Croatia flight 464 , landed with nose gear up

27 September 2013

Croatia flight OU-464 , de Havilland DHC-8-400 registration 9A-CQC from Zagreb Croatia to Zurich with 65 people on board it was approaching Zurich airport when the crew tried to extract the landing gears and received a warning that the nose gear is not down.The crew stopped the approach and after worked with checklists it was unable to extract the landing gear so declared an emergency and advised the tower that they are going for a landing without the nose gear.Airport it was in full emergency and airplane landed safely on runway 14 and came to a stop on runway with nose down without nobody to injured.Passengers disembarked via stairs.

On 15 October 2013 the Swiss SUST released their preliminary report about the incident.You can read here

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