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Burn off as much fuel as possible and the pilot will touchdown lightly like a feather and hold the nose wheel up. keep the wheel back as long as possible and let all the force of the landing rest on the back wheels. if that's what's wrong. now, if it's one of the two back wheels, that's a much tougher situation. that's harder. you have to kind of hold one side up from the other. >> hold one side up from the other? what exactly does that mean? >> you have to try to keep the -- it's incredibly difficult. when you land you have to at the last minute adjust so you touchdown on the wheel that you h...

Might be wrong with the landing gear. and then they may go around for a while and see if they can drop as much fuel as possible because if it is a landing gear problem what you want to do is you want to land as light as possible on the longest runway possible. if it's a nose gear problem we saw this a few years ago in los angeles with that jetblue plane where the nose gear was actually turned. we're not speculating because we simply do not know what's wrong with the landing gear, but that plane dropped all its fuel, flewing if hours and touched -- flew for fours -- for hours and touched down v...

Waiting, just sitting in my chair going what is going on? just talk to the people out there, tell them what you're doing and i'm sure the pilots are in good communication with those passengers because it's a fearful time if you only have three pieces of landing gear. we don't know whether it's main gear or nose gear that has the problem. main gear if both of them are down we have a nose gear problem the plane will land and slide on the nose but it's better to have two of the main gear down than only have one main gear down and the nose because all of a sudden that's not a good landing. >> and ...

Flight 345 from bna, that's nashville, to laguardia. we're gathering details, we'll post a statement soon. there you see this tweet from southwest airlines. fortunately, according to the faa, no reported injuries. that's what they're saying onboard. that's what they're saying at least for now. passengers, according to the faa, are still onboard, but we see those chutes that have been lowered and hopefully folks are getting off that plane right now. it's a boeing 737. mike ahlers, our cnn producer, tells us that all the aircraft of southwest airlines are boeing 737s. the plane was coming in for...

It involves a southwest flight from nashville to new york. take a look at this picture just getting in. what do we know about what happened at laguardia? >> reporter: we're hearing from the faa that this plane that you're looking at right now, a southwest flight from nashville, had problems with its nose gear. the plane did land around 5:45. no reported injuries. the faa tells us, though, that passengers are still onboard that flight and that laguardia airport here in new york, according to the faa, is not accepting planes for now. we're monitoring the situation. as soon as we get more informa...