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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: al baby

not sure, saw this..
Long Beach Control Tower (Left) 119.4000
LAX Control Tower - North. 133.9000

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found this below as well
Haven't tried it yet.

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http://www.futurastudios.com/atc.html


281 posted on 09/21/2005 5:01:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: hole_n_one

I think this will resolve in two ways. 1. when the nose gear touches down the wheels will rotate to a correct orientation and the aircraft will roll to a stop. 2. when the aircraft lands the nosegear will collapse and the aircraft will slide to a stop on the runway. Either way, the highest potential for injury for those on board is when they exit the aircraft if they have to use the slides.


282 posted on 09/21/2005 5:01:51 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: onyx

That's what I have been wondering too, Onyx. How did that gear get messed up?

They surely can't blame this one on those darned birds!


283 posted on 09/21/2005 5:01:53 PM PDT by KylaStarr
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To: smonk
That's true. When it comes to Airbus the plane, not the pilot, knows best. We'll see.

Still BURNING off fuel since the Airbus cannot dump fuel. Must fly probably a couple hours to get the weight down. BEST CASE is the gear snaps off.

284 posted on 09/21/2005 5:01:56 PM PDT by newzjunkey (CA: Stop union theft for political agendas: YES on Prop 75!)
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To: onyx

Did they say it was an Airbus?


285 posted on 09/21/2005 5:01:58 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: sinkspur

FoxNews just cut out to the Bloviator. Amazing.


286 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:01 PM PDT by kcar (The UN sucks, but a runaway federal government's not much better)
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To: mhking

Thank you for the link - I've passed it on to several people.


287 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:12 PM PDT by Blue Champagne (Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?)
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To: frankjr

No. A soft field landing refers to a type of landing where you come in steep and slow with full flaps and hold the nose off the ground as long as possible to try and prevent the gear from sinking into a "soft" fileld, such as a water soaked grass runway.

I'm a pilot.


288 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:12 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: moonpie57
My understanding is that they need the longest runway that they can find

Then why aren't they going to Edwards AFB? Edwards has the field, the equipment, etc. and the plane needs to burn off fuel anyway.

289 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:12 PM PDT by berkeleybeej (and the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain)
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To: kingu
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290 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:13 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Las Vegas Dave

For all you guys ripping airbus planes, take a look at who built the planes in the last 5 or 6 crashes.

Airbus makes great planes, but even great planes have problems.

Hope it is OK, they got a good long runway at Long Beach airport, and Jet Blue has some very good pilots.


291 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:18 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never pet a dog that is on fire)
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To: Semper911

Boy. This is something!


292 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:46 PM PDT by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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To: tarator

When an aircraft dumps fuel it disipates almost instantly. Anything underneath the aircraft as it dumps fuel will never know what went on above them.


293 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:46 PM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: TomGuy

oh, yeah, tomguy. that be crooked.


294 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:51 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Army Air Corps

Wonder when it happened, he got off the ground ok. Maybe when they tried to retract.


295 posted on 09/21/2005 5:02:57 PM PDT by X-FID (If you spell it like "HEAR HERE!", you have a 100% chance of being half right.)
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Being out the east end of Los Angeles, I have to say it is quite strange not to see anyone in the pattern to land at LAX - does anyone know where they are diverting the flights to? Ontario? (Not seeing the normal 5pm Southwest flights coming over either.)


296 posted on 09/21/2005 5:03:01 PM PDT by kingu (Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
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To: kcar

BO?!
How could we miss the BO Show? ;)


297 posted on 09/21/2005 5:03:14 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Rokke

I think it's far more likely the front gear will simply snap off. Same result though.

Xanax and vodka all around, on the house!


298 posted on 09/21/2005 5:03:18 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Semper911; Army Air Corps


Army Air Corps says they are not. That they can't.

Can you see it being dumped or is PMSNBC just saying so?


299 posted on 09/21/2005 5:03:23 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Semper911
The landing will not be shown live until they're sure it's down safely.

Just heard someone on WABC radio saying the plane has no ability to drop fuel.

300 posted on 09/21/2005 5:03:25 PM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
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