How 'bout that landing??? BRAVO!!!!!!!!!! Had my heart in my mouth for sure. Wait until the passengers see the landing on TV. I bet they'll all be shaking their heads in disbelief.

Yea! I just saw the short version on a news break, unreal, scarey and all are okay!

That was the scariest most intense moment I can remember. And I was just watching it on the news, think about how the passengers are feeling. Glad everything turned out alright.

That was a really fine job landing the plane without snapping off the gear -- now it's the only thing they have to replace! :)

It's awesome, he keeps it on the center line the entire time...great job by the pilot.

I watched the whole thing very nervously. The landing was a thing of beauty. Perfect!!! Many of the passengers watched the story on monitors on their seatbacks! Jet Blue has DirctTV, over a hundred channels installed on ALL seats. It's all one class. No first and second class. Everyone gets to watch "The Tube". Anyway, I'm sure glad no one was hurt!

Yeah, the passengers said they got more info about themselves from the back of their TV headrests, than they did from the plane crew, lol. Surreal. I was watchin' it live, my buddy was tivo-ing it. Glad to see it all work out so nicely! AS

Don't show this to Ang! She'll never fly again!

Umm Yeah, I heard about it while they were still circling and I really felt for them. I know that when I fly I am always thinking about how terrifying if must be when something is going wrong and all you can do is sit there. I did not watch, there was no way I could have. I'm so glad that they landed safely. Its a miracle as far as I'm concerned and yeah Chris, I may not be getting on a plane again, lol. Ang but there were three major airline crashes in the month leading up to my flight, so I guess I could do it again if I had to.

I sent a message to my brother asking him how hard it is to land a plane like that (he flies b737s). wonder what he'll have to say :) drac (if you guys only knew the number of problems that show up every other day in a plane you'd never fly again)

reminds me of that web site for pilot humor: after a rough landing, most of the people got off without incident, except some little old lady, who approached the pilot and asked " Did we land, or were we shot down?"..;) probably felt like that to some..glad everyone's ok.

I was never really afraid of flying until I flew with my children. Its one thing to be cavalier about you own safety, but add the lives of your kids, and well... Hats off to the pilot.

I leave from JFK tomorrow to LAX on jetblue...wish me luck!

Good luck Max. Why you leaving NY I thought you just got back.

Ask for the same pilot. He was awesome. ;)

I'm going to my grandma's for her 80th birthday, just over the weekend. She has cancer and no one knows how many more birthdays she is going to get, so I agreed to come out. We're having a lot of people over, probably the biggest family reunion in a long time.

MadMax: Before you get on the plane...make sure the wheels are all facing the same way....... BTW you get brownie points for #1 Visiting your Grandma #2 Having the guts to get on the same airline #3 Suffering a family reunion (we all know how traumatic that can be) Goodluck and our best wishes to your Gran!

LOL On a more serious note: Hats off for the pilots, that was some outstanding work in a emergency like this.

Sick puppy B;)

I was home sick when this was going on. Watched the whole thing and also turned on my Scanner and caught the Pilots conversation with the Tower (though I was only pickin up the Pilots side of the discussion.) Lasted about 20 mins. A couple things from what i heard I thought were funny: He said to the person he was talking to that he/she would "Owe me a beer after this one". Another line he said "If you want to trade places it would be fine with me" And the one that I have also heard on the news.. when talking about the media: "You going to have someone there to keep the media wolves off my back after all this? I have nothing to say about it" The pilot seemed very calm, infact, like this was a normal day for him. Impressive dude! lol.

The training that a major puts its pilots through (both initial and recurrent) almost makes this look like a walk in the park sometimes. The gear manufacturer designs and tests its gear for all sorts of potential issues of which this is one. Of course they try to make sure it will never happen but a good designer also does what they can for even that improbable "what if". The real eye opener for me was the inability to dump fuel! Having to cruise for several hours...

All that aside, the crew did a very good job of that landing!

Dump fuel? Probably too much of an environmental hazard.

Well, no short range aircraft (A320, as well as 737, 757 and MD80) has fuel dump installed, thats a feature only used on long range crafts, with a big different between max takeoff weight and max allowed landing weight. Something like a A320 has such a low fuel capacity compared to its landing weight, that it simply don't need to dump the fuel. And it is a FAA regulation as far as i know. As for the landing gear, during strut overhauls, the centering mechanism which is designed to keep the nose wheels straight when the strut is fully extended is getting installed 90 degrees off by mistake. So it's not a design flaw (other than possibly making it idiot proof, but nothing is fool-proof to a talented fool), it's a RTFM issue. Airbus has issued several changes to the maintenance manuals and such. Outsourced maintenance. That's where the danger comes from, outsourcing maintenance, cutting corners to reduce operational costs is a major cause of aircraft incidents and chrashes, the other major cause is that a lot of pilots lack basic english, wich causes confusions, mistakes often with fatal results like in the Helios crash this summer, the pilots did simply not understand the warnings that plane gave when the pressure failed.

My area of the FARs are 27 and 29. Not that familiar with 25. Thanks for the clarifications. Talented fools, yup, have met some of those!

We have a saying in our family. "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.."