{"id":396196,"date":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","slug":"video-shows-flames-flying-from-nasa-plane-that-touched-down-without-landing-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/396196\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows flames flying from NASA plane that touched down without landing gear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

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

Local news footage from 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

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’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[148676,233,232,14507,90,416,86,6943,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-396196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-148676","tag-article","tag-general-news","tag-oddities","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-u-s-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}