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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
Fun fact: Crews landing to the north at Tokyo-Narita are required to lower the landing gear by around 12 mile final (the shoreline, approximately) in order to prevent “ice chunks” from falling to the ground from the wheel well (last believed to have occurred some time in the 40’s from a DC-3).
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From my first hand experience this definitely still happens today. I can't say it was from the wheel wells in particular but ice still falls off planes on occasion.
The Calgary Airport picked up the repair bill.