There have been multiple reports of people discovered stowed away in airplane wheel wells over the past few weeks and others who somehow bypassed boarding pass scans and made it into the passenger ...

An ultralight Cheetah S200 crashed into a Ferris wheel at a festival on the eastern coast of Australia this weekend, leaving the mangled airplane, its two occupants and two children riding the Ferris ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Airport officials say they caught a teenager hiding "in or around" the wheel well of an airplane parked at a Salt Lake City hangar. Authorities say the 16-year-old boy ran from ...

This month, two bodies were found in the wheel well of a JetBlue airplane that departed from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Fort Lauderdale-­Hollywood International ...

WASHINGTON DULLES AIRPORT (WUSA) -- A dead body was found in the landing-gear wheel well of an airplane at Dulles Airport today, officials said. The body of the adult male was discovered by ground ...

Never doubt the importance of the not-so-humble airplane wheel chock. Wheel chocks, pushed up against stationary plane tires, keep planes stationary. The blocks of wood or other material help keep ...

A Boeing aircraft operated by United Airlines lost a landing gear wheel during takeoff in Los Angeles before landing safely in Denver, the latest in a string of mechanical issues this year involving ...