BREAKING -- AM WEST PLANE W/O FRONT LANDING GEAR

[DandG13]

Now on local news -- America West w/passengers on board is sitting on runway -- Airbus 320 -- nose on runway, looks at though front landing gear just collapsed. Emergency crews have arrived. Sky Harbor Airport. 150 passengers on board arriving from Houston.

Nice job pilot.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wow, hope everybody is OK!!

[HairOfTheDog]

Yes - You gotta hate it when that happens! - Nice job pilot indeed!

[TADSLOS]

This flight crew was sober, no doubt.

[luckodeirish]

Maybe Ahmed Aknad Mohammed was working on that aircraft.

[DCBryan1]

Is there an unexploded stinger missile sticking out of the fuselage?

[Ramius]

Whew. Somebody I know was on an AmWest flight from Houston to Sky Harbor yesterday. Likely the same flight #.

Yikes.

It really creeps me out when a crash happens on a flight number that I've been on before. That Alaska flight from Cabo to SFO that lawn-darted into the ocean was one. Took that same flight from Cabo once.

[Walkingfeather]

WOW looks like those 2002 Saudi mechanics have been busy already.

[Walkingfeather]

Sorry Should read 202

[meyer]

This flight crew was sober, no doubt.

If they weren't before hand, they definately were afterwards. There's 2 things that will make you instantly sober (within reason): First is seeing blue and red flashing lights in your rear view mirror, and second is losing your front landing gear.

[Tony in Hawaii]

I'm waiting for them to blame a fat passenger.

[El Gato]

Is there an unexploded stinger missile sticking out of the fuselage?

Or scorch marks near the nose gear door, where a near miss did explode? Ah heck, airplanes break all the time, usually in minor ways, sometimes in more serious, but still not catastrophic, ways and sometimes the stuff really hits the fan.

[HairOfTheDog]

Live it up Ramius!... you're on borrowed time!

[hole_n_one]

First is seeing blue and red flashing lights in your rear view mirror.....

I hate when that happens!

[Mixer]

Interesting indeed.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/740849/posts

Think there is any relation or can I put my tin foil hat away and take a shower?

[Petronski]

It really creeps me out when a crash happens on a flight number that I've been on before.

Well, I've never had that happen, but a couple years ago I missed a USAirways flight out of Paris, and they got me a ticket for a flight the next day for only a $75 charge, which they waived because I looked so pathetic.

Today I hear on the radio that from now on, USAirways passengers who miss their flights get NO cash value, no help, and are SOL, as they say. A second full fare would have made that hellish day positively painful.

[Eva]

Jeez, I was going to book that flight for my daughter. She decided not to go.

[OldFriend]

The plane did NOT crash......easy does it now.

[July 4th]

It really creeps me out when a crash happens on a flight number that I've been on before.

I was on the TWA 800 airframe two weeks before it "blew up." I'm a travel nerd, so I always jot down or take a picture of the aircraft callsigns. Same one. Freaky. (especially if you believe the fuel tank theory.)

[hole_n_one]