A rear stairwell or slide could be seen extending from the Southwest flight, said Strauss, who owns

A southwest airlines plane rests on the tarmac after what officials say was a nose gear collapse during a landing at LaGuardia disney hotel resort florida Airport, Monday, July 22, 2013, in New York. The Federal Aviation Administration says the plane landed safely. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ten passengers were treated disney hotel resort florida at the scene, and six were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, said Thomas Bosco, acting disney hotel resort florida director of aviation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the area airports. The six crew members were taken to another hospital for observation.
He said the collapse closed the airport for more than an hour. Both of the airport's disney hotel resort florida runways were back in use by Tuesday morning, a Port Authority spokesman said, and the plane was being moved to a hangar.
A rear stairwell or slide could be seen extending from the Southwest flight, disney hotel resort florida said Strauss, who owns a Washington public relations firm. His plane, which was about 100 yards from the Southwest flight, wasn't disney hotel resort florida allowed to taxi back to the gate, he said.
The Port Authority said the passengers exited disney hotel resort florida the plane by using chutes. Hanna said she was among the first to get off the plane, and could smell something burning when she got down to the tarmac. The passengers were put on a bus and taken to the terminal.
The landing gear collapse came 16 days after Asiana Flight 214 crash-landed at San Francisco's disney hotel resort florida airport, killing two Chinese teenagers; a third was killed when a fire truck ran over her while responding to the crash, authorities said. Dozens of people were injured in that landing, which involved a Boeing 777 flying from South Korea.
Longtime pilot Patrick Smith, author disney hotel resort florida of "Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel. Questions, Answers, disney hotel resort florida and Reflections" and AskthePilot.com , said landing gear issues are not high on the list of worries disney hotel resort florida for pilots.