VIDEO: Jet Makes Emergency 'Wheels Up' Landing In Warsaw

NPR | By Mark Memmott

Published November 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM EDT

<p>This Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines made an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland earlier today (Nov. 1, 2011). </p> — This Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines made an emergency landing at Warsaw airport, Poland earlier today (Nov. 1, 2011).

The early reports are that everyone's OK after LOT Airlines flight 16 from Newark, N.J., to Warsaw, Poland, had to land on its belly today because of problems with the landing gear. According to CNN, Polish TV says there were 230 people on board the Boeing 767.

Local TV cameras were rolling as the plane came in.

There's a pretty clear video view here.

12:05 p.m. ET: Courtesy of The Associated Press, another video view.

11:30 a.m. ET: The video we embedded earlier has been pulled off YouTube.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.

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