Southwest B737 Crash at La Guardia Airport.

[Jayden Laing]

Southwest Airlines ‪#‎flight345 landed at New York's LaGuardia at 5:40 PM Eastern Monday evening from Nashville. The aircraft is a Boeing 737-700. Eyewitness reports indicate the aircraft's nosegear collapsed upon landing. There were 150 people on board including Customers and Crew. All Customers have been deplaned and transferred to the terminal. Initial reports indicate local responders are caring for five Customers and three flight attendants who have reported injuries at this time. Southwest is cooperating with local authorities, and the NTSB has been notified.

More here: http://mobile.news.com.au/travel/news/southwest-flight-345-crash-lands-at-la-guardia-airport/story-fnizu68q-1226683552273

Anyone know a rego?

[Rowan McKeever]

N753SW as per avherald (http://www.avherald.com/h?article=465c1158&opt=0).

cn 400 / msn 29848, delivered 21 Oct 1999

[Jacob L]

I wonder if the aircraft just came out of maintenance and something failed,

My guess is a bolt wasn't installed properly if the aircraft had maintenance a couple of days before the crash??????

[Zac M]

Assuming things is never good as it can make you look real stupid down the track, we can speculate all we want, could have been the result of fatigue, previous hard landing, design flaw....but at the end of the day we don't know, wait until the investigators have done their job!

[David Heath]

Remember that nose wheel that fell of -VBA in 2009 at MEL? Luckily it was only pushed back or taxiing when it happened, if I recall correctly.

[Philip Argy]

Here's some post-event video with an eyewitness report:
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/videos/laguardia-plane-crash/

[David Ramsay]

NTSB Says Southwest 737's Nose Gear Hit First

From Airwise.com (http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1374799189.html)

US NTSB safety investigators said the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed at LaGuardia airport on Monday landed on its front landing gear before its main gear touched down.

The National Transportation Safety board said the 737 plane pitched downward at a 3 degree angle when it landed.

The front landing gear subsequently collapsed and the plane slid for 19 seconds before coming to rest, injuring nine people, the NTSB said.

(Reuters)

[Philip Argy]

So in the space of a couple of weeks we've had one tail first crash landing and now a nose first crash landing. How could you end up with 3 degrees of pitch down on landing if you had even badly executed a flare?

I'll bet the CVR transcript has some choice language! :)

[Craig Lindsay]

a video of the crash from the inside of the 737.
It pretty much went pear shaped as soon as it touched down
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/travel-news/terrifying-crash-landing-of-southwest-airlines-plane-filmed-from-the-inside/story-fni0bien-1226687339501

[Thomas Collins]

NTSB update (http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130725b.html).

[Robert S]

There's a longer version of that video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVAj2Mnngk

And an entirely different video from a GoPro here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYmMG61VDk


You really have to wonder about what you are hearing in the video... the cabin crew don't sound authoritative, to say the least.

Latest NTSB update:

http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/Southwest345/southwest345.html
http://www.ntsb.gov/news/2013/130806.html

Includes the comments that "On approach into LGA, the first officer was the pilot flying and the captain was the pilot monitoring. SWA 345 was cleared for the ILS Runway 4 approach. ... SWA 345 proceeded on the approach when at a point below 400 feet, there was an exchange of control of the airplane and the captain became the flying pilot and made the landing."