Posted on 02/27/2012 4:55:06 PM PST by Doogle
NEWARK, N.J. – Traffic in and out of Newark International Airport was halted Monday night after a plane made an emergency landing because of problems with its nose gear, WNBC-TV reported.
The Shuttle America flight from Atlanta to Newark landed at about 6:40pm, after the pilots informed authorities of the technical problem.
Authorities told the station that the nose gear had collapsed and that passengers on board the plane were forced to exit the aircraft via emergency chutes.
The plane, carrying at least 68 passengers and four crew members, made a belly-landing onto a runway that had been coated in flame-retardant foam, myFOXny.com reported.
The plane's occupants were unharmed.
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United Airlines Boeing 737.
You’d think they’d have rigs for this sort of problem at the airport, to jack a crippled craft with landing gear non-deployment back up off the ground and wheel it over to a gate to deplane as normal. Were they afraid it was going to catch fire after it stopped?
...always the possibility
Bad sentence structure
.... four crew members, made a belly-landing onto a runway ..
That gonna leave a mark
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