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I watched this live on television during dialysis yesterday afternoon:
JetBlue Passengers Watched News of DramaIt looked like it was going to be another Irwin Allen disaster on live television, but it wasn't.
LOS ANGELES - A JetBlue airliner with faulty landing gear touched down safely Wednesday evening at Los Angeles International Airport after circling the region for three hours with its front wheels turned sideways and unable to retract into the plane.
The safe landing was made at an auxiliary runway set apart from the main terminals. The pilot landed using the back wheels first and then eased onto the front tires, which smoked, popped and sparked on contact.
Emergency crews from across the area massed near the runway, ready to help the 139 passengers and six crew members.
And this isn't the first time that an Airbus 320 has had problems with its nose landing gear....kind of makes you want to fly a Boeing aircraft instead.
Just not the MD 30 which is maybe the loudest airplane I've ever been in. And that was in first
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Just not the MD 30 which is maybe the loudest airplane I've ever been in. And that was in first class. Coach must have been horrid.
|| Posted by Cait, September 22, 2005 10:12 AM ||