Samurai Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 A passenger jet with 145 people on board is making an emergency landing in Los Angeles after it developed a problem with its landing gear.The JetBlue flight 292 was bound for New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, from Burbank, California."Shortly after the plane took off, the pilot discovered that he may have a landing gear problem," Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker said.Before making the landing the pilot dumped fuel over the sea.Television images showed the Airbus 320 circling with the front landing gear turned at a 90 degree angle from its normal position.It's on all major news channels right now. Scary stuff!!! :)Flames shoot off the front landing gear as the aircraft lands on the runway.The front wheels of the plane are jammed sideways, as seen in this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 Update: Apparently this model number of plane includes TV's on all passenger seats so they could be watching this live :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai Posted September 22, 2005 Author Share Posted September 22, 2005 Update: Successful landing. The landing gear was 90 degrees from it's normal position. Excelent piloting from the cabin crew.Wow, I can't believe I just witnessed this LIVE on air.So glad that everyone is safe and well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Update: Successful landing. The landing gear was 90 degrees from it's normal position. Excelent piloting from the cabin crew.Wow, I can't believe I just witnessed this LIVE on air.So glad that everyone is safe and well!dont you love american news media. i was watching "lost" so didnt hear about it. i check cnn and fox news nothing but rita hurricane. and yahoo.com usa side nothing. american news fast and sweet on to the next story.edityahoo updated to this http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...liner_emergencyedit oh you should see the live car chases on news tv. better then oj's one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erRor67 Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Yeah, i noticed this on like alll the channels. Wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Update: Apparently this model number of plane includes TV's on all passenger seats so they could be watching this live :)oh since the airplane is landing those tvs are turn off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 That was quite a good balancing act by the pilot....Kudos to him... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 All the people in the airplane were like "OMG its us!!!" so the crew had an extra job of calming the people down because of seeing themselves on tv with broken landing gear. It so happens that JetBlue has had another incident like this. It makes you wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudeboy2025 Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 I saw it live on TV too. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos17 Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 i saw a documentary in national geographic and they said they the plane comapnies don't pay enough money for safety that they prefer not to pay so much money.they say for example a couple of plane crashes with a couple of hundred ppl die every yr is no big problem comapred to the money.i only wish that the planes become more advance safer with less crashes coz i would not like to be in a plane and crash and die.hopefully the plane companies and airports change there attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 i saw a documentary in national geographic and they said they the plane comapnies don't pay enough money for safety that they prefer not to pay so much money.they say for example a couple of plane crashes with a couple of hundred ppl die every yr is no big problem comapred to the money.i only wish that the planes become more advance safer with less crashes coz i would not like to be in a plane and crash and die.hopefully the plane companies and airports change there attitude.lucky in the usa they do pay for maintances. btw this airbus serie had 7 other reports of twisted landing gear when trying to pull them up after takeoff. so it looks like a french airbus defect. got to love socialism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted September 27, 2005 Administrator Share Posted September 27, 2005 WTF BB? The french society is one based on Democracy. We had this debate previously, please find it.Everyone pays for plane mentainance, not just US companies..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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