Delta Air Lines Pilot Lands Plane with Nose Gear Up

Delta Flight 1092, which was scheduled to fly from Atlanta Hartsfield to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Wednesday morning, made an emergency landing after the plane’s nose gear did not go down prior to landing.

According to Delta, pilots received a “nose gear unsafe” notification and initiated a missed approach procedure to investigate what was going on. The pilots then flew the plane by the Charlotte-Douglas air traffic control tower to allow the crew there to visually inspect the plane.

After the ATC crew saw that the nose landing gear doors were open but the nose gear remained in the up position, the pilots proceeded to land the plane with the nose gear in the up position.

According to Delta, there were 96 customers and 5 crew members onboard and no injuries were reported. Here is what the landing looked like from a passenger’s point of view, courtesy of WCNC in Charlotte: 

 “Our focus is now to take care of our customers on this flight, including retrieving their bags and seeing them to their final destinations safely,” Delta said in a statement. “We apologize to our customers for what they experienced.” 

Delta has deployed a recovery team and a flight safety team to Charlotte to investigate what happened and says it is fully cooperating with FAA and NTSB investigations.