Belly-landings are risky and carried out only in an emergency. Here are the situations in which this is done, and what probably happened with the Jeju aircraft.
PANAMA CITY — A plane at Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport had to make an emergency landing after a reported landing-gear malfunction on Jan. 2. The vintage Navion aircraft ...
The aircraft, flying from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, informed the control tower at Istanbul Airport that its landing gear had failed to open, and landed with guidance from the tower ...
Late Monday night, JetBlue Flight 1801 landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where gate technicians discovered the bodies of two men in the aircraft's landing gear compartment.