Breaking: Jet Blue emergency landing, Long Beach, CA (UPDATE: Plane Landed Safely)

KABC Channel 7, live broadcast

[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.

[agrace]

Watching this live on Fox and hearing Shep say "We're going to take a break and come back for this landing" makes me think, man, there's too much on TV these days, I sure hope we won't watch a horrible thing in a little bit here.

[PilloryHillary]

Uhm, so that IF they crash, there's less of a fire? They were fueled up for a long trip.

[Tony in Hawaii]

Less weight is better in an emergency landing.

[doug from upland]

Less fire if it comes down too hard.

[OXENinFLA]

MSNBC has it on and Hugh Hewitt is talking about it.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

so they don't explode when(if)they crash

[ianschwartz]

I'm not an expert .. but I think just incase they have to make a crash landing .. that the plane won't explode as bad with a full tank ... this plane was traveling from CA to NY.

[Imgr8t]

I would guess to decrease flammability. Maybe I'm wrong.

[nicmarlo]

May God steady the minds and hands of the pilots on this plane.

Amen!

[HKMk23]

... a lot of sparks shortly

NOT. KABC interviewing knowledgeable party who says "no fuel dump capability on the A320" (how flippin' STOOPID izzat?!) so they'll have to fly in circles for a few hours until they burn off enough fuel to make the landing attempt.

[frankjr]

"CNN is back covering New Orleans....sheesh."

Once CNN figures out how to blame Bush, they will cut back to the plane.

[HairOfTheDog]

It'll evaporate before it hits the ground, mostly.

[Petronski]

They'd rather have 1 unit of flammable fuel than 10 units when they scrape across the tarmac.

[meyer]

Prayers - this one is going to be scary. Hope that they can handle this bird all the way down without major incident.

[nicmarlo]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

No neeed to go to Edwards, pilots train for this kind of landing,, or so I'm told. ;-)

Besides a Soros sponsored enterprise wouldn't dare mess up/ :)

[bonfire]

I hear ya. Listening to the news of the hurricane when they broke in with this. Lordy.

[Bush gal in LA]

Thanks, Just heard them say they might try to land at LAX which is about 2 miles from me. What on earth is a ''safe foamy landing''?!!

[PilloryHillary]

Once CNN figures out how to blame Bush, they will cut back to the plane.

You know it! ;-)

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