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Southwest Nose Gear Collapse LGA

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Here's a video from inside the cabin. An amusing announcement from one of the FAs when some pax stand up - "Ladies and gentleman, we're not there yet. Please sit down". :D

Seconds after the jet stops somebody starts yelling - "should we open the doors ?". You can almost feel those passengers straining at the leash to jump out the exits. Are SWA cockpit crews trained to make an immediate announcement regarding remaining seated after an abort, or any situation that may precede an evacuation ? I'm curious and not being critical. I'm always concerned that some muppet is going to jump out into a spinning engine.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-m8A9aKTDRI&desktop_uri=/watch?v=-m8A9aKTDRI
 
This could have been tragic, and it sounds like the crew did a good job when there was no warning. Hey, this is what we get paid for...The unexpected.
This could be any one of us that posts here. Thank God nobody was hurt seriously.
 
She really made the "We aren't there yet" comment fully sounding like she had no clue anything had happened! Seriously? It was as thought she thought they were just getting up too soon and not that they had just skidded off the runway!
 
Any one consider that they finally made gear speed to late to get the gear down and locked before touchdown?
 
I know I don't have all te facts but, they reported a "possible nose gear problem" and still landed on a 7000 ft runway surrounded by water!

Why would they need a longer runway? Maybe I'm way off base but I would think a nose gear collapsing would likely decrease your stopping distance, not lead to an overrun.
 
Any one consider that they finally made gear speed to late to get the gear down and locked before touchdown?

I think you logged into a pilot's forum by mistake.
 
Why would they need a longer runway? Maybe I'm way off base but I would think a nose gear collapsing would likely decrease your stopping distance, not lead to an overrun.

I'm not sure about the 73, but in the airplane I operate, when landing with the nose gear in an unsafe condition, you trim to keep the nose wheel off until slowed at touchdown and then slowly lower the nose wheel while the elevator still has effectiveness after touchdown. To comply with the checklist, I'd prefer the longest runway. This is assuming of course you knew about it in advance.
 
This could have been tragic, and it sounds like the crew did a good job when there was no warning. Hey, this is what we get paid for...The unexpected.
This could be any one of us that posts here. Thank God nobody was hurt seriously.

Unless the PF caused this accident by a 3 point landing and broke the nose gear off?
 

The nose landing gear of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 collapsed up and into the forward fuselage during a 22 July accident on landing at LaGuardia Airport, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
The agency's first statement from the scene of the crash of Flight 345 also notes that the collapsed gear damaged the electrical equipment bay located beneath the flight deck.


http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/LASJayhawk/media/SW737_zps855914d8.jpg.html
 
Inside Cabin (Pax) Video looks like pretty high rate of descent that wasn't quite arrested before touchdown? Full Summertime Load, Hot/High Density Altitude at Sea Level looks pretty humid at time of incident? Guessing there will be pretty good indications of similar vertical stresses in Main Wheel Wells, too? I hate it for the crew. Could be any of us; getting just behind the power curve at just the wrong time?

100-1/2
 

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