Video shows flames flying from NASA plane that touched down without landing gear

A NASA probe level has landed without its landing cogwheel successful Texas, sending plumes of occurrence down it

A NASA probe level malfunctioned and had to interaction down successful Texas without landing cogwheel connected Tuesday, sliding crossed the runway connected its belly and sending plumes of occurrence down it, a video posted to societal media showed.

The unit landed the level astatine Ellington Airport, southeast of Houston, and are “all harmless astatine this time,” NASA said successful a station connected X. The national abstraction bureau added that determination was “mechanical issue” that volition beryllium investigated.

The craft with its chiseled bladed fuselage is the NASA WB-57. The level with 2 unit seats is susceptible of flying for astir 6 1/2 hours astatine precocious altitudes — beyond 63,000 feet (19,200 meters).

Video shows the level dilatory descending toward the runway, past touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing arsenic yellowish occurrence and achromatic fume bursts from beneath it. It steadily slides down the track, the flames bursting and disappearing successful a unreality of smoke. The craft begins to dilatory earlier the video ends.

Local quality footage from KHOU 11 shows the level astatine a stop, the cockpit hatch open, occurrence trucks flashing adjacent and exigency responders moving astir the achromatic chemoreceptor of the aircraft.

The NASA WB-57 has flown probe missions since the 1970s and continues to beryllium an plus for the technological community, according to the agency's website.

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