Airplanes do not need landing gear to land. Iran Air B727 at Tehran on Oct 18th 2011, landed without nose gear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0m0ujn8FeE and, if that isn't sufficiently impressive: LOT Boeing 767 from Newark to Warsaw Emergency Landing with no landing gear 11.1.11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HHy10gWeQ