Two partial gear-up landings by Bombardier regional jets in three days in late September prompted the NTSB to investigate a possible connection between the incidents and other CRJ landing-gear failures over the past two years.
The most recent incident happened on September 28, when a SkyWest CRJ200, operating in partnership with AirTran as Flight 3074 from Omaha, Neb., made an emergency landing at Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport at about 5:10 p.m. local time with only its right main and nose gear extended. All 36 passengers and three crewmembers deplaned safely through the main cabin door.
That incident might have proved fairly unremarkable if not for the fact that just three days earlier, on September 25, an emergency landing at New York’s JFK International Airport by an Atlantic Southeast Airlines Bombardier CRJ900 had already raised concerns from authorities about the frequency of landing-gear failures on the Canadian manufacturer’s ubiquitous regional jet line.
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