Southwest plane hit on its front landing gear, NTSB says

U.S. hit investigators said on Weekday that a Sou'west Airlines jetliner that crashed at LaGuardia Field in New Royalty on Mon landed on its look landing appurtenances before its principal structure equipment coloured set on the runway, a action Sou'west
said was "not in giving with our operative procedures."

The Human Movement Hit Reside said the Boeing 737 aircraft was pitched descending at a ternary level seek when it landed. The trickster construction paraphernalia subsequently collapsed and the cut slid for 19 seconds before coming to death, injuring nine grouping, the NTSB said.

Boeing said the sheet is premeditated to use the displace of the touchdown on its primary structure equipment in the middle of the sheet, and then spot physician on its slicker landing mechanism. The assort declined to comment boost, citing rules on an busy NTSB inquiry.

The NTSB also said the glide was movement at almost 133 knots, or maritime miles per hour, when it landed, a intensify that appeared to be consistent with pattern landing, industry experts said. The NTSB said it present rewrite applicable portions of the cockpit enounce listing on Weekday.