All 89 people on the flight were unharmed in the dramatic landing. Passengers on a Myanmar National Airlines flight have a brilliant flight crew to thank for miraculously landing safely after the plane's front landing gear failed to deploy. Flight UB103 touched down at Mandalay International Airport at 9:09 a.m. local time with all 82 passengers and seven crew members able to safely evacuate the plane after it scraped its nose down the runway and came to a perfect stop. On approach, the captain tried to deploy the front landing gear, but found out it was malfunctioning and could not be activated, the airline said in a statement. After circling the airport to burn off fuel, the captain came in for a landing with no front wheel. Video shot from inside the airport showed the plane landing on its back wheels, steadying and then eventually coming down on its nose -- sending a shower of sparks down the runway. Miraculously, it slid to a stop before passengers were able to be evacuated by inflatable slide. "Myanmar National Airlines would like to express our deepest appreciation to all the passengers onboard and our crews," the airline said in the statement. The plane, an Embraer 190, had taken off from Yangon, Myanmar, about an hour flight south of Mandalay. The airline commended Capt. Myat Moe Aung, first officers Myo Thiha Aung and Kaung Set Lwin, purser Cherry Myint and three attendants for safely landing the plane. ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway and Will Gretsky contributed to this report.<doc-sep>A pilot is being praised after a successful landing at Myanmar's Mandalay International Airport Sunday with no front wheels, according to CNN and The Guardian. Myanmar National Airlines Flight UB-103, which was carrying 82 passengers, was headed from Yangon to Mandalay when the pilot, Captain Myat Moe Aung, discovered there was a problem with the landing gear, the news sites report. In a statement to CNN, the airline says Aung "followed emergency procedures and did the fuel burn out to reduce the landing weight." He then brought the jet down on its rear wheels, lowering the nose carefully onto the runway where it skidded to a halt. “The pilot did a great job,” Win Khant, the country's permanent secretary of transportation and telecommunication ministry, told Reuters. No passengers were injured, the news sites report. Despite the successful landing, the airline issued a statement to their Facebook page apologizing for the incident. "Myanmar National Airlines would like to apologize all on boarded passengers, their relatives and friends for any inconveniences and anxieties caused," the translated statement read. "Myanmar National Airlines do appreciate all passengers coordinated during flight emergency." USA TODAY has reached out to the airline for comment. More:Boeing 737 makes emergency landing in Tennessee following a 'potential mechanical issue' More:13 American Airlines passengers taken to hospital after landing in Boston<doc-sep>A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday, using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy. All 82 passengers and seven crew members aboard Flight UB103 from Yangon were declared safe after the Brazilian-made Embraer 190-LR touched down on its rear sets of wheels before the plane's nose tilted down to scrape the runway, sending off a shower of sparks as it slowed to a stop. Rescue team gather near the plane at Mandalay International airport on Sunday in Mandalay, Myanmar. All passengers and crew are reported safe and uninjured after a Myanmar National Airlines plane made a scheduled but emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on only its rear landing wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy. (Aung Thura via AP) (Aung Thura via AP) Kyaw San, a spokesman for the airport, said the pilot informed the control tower before landing that he was unable to pull down the nose wheels. A statement on the airline's Facebook page explained that the plane's EICAS — Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System — indicated a failure of the front landing gear to deploy. The pilot tried a backup emergency procedure to pull down the wheels but that was unsuccessful. The aircraft did two fly-bys past the tower for air controllers to check visually whether the wheels had deployed. The captain followed emergency procedures to dump fuel to reduce the landing weight, and made a safe landing at 9:09 a.m., said the statement. Video apparently was shot by one of the passengers and posted online showed an urgent but orderly evacuation of the passengers and crew. Passengers were seen walking away from the plane across the airfield, several of them smiling. Flight operations at the airport were temporarily suspended, and allowed to resume after about 2½ hours for smaller aircraft. The runways were expected to be reopened for use by larger Boeing and Airbus aircraft by late afternoon. On Wednesday , a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft skidded off the runway after landing in bad weather at Yangon's airport, injuring at least 15 passengers and crew but none critically. The fuselage of the plane, a Bombardier Dash 8, was broken in at least two spots, along with the wings.