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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: onyx

Thanks.


341 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:01 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: onyx
---Smonk says because it's French made.

I "think" he's joking.---

I was absolutely joking. french landing gear doesn't know forwards from sideways? like french tanks have backup lights?

342 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:11 PM PDT by smonk
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To: onyx
MSNBC just said that they are expecting to land at 5:25pm local time...

This is going to be intense. Lord have mercy on them.

At least LAFD is on the ground, they'll be in good hands!

343 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:14 PM PDT by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
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To: OXENinFLA

8:25 -- apx 16 minutes from now


344 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:37 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Durka Durka Durka. Muhammed Jihad Durka.)
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To: doug from upland

This may last for awhile -- hours.

Shades of the Melon truck chase a few weeks back. :-o


345 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: Army Air Corps


They've been in the air since 3 -- but 3 what? Pacific?


346 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:40 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: smonk

wow that's only 20 mins


347 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:40 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: kcvl

"Rita will be the third worst storm in HISTORY.

BTW, the landing will be at 5:25 pm"

I need picture-in-picture. Or at least I need to figure out how to work it on my TV.


348 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:44 PM PDT by frankjr
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To: PilloryHillary
Yet the ABC news report that just broke in on my Cardinals game, said that that plane doesn't have a fuel jettison system and would have to circle for hours.

This is the main reason I hate breaking news because you get several differing versions.

349 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:48 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57)
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To: TomGuy
The connection is The UAL airplane had OSV heavy maintenance on the AirBus, JetBlue has OSV heavy maintenance done in El Salvador.
350 posted on 09/21/2005 5:08:55 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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To: onyx

yes


351 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:06 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: onyx

3 PST


352 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:06 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: kstewskis

NBC's Bob Hager--the best--is on MSNBC now.


353 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:07 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: OXENinFLA

8:25pm Eastern Time


354 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:13 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: onyx
Army Air Corps says they are not. That they can't.

I saw the fuel being dumped myself on the close-up on MSNBC.

FAA saying now they are dumping fuel.

355 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:19 PM PDT by Semper911 ("If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax." Abe Lincoln)
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To: onyx
They've been in the air since 3 -- but 3 what? Pacific?

Yes.

356 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:22 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: smonk


But French made being faulty wouldn't shock me.


357 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:26 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: OXENinFLA

8:25 ET


358 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kingu
Image hosted by TinyPic.com

Damned 'angelfire' blocked my image earlier.....

use tinypic FTW!

359 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:45 PM PDT by KoRn
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To: frankjr
"Rita will be the third worst storm in HISTORY. "

still in the middle of the gulf.

360 posted on 09/21/2005 5:09:55 PM PDT by smonk
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