Southwest Airlines‘ (Dallas) Boeing 737-700 involved in the crash landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on July 22 landed with the nose wheel striking the runway first (the aircraft did not flare fro landing) according to the NTSB. The NTSB issued this statement:
The National Transportation Safety Board released factual information from the July 22 accident involving a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. The airplane’s front landing gear collapsed on landing.
- Evidence from video and other sources is consistent with the nose-gear making contact with the runway before the main landing gear.
- The flight data recorder on the airplane recorded 1,000 parameters and contained approximately 27 hours of recorded data, including the entire flight from Nashville to New York.
- The cockpit voice recorder contains a two-hour recording of excellent quality that captures the entire flight from Nashville to New York and the accident landing sequence.
- Flaps were set from 30 to 40 degrees about 56 seconds prior to touchdown.
- Altitude was about 32 feet, airspeed was about 134 knots, and pitch attitude was about 2 degrees nose-up approximately 4 seconds prior touchdown.
- At touchdown, the airspeed was approximately 133 knots and the aircraft was pitched down approximately 3 degrees.
- After touchdown, the aircraft came to a stop within approximately 19 seconds.
- A cockpit voice recorder group will convene at NTSB laboratories in Washington to transcribe the relevant portion of the accident flight.
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