What would you have done on EA401?
Some of you might be knowing something about Eastern Airlines flight 401 that crashed in the Everglades due to the crew that were distracted by a dysfunctional nose gear light not noticing that the aircraft was steadily descending towards the swamps.
Assume that you were the PIC on that flight and things had not gone wrong. The aircraft remained at 2000 ft. What would you have done?
I would have done a pass over the runway with the gear out and have airport ground crew inform us about the status of the nose gear. If the gear were to be out, I'd have gone 'round and come back 'round to pull of a smooth landing and to be on the safe side I would've had the ground emergency crew on standby.
What would you have done?