Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
I was pilot monitoring. About 2 miles from the final approach fix captain called gear down.  After I selected gear down we got a gear disagree message and noticed that the nose wheel was not in the down and locked position. We immediately executed a go-around. Got a vector and an altitude and ran the QRH. We decided to attempt a second approach. On that approach we experienced the same indication once the gear was selected down. We did another go-around and continued to run the QRH. After all the procedures were completed we had an all 3 green indication. Once that was complete we did a low approach to have the ground crew try and verify the nose gear was down. They thought it was down and we had 3 green indication so we did the approach again and landed. Captain did the landing and kept the nose off as long as possible. Once the nose touched down we noticed a different sound than normal and we did not have any steering. So we stopped on the runway and were towed to the gate. Try and keep the QRH in better condition. The QRH in the plane had pages falling out; which made it difficult to find the correct pages.
CRJ-200 First Officer reported a failure of the nose gear to extend properly during approach. Using QRH procedures a safe indication was achieved; but there was no steering upon landing.