Safe landing after jumbo jet air drama

A Virgin Atlantic jumbo jet has made a dramatic, but safe, landing at Gatwick airport after developing a landing-gear fault.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Dec 2014, 15:47 BST
Screen grab image taken from the Twitter feed of @atcfrase of a Virgin Atlantic passenger plane which is trying to land back at Gatwick airport.Screen grab image taken from the Twitter feed of @atcfrase of a Virgin Atlantic passenger plane which is trying to land back at Gatwick airport.
Screen grab image taken from the Twitter feed of @atcfrase of a Virgin Atlantic passenger plane which is trying to land back at Gatwick airport.

Flight VS43, bound for Las Vegas, touched back down at the West Sussex airport.

The Boeing 747 jumbo jet returned to Gatwick after developing problems with its landing gear.

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