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Breaking: Jet Blue emergency landing, Long Beach, CA (UPDATE: Plane Landed Safely)
KABC Channel 7, live broadcast

Posted on 09/21/2005 4:21:43 PM PDT by kingu

A Jet Blue aircraft just did a low altitude flyby of Long Beach airport after reporting some concern with their forward gear. The television helicopter caught an image of it - the gear is turned sideways and tilted.

Aircraft is heading out towards the ocean to drop fuel, will turn around, and attempt a 'soft field' landing, keeping the nose up as long as possible.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: a320; airbus; airbust; airlines; bur; burbank; california; canyonblue; flight292; jetblue; landinggear; lax; lgb; longbeach; losangeles; messierdowty; prayers; safelanding; scarebus; socal
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To: CedarDave



SOB - Sons Of Babes ? :-D)


1,241 posted on 09/21/2005 6:31:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: arasina

Those passengers are going to FREAK when they see the film of what they went through.

I suspect there might be ore than one person on board who will name their next kid after the pilot.

Anyone know the pilot's name?


1,242 posted on 09/21/2005 6:32:18 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Durka Durka Durka. Muhammed Jihad Durka.)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
---Planes are planes, irrational hatred of a plane because of the french is just stupid.---

and the french are french. hatred of them and their crappy products doesn't strike me as particularly irrational, considering their overtly anti-american attitudes.

1,243 posted on 09/21/2005 6:32:40 PM PDT by smonk
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To: glock rocks

Wimpy Burgers for everybody!

Yur buying! :)


1,244 posted on 09/21/2005 6:32:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: yield 2 the right
Per MSNBC...."this may a Sim for future Airplane pilots"

Almost all incidents and accidents are used in the simulators to train pilots. One of the most difficult is United Flight 232 which crashed Sioux City, Iowa.

1,245 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:03 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Cindy Sheehan, Pat Buchanan, John Conyers, and David Duke Are Just Different Sides of the Same Coin.)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds
Everyone in our office just let out a loud cheer...it was so wild watching that right in front of our windows as we parallel 25-L runway.

WOW! Now that is as close as you can get.

1,246 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:16 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker
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To: freedumb2003

some people are walking off talking on the cellphones but waving jubilantly to the cameras


1,247 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:29 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: Larry Lucido

They will jack it and get it off the runway. That runway is usually used this time of day for all the 747's going off to Asia and Europe.

I hope to be flying out of there in a few weeks or so on EVA airlines.


1,248 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:29 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never pet a dog that is on fire)
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To: wallcrawlr

Sorry, I'm not really grumpy, I just don't like how some profess to know God saved this plane, when there's clearly many tragedies he does ~not~ prevent.


1,249 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:45 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN


I've had 3 "too close" calls

2 while in the service

1 in a helicopter

1 in a bad hurricane

1 in a turbo-prop

--

excellent pilot

set it down like catching an egg

--


1,250 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:48 PM PDT by devolve (-------------- (--- under deconstruction ---)
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To: freedumb2003
Anyone know the pilot's name?

His name is Hero. :o)

1,251 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:53 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Sorry you are so negative tonite. I hope this is not a lifestyle for you; you're missing much.


1,252 posted on 09/21/2005 6:33:54 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: Baynative; NormsRevenge; onyx; BurbankKarl; Brad's Gramma; Chicos_Bail_Bonds; GRRRRR
Firemen can't get to the passengers... AISLES ARE BLOCKED BY LIQUOR CARTS!

Sedation underway....

*******************************************

Now the big question....

What are the chances we had a FREEPER on board?

1,253 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: COEXERJ145

I'm glad they had United 232's Captain doing commentary.

He and crew did a helluva job as well that fateful day in Iowa.


1,254 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: smonk; central scrutinizer

and the french are french. hatred of them and their crappy products doesn't strike me as particularly irrational, considering their overtly anti-american attitudes.




BUMP THAT!


1,255 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:11 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: CedarDave

Sorry Dave.

You know it is possible to turn off graphics on your browser... really speeds up load time for dialup.


1,256 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:23 PM PDT by glock rocks (Bring back dirndl !!!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
---Sorry, I'm not really grumpy, I just don't like how some profess to know God saved this plane, when there's clearly many tragedies he does ~not~ prevent.---

ruh, roh.

1,257 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:26 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Baynative

For real? If so, I wonder if that's part of a strategy to move as much weight as possible back towards the functional rear landing gear.


1,258 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:37 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach


You think?


1,259 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:42 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: CedarDave

????


1,260 posted on 09/21/2005 6:34:42 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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