For Passengers, Humor, Tears -- Then Cheers

LA Times ^ | 9/22/05 | Jill Leovy

[frankjr]

Crummy French planes.

[over3Owithabrain]

They show live TV on Jetblue? Plane wrecks, etc? They won't even show that stuff in the airports.

[frankjr]

And the article says they left the TV's on until just before landing.

[Coop]

Good ol' LA Slimes, manages to work in a smear of FNC.

But there's no bias! At least nowhere but Fox News. < / sarcasm >

[Kewz1]

I saw a woman interviewed this morning -- she said they turned the tv's off about a 1/2 hour before they landed.

[Hand em their arse]

sounds like the movie "Airplane" when the in flight movie is that of a plane being obliterated as it slams into the ground...

[Gay State Conservative]

Imagine the passengers being able to see the whole thing,live on TV while in flight.And imagine the phone calls and messages made/left by
the passengers onboard.

[frankjr]

"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)

[wtc911]

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...

[Conspiracy Guy]

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.

These are the people who normally sit by the emergency exits and prevent people from being able to use them.

[Gay State Conservative]

They show live TV on Jetblue?

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.

[ErnBatavia]

I was watching one of the L.A. channels yesterday, and one of the newsies had been monitoring the conversations from the cockpit between pilot, Jet Blue and tower.

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.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I go through the same experience driving back and forth to work each day.

[amadeus]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

These are the people who normally sit by the emergency exits and prevent people from being able to use them.

These are also the people who will be suing Jet Blue,Airbus,the FAA and the owners of LAX.

[Maceman]

They show live TV on Jetblue?

Those TVs are the reason I always choose Jet Blue whenever it is available. They are great.

[garyhope]

"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.

[Labyrinthos]

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.

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.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Yes they are.

[mewzilla]

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"...

LOL. God bless him. That was a beautiful landing. I wouldn't mind flying with that captain and flight crew :)