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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: Black Tooth

Your lips to God's ears!!


501 posted on 09/21/2005 5:24:15 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: nicmarlo

Has FEMA been notified ?


502 posted on 09/21/2005 5:24:35 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: BurbankKarl

Ran out by front door, but can't see anything , course I am north of HB. and a few miles fron the beach.


503 posted on 09/21/2005 5:24:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: RunningWolf

I hope youre right


504 posted on 09/21/2005 5:24:53 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks for the ping.


505 posted on 09/21/2005 5:24:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: bonfire

PRAYERS !


506 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:02 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: uncitizen

It cracks me up to hear all the Junior Detective Corps theories is all ;~D


507 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:10 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: al baby

don't know....they apparently don't watch the news : )


508 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:17 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: sinkspur

Not even sure if this one had a C check yet. Jet Blue buys its 320's brand new, the first ones should be due for check soon. They take good care of their pilots, they all get laptops with all the jeppesen maps on it and all the plane system data on it on first day of training.

First time at LAX for Jet Blue (insider joke).


509 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:23 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never pet a dog that is on fire)
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To: agrace

I have to hand it to MSNBC for presenting some calm and reassuring information about how the pilots will safely put it down just in case the passengers are watching.


510 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:38 PM PDT by GOPrincess
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To: coloradan

United at O'Hare


511 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:39 PM PDT by RunningWolf (U.S. Army Veteran.....75-78)
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To: Central Scrutiniser

MSNBC: FD confirming the plane will land in the next 5-10 mins...


512 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:50 PM PDT by cgk (When the BIG ONE wipes out Hollywood can we call it Bush's Fault instead of the San Andreas Fault?)
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To: OXENinFLA
And he just said that Jet Blue has DirecTV ON BOARD........so the passergers are watching this on the news.

I guarantee you the flight crew has deactivated live TV. The passengers are watching old "Friends " reruns now.

513 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:57 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: NormsRevenge

This has happened before, just a few months ago this happened, I don't get the non stop coverage.

This gives the MSM the chance to not show the great job Texas is doing with the evacuation versus Louisiana.

They have been showing a plane fly in a circle for an hour for a landing that pilots are trained for.


514 posted on 09/21/2005 5:25:58 PM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Thanks for all the info, CS.


515 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:00 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: kingu

On the live CBS2 feed, the close up shows the front wheels. They appear to be loose, moving due to the airflow.


516 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:03 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: bill1952

Obviously I meant a touch on the rear gear...then a go.


517 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:05 PM PDT by TankerKC (The Media turn each tactical victory for insurgents into a strategic victory for terrorists.)
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To: smonk


LOL


518 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:08 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: kingu

I saw somwthing like this once while in the AF.

Not as big of an aircraft as this, but it wasn't pretty.

Trying a rear wheels up causes the tail to drag.

Prayers up here, strong and long. Bring her in easy Cap, easy as you go....


519 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:17 PM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: HairOfTheDog
You Junior Detective Corps types crack me up.

Let me have my try... A stowaway in the nose wheel cavity...

520 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:26 PM PDT by tubebender (OK...Whom stole my tag line???)
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