wing and landing gear were found just under two miles from the main crash site, suggesting that the plane broke up in the air.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The manual landing gear controls are hidden in a hatch on the floor of the cockpit.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Because pilots might be tempted to fly it all the way down, the designers added a small landing gear.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • Follow-up inspections showed damage to the left main landing gear bay and lower wing area.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • As it was towed, the middle of the plane was supported by its own landing gear, which appeared to be intact.
    — ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026

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