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nose wheel

noun

  1. a wheel fitted to the forward end of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The disruption included a plane suffering an emergency incident at Belfast City Airport on Sunday evening, when its nose wheel appeared to break during landing in stormy conditions.

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Pictures from the scene suggest the plane's nose wheel collapsed during landing but no injuries were reported among the onboard crew.

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Pictures appear to show the aircraft with a collapsed nose wheel sitting on the runway.

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The captain managed to use the nose wheel tiller to keep the plane near the runway centerline until the pedals unstuck.

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After landing, when taxiing the plane at a low speed, the pilot makes sharper turns off the runway or into a gate not with the rudder but by turning the nose wheel of the aircraft using a steering tiller on a side console.

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