I was concerned, obviously, about the people on the plane. And then when I saw the debris rolling of

The front landing gear on a Boeing 737 collapsed as the plane touched down at LaGuardia cheap airplane tickets to houston tx Airport Monday, causing the aircraft to skid and spark along the runway, according to witnesses, injuring as many as 10 people.
Passengers on the Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville, Tenn. evacuated the plane on emergency chutes just after the landing. The plane came to a stop in a grassy area on runway 4 after the nose gear collapsed, officials said.
Ten people, including passengers and flight attendants, were treated by medical personnel cheap airplane tickets to houston tx at the scene for anxiety attacks and some minor bumps and bruises, according to Thomas Bosco, general manager at LaGuardia Airport. Four refused further medical attention, and six were transported to a hospital.
It sort of came down really fast, and kind of steep. And then it sort of banged, and then it banged again and then it sort of skidded to a stop, he said. It all stopped quicker than you would have thought.
Roland did not know at the time that the nose of the plane had caught fire or that the landing gear was broken, cheap airplane tickets to houston tx but witnesses on the ground saw what they described as a fireball skidding down the runway.
The plane was just screeching down the runway, fire on both sides, said Steve Czech, who was waiting for his American Airlines flight cheap airplane tickets to houston tx to take off when he saw the Southwest flight touch down. There was debris kind of rolling off to the sides.
I was concerned, obviously, about the people on the plane. And then when I saw the debris rolling off, I was wondering cheap airplane tickets to houston tx if we were going to be in the debris field and get hit by some of the debris, he said.
Sam Brock, an NBC Bay Area reporter, was on another plane next to the Southwest aircraft on the runway when it landed. The Asiana crash in San Francisco earlier this month made passengers jittery, he said.
I think a lot of people had nerves that were rattled. As soon as it was clear that there was something going on, everybody on one side of the plane rushed to the other to take a look, obviously hoping we weren't cheap airplane tickets to houston tx seeing some sort of repeat of what happened at SFO, he said.
The Port Authority Police Department's aircraft rescue team and emergency medical responders were on the scene, but at no point in the process did it seem like there were any serious injuries or any immediacy with respect to the emergency response, Brock observed.