Passengers aboard an All Nippon Airways propjet that made an emergency landing at Kochi airport Tuesday after its nose gear failed to extend recounted their two-hour ordeal before their safe touchdown.
No one was injured among the 56 passengers and four crew members when the twin-engined Bombardier DHC-8 turboprop made a safe landing on its main gear and then carefully lowered the nose to the runway at 10:54 a.m.
"The passengers were told about the nose gear malfunction some 20 minutes after takeoff," said Shuji Kurebe, 30, a travel agency worker in Osaka Prefecture. "But all the passengers appeared calm and no one panicked."