US Airways flight forced to land in Houston without its nose gear

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2946952/One-hospitalized-Airways-plane-forced-make-emergency-landing-nose-gear-malfunction-cabin-filled-smoke.html
 

• A US Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing without its nose gear at Bush Intercontinental Airport on Monday
• The pilot made the emergency landing after noticing the landing gear was not coming down, the cabin then began to fill with smoke
• Passengers had to deplane using chutes and one was sent to a local hospital with unknown injuries 

 

 

 

[LD3]

Congrats to the crew for getting everyone out.....

 

[robbedagain]

congrats and glad all are out safe.     would this be something similar to the DASH-8-300 that landed in PHL without the nose gear a few yrs ago where the nose gear failed to drop down?