A Qantas flight was forced to make an emergency landing after it lost the use of its brakes. QF1908 from Canberra to Brisbane was due to depart at 5:25 pm but it was delayed. Shortly after taking off, ...

Many pilots misuse light aircraft brakes (e.g., "riding" them during taxi, applying them too early/hard on landing), leading to overheating, rapid wear, flat-spotting tires, and serious safety risks ...

Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa are safe after one of the plane’s brakes overheated and briefly caught fire upon landing in Atlanta on Sunday, airport officials said. The brakes ...

A key factor in Riyadh Air’s selection was the weight advantage of Safran Landing Systems’ solutions. This is a significant lever for optimising aircraft performance in the high-altitude conditions of ...

Boeing is to incorporate a redesign to the landing gear on later production 787-8s to speed gate turnaround operations by improving the thermal performance of part of the braking system. As Boeing ...

Safran Landing Systems Kentucky has unveiled an expansion of its Boone County facility for carbon composite brakes for large commercial and military aircraft. “The economic momentum Kentucky is seeing ...

A faulty fan unit likely contributed to a brake fire and a “huge screen of smoke” that trailed a Frontier Airlines-operated Airbus A321 upon landing in Las Vegas earlier this month. That is according ...