Landing Gear Comes Off Southwest Jet At LaGuardia Airport

[Soulfly]

Flight #345 out of Nashville.
http://www.businessinsider.com/landing-gear-comes-off-southwest-jet-at-laguardia-airport-2013-7

 

[Mick West]

The planes took a bit of an indirect route, including one of those loops that the chemtrail crowd say planes never do. Most likely it was just to space the arrival time, but I wonder if they were in a bit of a hurry to get on the ground. Still, you can bang those things down pretty hard.

 

[Soulfly]

Maybe they circled when they discovered the problem, to stay close to the nearest airport?
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/laguardia-southwest-airlines-plane-landing-gear-216501331.html

"Southwest Airlines Flight 345, a Boeing 737 arriving at LaGuardia from Nashville reported possible front landing gear issues before landing," the FAA said in a statement. "The plane's nosegear collapsed as the aircraft landed on Runway 4 at 5:45 p.m."

 

[Mick West]

Should have got this guy to help:

 

[Met Watch]

The planes took a bit of an indirect route, including one of those loops that the chemtrail crowd say planes never do. Most likely it was just to space the arrival time, but I wonder if they were in a bit of a hurry to get on the ground. Still, you can bang those things down pretty hard.

Looks like a holding pattern, but why over Virginia? Where they keeping an eye on the weather, or what?

 

[Mick West]

Looks like a holding pattern, but why over Virginia? Where they keeping an eye on the weather, or what?

I imagine it's simply an arrival scheduling thing. They (ATC) probably have to line up the planes along the inbound route.

 

[Mick West]

Maybe they circled when they discovered the problem, to stay close to the nearest airport?
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/laguardia-southwest-airlines-plane-landing-gear-216501331.html

"Southwest Airlines Flight 345, a Boeing 737 arriving at LaGuardia from Nashville reported possible front landing gear issues before landing," the FAA said in a statement. ...

Retracted:

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/22/us/southwest-laguardia/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Initially, the Federal Aviation Administration said the crew reported a possible nose gear problem before landing, but later amended that to say that after it reviewed air controller tapes, no issues were noted ahead of time.