An EMB145 EICAS alerted lg/disagree after takeoff with a red box around the nose gear so an emergenc...

Narrative:

Taking off after rotation and gear knob selected up; we hear a loud noise coming from the nose wheel well. Before being transfer to departure frequency we ask tower to stay in the pattern to solve this malfunction. The warning message landing gear disagreements popped up and the red box on the nose EICAS was present. We continue with the QRH procedure of lg/disagree and recycle the landing gear down and return back to the airport. We did a low pass over the runway with tower authorization to confirm; visually that we have all landing gear down. We return once again for a precautionary landing after being told by maintenance to come back to base. We landed safely; and overweight by 300 pounds with a soft landing. We were escort to the gate after landing. [We were] landing over weight due landing gear malfunction by 300 pounds with a smooth landing. This aircraft had previous record of nose landing gear noise. Air return; go around; and low pass over the airport. [We had a] flight delay; due maintenance on the airplane before this flight; long duty day.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An EMB145 EICAS alerted LG/DISAGREE after takeoff with a red box around the nose gear so an emergency was declared; the QRH complied with; and the flight returned to the departure airport.

Narrative: Taking off after rotation and gear knob selected up; we hear a loud noise coming from the nose wheel well. Before being transfer to Departure frequency we ask Tower to stay in the pattern to solve this malfunction. The warning message landing gear disagreements popped up and the red box on the nose EICAS was present. We continue with the QRH procedure of LG/Disagree and recycle the landing gear down and return back to the airport. We did a low pass over the runway with Tower authorization to confirm; visually that we have all landing gear down. We return once again for a precautionary landing after being told by Maintenance to come back to base. We landed safely; and overweight by 300 LBS with a soft landing. We were escort to the gate after landing. [We were] landing over weight due landing gear malfunction by 300 LBS with a smooth landing. This aircraft had previous record of nose landing gear noise. Air return; go around; and low pass over the airport. [We had a] flight delay; due Maintenance on the airplane before this flight; long duty day.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1006531
Time
Date	201204
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Landing Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

An EMB145 EICAS alerted lg/disagree after takeoff with a red box around the nose gear so an emergency was declared; the QRH complied with; and the flight returned to the departure airport.