PICTURE: ​Axle fatigue crack led Ryanair 737 to lose nose-wheel

​UK investigators have determined that a fatigue crack in the nose-gear axle of a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 caused one of the wheels to detach on take-off from London Stansted.

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