From what i heard he did not declare an emergency. he acknowledged a normal landing clearance.
Well judging by the ATC tape it was ops normal until they hit, they were cleared to land and no emergency seems to have been declared since a United flight was waiting to go just short of the runway. They must have got a pretty good view of that.
Either something happened very short final and the crew had no time to advise ATC or they were unaware of anything wrong/didn't communicate it to tower.
Last edited by tbaylx; 6th Jul 2013 at 20:25.