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.

[prairiebreeze]

Hopefully the ground crew won't have any duties other than to ensure the plane isn't on fire and get the people off unharmed. Fingers crossed here!

[NRA2BFree]

MSNBC hasn't broke for a commerical once. By now FoxNews would have blared that annoying Sandals commerical 3 times.

I know. That's exactly why I'm watching MSNBC. I saw it breaking on my local TV station in Albuquerque so I flipped it over to FOX and it wasn't showing. I surfed a couple of channels to MSNBC and they were showing it. I flipped back to FOX about 4 times just checking and O'Reilly was interviewing Donald Trump. Needless to say they weren't even showing it. They are pretty worthless anymore. There are only a couple of their programs that I will watch now.

[nicmarlo]

no...I hope no folks ended up having heart problems....and such.

[NormsRevenge]

He's on another runway getting a haircut. ;-)

[bonfire]

What are you talking about??

[Central Scrutiniser]

First female captain they have, not first captain. Duhhhh

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks. Prayers for all up there.

[RunningWolf]

For a steerable nose gear I doubt it, the mains would not this problem

[Hank Rearden]

As long as you feel better - that's what gets me through the day.

[tiredoflaundry]

What the heck are you talking about?

[Trust but Verify]

He and his crew did an incredible job. If you look at the tape of that crash, you cannot beleive anyone survived, let alone most.

[onyx]

I'm sure they're schooling the passengers --- what to do and which rows to go to -- I always TRY to sit in one of the emergency exit rows (long legs) and after this, I think I will be CERTAIN to sit there every time.

[Black Tooth]

He'll be coming in just above stall speed.

Seeing huge deployment at LAX.

[hole_n_one]

[Amish with an attitude]

"LA County Fire Airships"

Airship = Blimp

[Mrs.Nooseman]

HUH?

[al baby]

[Liberty Valance]

Bush's fault. He doesn't care about nose gear.

[prairiebreeze]

I hope I could keep my cool. One really never knows until the situation presents itself. The flight crew plays a big part in passenger management, for sure.

[mylife]

Any word from Tower comms?