Landing weight limits are less than takeoff limits because of the extreme stress it puts on the landing gear. This is why planes that have an issue right after

Landing weight limits are less than takeoff limits because of the extreme stress it puts on the landing gear. This is why planes that have an issue right after takeoff often need to dump tens of thousands of gallons of fuel before they can land. >Aircraft have two main types of weight limits: the maximum takeoff weight is composed of dry operating weight (DOW) plus payload (passengers and cargo), collectively the zero fuel weight (ZFW), plus the trip fuel, contingency, alternate, final reserve and the block fuel (taxi fuel), and the maximum structural landing weight, with the maximum structural landing weight almost always being the lower of the two. This allows an aircraft on a normal, routine flight to take off at a higher weight, consume fuel en route, and arrive at a lower weight. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping