A Delta airplane landed safely without its front landing gear at the Charlotte-Douglas International airport in North Carolina, the airline said. No injuries have been reported among the two pilots, flight attendants or 96 customers on board the flight. The Boeing 717 remains on the runway following the mechanical issue, but all passengers have been evacuated. The flight had left from Atlanta earlier on Wednesday. In a statement to the BBC, Delta airlines called the morning's events a "rare occurrence" but said that Delta crews "train extensively to safely manage through many scenarios and flight 1092 landed safely without reported injuries". "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 an audio clip from air traffic control posted by local CBS News affiliate CBS 17, a pilot from flight 1092 says the plane has "a nose-wheel unsafe indication". "We're going to have to go ahead and declare an emergency," the pilot says. "We have 104 souls on board... we have 50 minutes worth of fuel." In a statement posted to Twitter, the Charlotte airport said a runway remained closed following the "mechanical issue" with the Delta flight.<br/>
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Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee has opened investigations into a hard landing by a Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737-800. The incident, which took place on 30 March, left scratches on the lower surface of the aircraft’s aft fuselage, as well as on the runway surface, says the committee in a preliminary report. <br/>The 737 (registration PK-GMC) was operating flight GA867 from Bangkok to Jakarta, and was approaching Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport when the incident occurred. It was carrying 76 passengers and eight crew members. On final approach to the airport, the aircraft’s autopilot and autothrottle disengaged and the pilot started manual flying. At around 300ft, the pilot flying noticed the engine speed was at around 53% N1 level, and increased the throttle to about 57%. While passing the runway threshold that the flight crew noticed alerts from the aircraft’s enhanced ground-proximity warning system “sounded faster than normal”. The flight crew were reported to have felt “bouncing” during touchdown. The aircraft’s second touchdown “felt…fairly harder”, the report notes. The aircraft subsequently parked at the airport, where inspections revealed scratches to the narrowbody’s aft fuselage skin, as well as damage to the tailskid damper. The runway surface was also found to have scratches. Investigations are still ongoing, says the committee, which has classified the incident as serious. According to Cirium fleets data, the aircraft (MSN30155) was delivered to Garuda in 2009 and is managed by DAE Capital.<br/>