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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

I am on LA Fire...I cant get LAX from my loc.


721 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:10 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: kingu
I remember reading that JetBlue outsources their heavy duty maintenance to El Salvador. Would be interest to see if this plane took a visit south of the border.

http://www.labornet.org/news/0105/contout.htm

Airlines, Facing Cost Pressure, Outsource Crucial Safety Tasks
Heavy Maintenance on Planes Entrusted to Contractors;
A Busy Hub in El Salvador
722 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:19 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: kingu; Denver Ditdat

Scissor link broke. If the over center is down and locked it ought to straighten when it touches down.


723 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:19 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: mylife

Wow, they justr said that the Mayor is headed to LAX.... And what's he going to do? I don't like him as you can tell!


724 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:20 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady (Close the borders.....)
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To: tubebender
A stowaway in the nose wheel cavity...

Lanky guy? Cowboy hat? Holster, no gun? Sheriff's star? Female accomplice with red hair?

725 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:28 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Today's game: The FR Patriots v. The Hatriots)
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To: lawdude

Yeah, but she's cute....


726 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:30 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Damn, I can't it either.


727 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:32 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: BurbankKarl


Karl! Is THAT right? French made, El Salvador maintained. This is freaky -- a unique situation, right?


728 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:33 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: Black Tooth

FYI - Jet Blue has Fox News on Board for passengers


729 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:35 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: glock rocks

hiya glock! we agree!! hope all is well with ya.


730 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:38 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: CAluvdubya

FNC is going into overdrive now to cover this.


731 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Lorraine
---I'm on the phone with my boyfriend who is an aeronautical engineer and he says this isn't good at all. Play for these people and their poor families who might be watching this right now. I can't imagine anything worse.---

your boyfriend must be a freshman.

honestly, barring something unforseen, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being getting food poisoning from the in flight meal, and 10 being flying into the side of a mountain at full throttle, this is about a 2

732 posted on 09/21/2005 5:47:51 PM PDT by smonk
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To: glock rocks

Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit eating cinnamon toast


733 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:06 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: Die_Hard Conservative Lady

Wow! the Mayor? thats preposterous


734 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:19 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: lawdude

CNN just reported - landing expected in 3 min (about a minute ago). Prayers for all...may they be safe!


735 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:22 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Die_Hard Conservative Lady

Hi, DHCL! I don't like him either! :)


736 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:23 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Death to Islamo-Fascists ...)
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To: lawdude

She is, lol...but the guys love her!


737 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:26 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

Unless the steering gear is jammed...


738 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:32 PM PDT by jettester (I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
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To: BurbankKarl; Black Tooth

124.9: Downey -- LAX south side final


739 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: Central Scrutiniser


This plane has 140 passengers on board and six crew members.

What the good little 100 seaters?


740 posted on 09/21/2005 5:48:43 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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