LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A JetBlue airliner with defective landing gear landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday, after a tense three hours in the air.
Flight 292 -- bound for New York from Burbank, Calif. -- was diverted to LAX shortly after takeoff from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, when the crew noticed the nose gear did not retract properly.
The plane, carrying 140 passengers and a crew of six, spent a little more than three hours in the air over Los Angeles while emergency crews on the ground prepared a runway at LAX for an emergency landing. Just after 6:20 p.m. PDT, the pilot landed the plane successfully.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the incident, to try to determine why the landing gear malfunctioned.
