US passenger jet makes safe emergency landing in Los Angeles --- 11 minutes ago
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US airliner with 146 passengers and crew on board made a dramatic but safe emergency landing in a hail of sparks at Los Angeles airport, even though its nose wheels were locked wildly out of alignment.
The JetBlue Airways Airbus had earlier circled low over Long Beach airport to allow officials to take stock of the damage to its landing gear, which was twisted 90 degrees out of kilter, before it attempts a possibly dangerous landing, television pictures showed.
Scores of emergency services and fire engines were on standby on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport for the emergency landing of the Airbus A-320 that took off from nearby Burbank airport at 3:17 pm (2217 GMT) bound for New York's John F. Kennedy airport.
The jetliner, which can carry up to 156 passengers, was diverted back to the Los Angeles area shortly after setting out on its 5,000 kilometer (3,000 mile) transcontinental journey, airline officials said.
"After take off the pilot reported a landing gear indication light and as a precaution decided to return," JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin told AFP.
Channel 4 says they had 3 NBC personnel on the plane....tinfoil time...are they trying to oneup their competition here in the car chase capital of the WORLD???
They were getting inside info via cell phones...
Thanks to God for a good pilot and a safe landing.