A NASA research plane slid to a stop on its belly at Ellington Airport in Houston on Tuesday after its landing gear failed to deploy, sending flames across the runway, as two crew members braced inside the cockpit.

The Pentagon did not immediately confirm the cause of the landing, and said the incident was still under investigation.

It was not an ordinary Monday morning for commuters traveling on Highway 85 in Cupertino, nor for the students at a nearby college or the passersby who noticed a small, gray single-engine plane descending from the air and safely landing on the freeway.

A Los Angeles-bound flight made an emergency landing after a pilot thought there was a break-in attempt in the cockpit The miscommunication was due to an “inter-phone system” failure as a flight attendant tried to contact the pilot “We apologize for ...

A pilot made an emergency landing in a field in Linn County, Kansas, on Thursday after the fuel line of his 1968 Cessna 177A froze.A Kansas Highway Patrol report says the 42-year-old pilot from Indianapolis was flying over the area when the incident ...