Posted on a bulletin board by an American Airlines pilot: "Here is what I saw. We were on taxiway B short of CY abeam the AA hanger. We were around 2000 ft from the runway end and had a complete view of the first 2000 ft of the runway. WN seemed high crossing the threshold and was around 20-30 ft above the 1000ft marker when they flared and ballooned even higher. At this point the three of us thought he was going around until he pushed the nose over. I will admit it was such a hard pushover that even before he hit the ground at the 1500 ft marker, nose gear first (barley before the underside of the AC nose hit I yelled Holy S**t. I believe after the pushover someone tried to get the nose back up but it was a lost cause. The fact the AC stayed in one piece is amazing. The nose gear looked like it was on a shock disappearing back into the wheel well. The left engine hit first and the AC started sliding left. It was pure luck that no one was hurt, as the area it came to a stop in had a few minutes earlier been full of AC taxiing." Passenger video that appears to corroborate the observations above:
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 23:32:51 +0000
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