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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - A JetBlue airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways, unable to be retracted into the plane.
The pilot landed on the back wheels, then eased onto the awry front tires, which shot flames along the runway before they tore off. The metal landing gear scraped for the final yards as the plane came to a stop.
Within minutes of landing, the plane's door opened and the 140 passengers walked down a stairway with their luggage and onto the tarmac, where buses waited.
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