article_snippet.sent: Crash investigators have released a photo that reveals the aftermath of a plane’s dramatic landing at East Midlands Airport.
article_snippet.sent: The cargo planes left main landing gear detached due to heat damage to chrome plating, a report said .
article_snippet.sent: The plane’s 38-year-old captain and co-pilot escaped injury, and there were no passengers on board when the left main landing gear detached.
article_snippet.sent: The plane, manufactured in 1990, suffered significant damage to its left wing and engine as its slid along the runway in darkness on the morning of April 29, 2014, according to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report.
article_snippet.sent: The touchdown was ‘unremarkable’ and the autobrake functioned normally, according to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report, but the left main landing gear came off when an inner cylinder, just above the axle, fractured as a result of heat damage to chrome plating.
article_snippet.sent: an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report stated: ‘The aircraft shuddered and rolled slightly left-wing-low as the lower part of the main landing gear detached.’
article_snippet.sent: The landing gear overhaul company carried out a review as a precaution, as The landing gear overhaul company was not clear how or when the chrome plating damage occurred.
highlights_snippet.sent: Left main landing gear detached due to heat damage to chrome plating .
  