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Airplane makes emergency landing at Newark Airport

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    Pilot lands aircraft safely in New Jersey

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United express -- Shuttle America flight 5124.

Its nose down slides deployed on the runway at Newark Airport.

The end of a wild in terrifying ride for passengers and crew.

You know.

It's.

And there's some good you know it's don't -- The flight from Atlanta was coming in for a landing around 6:30 PM when the crew detected a malfunction in the front landing gear and couldn't confirm if it was down.

They had to get air traffic controllers to tell them the bad news they'd land without nose gear.

My personal decision that you want from -- back a little more than he would.

It.

The runways -- then phoned in preparation for landing.

This man got a text from his wife who was onboard the plane.

The plane and I -- going from -- to go.

Will be going -- emergency landing there many do we know we're not open -- -- you.

The plane landed safely and passengers were -- to the terminal.

The airport was briefly closed and people in the air on other flights could only wonder what was going on.

Without electricity shooting a movie or something like this would be -- -- there's a lot of lights around it.

Police I mean it is what it is I mean they're playing we'll definitely grounded the nose was on the floor of the airport quickly reopened two runways and planes started landing again and made me very scared and it made me realize that I should pray before every flight while in flight and for the landing -- --