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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: Dan Nunn

See #1315


1,321 posted on 09/21/2005 6:44:16 PM PDT by CedarDave ("I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter" -- Lt. Gen. Honoré)
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To: Angelwood

MSNBC - TVs turned off only 3min before landing


1,322 posted on 09/21/2005 6:44:31 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: smonk

Famous words on a breaking news thread: "keep me posted, I have to go take a shower"


1,323 posted on 09/21/2005 6:44:58 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Black Tooth
I gotta land this thing in front of millions of people!? Who the h*ll cares about the stupid landing gear!!
1,324 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:01 PM PDT by CarryaBigStick
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To: Sprite518

Some guy told MSNBC that they were able to watch cable TV until about "3 or 4 minutes" before they landed. How creepy.


1,325 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:09 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: radiohead

gate 8 gate 9 gate 10 gate 11 gate 12 gate 13 what a a whole


1,326 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:22 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

please...like I said...the entertainment companies subsidized Jet Blue's entry to Burbank...they took Aloha's gate when they bailed (not too many people trust a 737 to Hawaii)...there are a lot of NBCUniversal, Time Warner, Disney, DreamWorks people that fly those planes.


1,327 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:28 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
City of Los Angeles responded more equipment to this plane than the entire State of Louisiana did for Katrina.

You bet.

1,328 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:30 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: BurbankKarl
City of Los Angeles responded more equipment to this plane than the entire State of Louisiana did for Katrina.

Classic! HA! We have a nominee for post of the day!

1,329 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:39 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: PilloryHillary

They have Fox news on Jet Blue


1,330 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:51 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: CedarDave

My point stands. The images weren't even that big. Drop it, bud.


1,331 posted on 09/21/2005 6:46:11 PM PDT by Dan Nunn
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To: Black Tooth

They even had two USFS helos leave a brush fire and hover in the area.


1,332 posted on 09/21/2005 6:46:14 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: smonk
yeah, but the poor guy is still downloading a 500K shower stall every time he reloads the thread.

He needs a bigger cache - or broadband.

Granted, I do quite a bit of digital photography so my idea of high-resolution is considerably different than his.

1,333 posted on 09/21/2005 6:46:25 PM PDT by meyer (The DNC prefers advancing the party at the expense of human lives.)
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To: sullivan-fan
BUSH HAS BEEN BLAMED!!!
1,334 posted on 09/21/2005 6:46:45 PM PDT by doug from upland (Arianna Huffington loves that big gas guzzling Suburban)
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To: All; NormsRevenge; onyx

Channel 4 now has interview with an NBC personnel on the plane.

Did view some of the TV commentary on the airplane.


1,335 posted on 09/21/2005 6:46:49 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: HairOfTheDog
---Famous words on a breaking news thread: "keep me posted, I have to go take a shower"---

[sheepish look]

thanks.

1,336 posted on 09/21/2005 6:47:37 PM PDT by smonk
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To: MinuteGal
BUSH HAS BEEN BLAMED
1,337 posted on 09/21/2005 6:47:39 PM PDT by doug from upland (Arianna Huffington loves that big gas guzzling Suburban)
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To: PilloryHillary

To have this happen and then to be subjected to Alan Colmes in midair..

Oh The Humanity! :)


1,339 posted on 09/21/2005 6:48:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: CarryaBigStick

That was truely spectacular. Watching the plane just prior to landing. Then watching the front gear hit and hopeing that the sparks didn't cause an explosion. Bravo.


1,340 posted on 09/21/2005 6:48:22 PM PDT by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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