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  1165 S. Riverside Drive
   Iowa City, Iowa  52246
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Nose Gear Incident

These are pictures taken of the aftermath of two very similar Jet Blue landing incidents that took place in 2005.  Neither aircraft, Airbus 320s, could get the nose-gear to retract upon departure. 

They then discovered, to their dismay, that they couldn't get the gear to come down properly, either -- the gear would not rotate 90 degrees for proper alignment with the runway.  

Here are several photos from these incidents.  Incredibly the gear did not collapse.

 

A VERY high res shot of the nose gear...

Check out that wheel!

Another view...

Remarkable...

Another view...

The disassembled nose gear...

The strut?