<doc-sep>This was the second instance of a malfunctioning flight in less than a week within the country. A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft's landing gear failed, forcing the jet into an emergency landing with no front wheels on Sunday morning, an official said. The nailbiting touchdown -- in which nobody was injured -- was the second instance of a malfunctioning flight in less than a week within the country. The Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 -- an Embraer-190 model -- was grounded at around 9 am in Mandalay (0230 GMT), a city popular among foreign tourists, with all 89 people on board including seven crew members, safe. An unverified video circulated on social media showing a graceful landing before the nose of the jet tipped over and ground to a halt. Ye Htut Aung, deputy director general of Myanmar's Civil Aviation Department, told AFP the pilot tried repeatedly to drop the landing gear at the front of the plane -- first through its computer system, then manually. "They tried hard twice by flying around twice and asked to check whether the nose wheel dropped or not," Ye Htut Aung said, calling it a "technical fault". "So they had to land with the back wheels... The pilot could land it skillfully," he said. "There were no casualties." Myanmar National Airlines are now sending engineers to Mandalay to check on the aircraft, Ye Htut Aung said, adding that all jets get a daily flight check. Passenger Soe Moe told AFP: "Smoke came out a little when we landed... All passengers are okay." Sunday's incident comes just days after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane crash-landed and slid off a runway while landing in Yangon airport during a storm on Wednesday, leaving 11 passengers injured. Myanmar's monsoon season has caused problems for commercial and military flights in the past. A military plane crashed into the Andaman sea in 2017 with 122 people on board -- one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country's history -- which authorities attributed to bad weather. And in 2015, a passenger plane by Air Bagan veered off the runway due to bad weather and heavy rain.<doc-sep>
There were no casualties or injuries from the incident, though smoke could be seen as passengers disembarked the plane Myanmar pilot Captain Myat Moe Aung skillfully landed his plane without its front wheels Sunday after the aircraft’s landing gear failed, saving his passengers and crew from a potential aircraft tragedy. According to The Guardian, the Myanmar National Airlines flight UB-103 was carrying 82 passengers and seven crew members headed from Yangon to Mandalay, when Captain Aung realized there was a problem with the landing gear. He repeatedly tried to deploy the gear before following “emergency procedures” and initiating a “fuel burn-out to reduce the landing weight,” the airline said in a statement to CNN. Rescue team work on a plane of Myanmar National Airlines Credit: Aung Thura/AP/REX/Shutterstock Rescue team work on a plane of Myanmar National Airlines Credit: Aung Thura/AP/REX/Shutterstock Myanmar National Airlines Credit: Myanmar National Airlines “They tried hard twice by flying around twice and asked [the flight tower] to check whether the nose wheel dropped or not,” deputy director general of Myanmar’s civil aviation department, Ye Htut Aung, told The Guardian. “So they had to land with the back wheels.” After reducing the landing weight with the fuel burn-out, Captain Aung carefully navigated the plane down onto the runway, landing on its two rear wheels before slowly lowering the nose to the ground. The entire incident was captured in an unverified video and shows the nose skidding along the runway with sparks flying before the plan comes to a stop. There were no casualties or injuries from the incident, and all passengers quickly disembarked following the landing. “Smoke came out a little when we landed,” one passenger, Soe Moe, told The Guardian. “All passengers are OK.” RELATED VIDEO: 5 People Killed After Plane Crashes Into California Home: ‘It Felt Like a Bomb,’ Says Neighbor Ye Htut Aung also told the outlet that Myanmar National Airlines would examine the aircraft, and Embraer— the aircraft company who made the plane—said it would offer “its full cooperation to the aviation authorities in order to aid in the investigation”.