Gear-Up Landing in Emergency Landing: Badge Guide

Gear-Up Landing is the belly-landing badge: 987,718 awards and 700 a day, one of the busiest landing-related emergencies in the game. The description is two words long — “Experience a belly landing!” — and it is the badge most players meet before any structural failure.

Gear-Up Landing badge data

What is gear-up landing in aviation?

A gear-up landing, or belly landing, happens when an aircraft touches down with its undercarriage retracted or only partly extended. The crew burns off fuel to reduce landing weight, warns the tower, and lands on a foam-covered runway where available. Propellers and engine nacelles usually take the damage, sparks can start a fire, and the runway is closed for hours — but the passengers almost always walk away.

How does it appear in Emergency Landing?

Gear-Up Landing is only one of five undercarriage badges. Gear Collapse covers a structural failure of the gear, Tire Burst covers a blown tyre, Landing Gear Failure is the generic undercarriage fault, and Tailstrike covers the tail hitting the runway on rotation. The game treats the gear set as its own cluster, separate from the structural failures that produce things like Wing Airframe Collapse.

Because a gear fault can be survived without touching the runway, the outcome badges matter here: Successful Landing and Successful Rejected Takeoff both record that the crew kept the aircraft intact.

Related emergency badges

Runway Excursion and Runway Overrun are the two ways a landing can go wrong after touchdown, and both have far fewer awards than Gear-Up Landing. If you are trying to complete this cluster, a rejected takeoff is the cheapest route: Failed Rejected Take-off and Successful Rejected Takeoff both trigger before the aircraft is airborne.

Where to read next

• All 93 emergency badges for the full list with award counts.
• All 238 badges for the complete badge set.
• Milestone badges for the survival and death ladders these events feed.