Posted on 09/22/2005 6:02:50 AM PDT by frankjr
...The landing gear had not retracted, the pilot said. ...
The back of each seat on a JetBlue plane is equipped with a small television set. As passengers watched, live, in-flight broadcasts of MSNBC and Fox News began to show their airplane. Ash glanced at the television of the passenger next to him: "At first I just thought, 'Of course, Fox News,' " he said, discounting the story as sensationalized. "But then it was on MSNBC." ...
But his humor faded as he listened to television commentators talking about the flight.
"One guy was saying, 'You know, I'm just speculating, but the landing gear will break off, and the nose will drive into the pavement,' and this and that."
It went on like that, one expert after another saying the noise would be horrific, that it would be awful. ...
The crew sought out the handful of doctors on the flight, including Ash's flying companion, moved them to specified seats and told them to be ready.
But as the plane drew closer to the ground, emotions intensified, he said. People remained quiet. Many held hands. A few cried.
Parents tried to calm their children, and a baby cried. In front of Ash, a woman began sobbing loudly.
Everyone bent over, heads between their knees. The flight crew began chanting: "Brace, brace, brace!"
Ash remembers praying. ...
Then the plane came to a halt, and the cabin erupted in cheers.
When the pilot emerged to stand among the passengers, the cheers redoubled, and the pilot was hugged and applauded.
But Ash also recalled a few passengers who did not join the celebration. They remained frozen in their seats, he said, in the same position they had assumed for the landing, too terrified to move.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
They show live TV on Jetblue? Plane wrecks, etc? They won't even show that stuff in the airports.
And the article says they left the TV's on until just before landing.
But there's no bias! At least nowhere but Fox News. < / sarcasm >
I saw a woman interviewed this morning -- she said they turned the tv's off about a 1/2 hour before they landed.
sounds like the movie "Airplane" when the in flight movie is that of a plane being obliterated as it slams into the ground...
"Good ol' LA Slimes, manages to work in a smear of FNC."
Yeah, that was funny. Especially where the guy says "but then it was on MSNBC"...like that makes it real news (with the likes of Chris Matthew, Keith Olbermann and Ron Reagan Jr, Husky Rita....and previously Phil Donohue)
I've been on two flights like that over the past 20 years. Very strange, thinking that the end is very possibly just five minutes away, then four, then three...
I think they do.CNN,Fox News,etc.I assume that the Captain had the ability to shut it down,but if he had done so he would have had to claim that it was due to technical difficulties.Otherwise,it would have caused even more panic.
The captain gave orders that after they landed, to be sure to keep the "media hounds" away from him - the indication, though, was he actually said "media whores"...
He probably FReeps.
I go through the same experience driving back and forth to work each day.
What WASNT mentioned is that there were NBC employees on that flight. Wonder if Ash was one of em. They had the employees on the phone, on MSNBC, IMMEDIATELY after the flight for interviews.
These are also the people who will be suing Jet Blue,Airbus,the FAA and the owners of LAX.
Those TVs are the reason I always choose Jet Blue whenever it is available. They are great.
"Everyone bent over, heads between their knees".....
Impossible.
No normal sized adult can possibly get their heads between their knees in "economy" class. There's not enough seat pitch.
In fact, the seat pitch is sooo small,.......How small is it?
It's so small, you have to go out in the aisle to change your mind.
I guarantee that at least one of the passengers will commence a lawsuit against Jet Blue, the air plane manufacturer, the pilot and flight crew, LAX, Long Beach Airport, and President Bush to recover damages for extreme emotional distress, and before anyone blames the evil trial lawyers, remember that a lawyer can't sue in a case like this unless he has a cliet willing to roll in the gutter with him.
Yes they are.
LOL. God bless him. That was a beautiful landing. I wouldn't mind flying with that captain and flight crew :)
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