nbc 10's jessie gary is live at the airport. why are the passengers now. their hotel beds after a long, almost three-hour flight to nowhere in particular. we've raeched out to lufthansa officials to see if they have an exact cause as to why the landing gear got stuck. the flight took off at 5:45 yesterday afternoon. the malfunction was detected not long after becoming airborne. the pilot tried to raise the gear but there was no success. they made announcements in english and german that there was a problem and they'd burn as much fuel as possible before returning to philadelphia international airport. the vapor stream was the fuel burn in progress. the passengers are here at the baggage carousals getting their baggage. the airline put up those passengers in nearby hotels to try to get them back on their way tomorrow or tuesday. coming up in the next 30 minutes you'll hear from some of the passengers, what exactly was going on inside the cockpit once they heard there's a problem. we'll have that for you in 30 minutes. live at philadelphia international airp

nbc 10's jessie gary is live at the art. >> lufthansa confirms the jet was dumping fuel, not just burning fuel. they were burning and dumping fuel to come back to the airport and land. all of this for passengers sitting on board, they say they were confused as to what was going on. let's take a look at the video. lufthansa flight lh-427 took off around 5:45, bound for frankfurt, germany. a malfunction was detected with theç landing gear. it would not retract back gnat plane. the passengers tell nbc 10, the pilots tried to raise the gear but with no success, so they burned and dumped fuel, we just confirmed. the dumping as the plane is flying, coming out of both of the wings. that's burning and dumping in progress. anxious moments. 5,000 feet above chester county. >> we kept on circling around philadelphia until we finally landed. >> were you nervous at all? >> i'll be honest, i started to cry a little. i was really nervous and i was praying because i was nervous. >> reporter: once on the ground about three hours later, passengers tried to collect their baggage. insult to injury, the bagg