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.

[smonk]

not today, they don't

[NormsRevenge]

I hear ya, but they have all they need at LAX too.

[jwalsh07]

[Major_Risktaker]

Nice pic TomGuy,

Tricky landing coming up.

[Black Tooth]

Good shot of the front gear.

[Guenevere]

not going with this story for sure

[ChadGore]

No fuel dump ability?

Not good engineering.

Sorry Airbus, you failed.

[Sprite518]

I know and the moron has no clue of the basics of Supply and Demand. What an idiot. I am sitting hear laughing at him. Well I guess that is what you get from a Harvard education these days..... What a dumba$$.

[hole_n_one]

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Avlist ping emergency-landing-in-progress ping

[nuconvert]

They said LAX is already standing by with foam and lots of emergency equip

[doug from upland]

KFWB news in Los Angeles says that the plane can't dump fuel. All it can do is fly and burn fuel. This may last for awhile -- hours.

[frankjr]

"The Airbus A320 was dumping fuel over the Pacific, said
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050921/ap_on_re_us/airliner_emergency

[Serb5150]

Joining you in prayer.

[PilloryHillary]

MSNBC has a guy who isn't sure about whether this particular plane can dump fuel.

[onyx]

Oh God, kstew. You really know how they;re feeling. I cannot imagine. Don't want to either. Lord have mercy.

[Black Tooth]

Jus tuned in. It appears the pilot is burning off fuel.

[Petronski]

BOR and FOX: perfect together.

But for live news, try something else.

CNN says Rita's eye pressure is 898! 898!

[eternity]

And I sure hope this guy flying didn't go to flight school in Florida commuting via camel.

[mylife]

This is going to be a long while with no dump ability.