{"id":334261,"date":"2026-01-27T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/video-shows-flames-flying-from-nasa-plane-that-touched-down-without-landing-gear"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:46:05","slug":"video-shows-flames-flying-from-nasa-plane-that-touched-down-without-landing-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/video-shows-flames-flying-from-nasa-plane-that-touched-down-without-landing-gear","title":{"rendered":"Video exhibits flames flying from NASA aircraft that touched down with out touchdown gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on its belly and sending plumes of flame behind it, a video posted to social media showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crew landed the plane at Ellington Airport, southeast of Houston, and are \u201call safe at this time,\u201d NASA said in a post on X. The federal space agency added that there was \u201cmechanical issue\u201d that will be investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The aircraft with its distinct thin fuselage is the NASA WB-57. The plane with two crew seats is capable of flying for about 6 1\/2 hours at high altitudes \u2014 beyond 63,000 feet (19,200 meters).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video shows the plane slowly descending toward the runway, then touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it. It steadily slides down the track, the flames bursting and disappearing in a cloud of smoke. The aircraft begins to slow before the video ends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Local news footage from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/ellington-field-nasa-plane-belly-landing-houston-texas\/285-0a56be62-e0cd-4489-a418-130e2cc90a4e\">KHOU 11<\/a> shows the plane at a stop, the cockpit hatch open, fire trucks flashing nearby and emergency responders working around the black nose of the aircraft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The NASA WB-57 has flown research missions since the 1970s and continues to be an asset for the scientific community, according to the agency&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/video-shows-flames-flying-nasa-plane-touched-landing-129615995\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on its belly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12413,12412,92,12409,12410,2092,8278,156,102,12411],"class_list":["post-334261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aeroflot-flight","tag-air-micronesia-flight-614","tag-disaster-accident","tag-ellington-airport","tag-federal-house","tag-houston","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-social-media","tag-texas","tag-touched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334263,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334261\/revisions\/334263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}