An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after its front tire blew. Flight 1461 had taken off Wednesday from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina at about 7 p.m. and was scheduled to land at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International about an hour and 45 minutes later. When the Boeing 737-800 arrived in Newark, though, it experienced a “malfunctioning nose landing gear” and had to make an emergency landing, a Port Authority spokesperson said. No injuries were reported, and the plane was towed to the gate after landing. The emergency landing came two days after Newark faced a temporary ground stop after smoke disrupted operations inside the air traffic control tower. It also follows a deadly crash in nearby LaGuardia Airport, where on Sunday an Air Canada flight crashed into a firetruck that was on the runway, killing two pilots and hospitalizing dozens of passengers.
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