Jetblue pilots show that a $110k pilot...

[turbodriver]

The sad part is, things have gotten so bad in this country, when someone actually does their job it makes the six o'clock news.

Well, you and everyone else who thinks like you helped put this corrupt admin. into office. You made yoru bed now sleep in it.

 

[humveedriver]

Can someone here explain to me why the pilots of this JetBlue A/C recently in the news should be inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame? I caught a very small snippet of what happened on the news, and all I saw were sparks coming from the nose and the actor I mean "newsman", talking about nosegear problems. I think I must be missing something. I would expect any fellow 121 brother to be able to pull that off. What made this so special? If I were are going to talk about future airline wages and feats of airmanship why not talk about Al Haynes approach in his DC-10. That was impressive. I'm sure someone here can enlighten me.

 

[nwaredtail]

Sure hope our Jet blue Heroes didn't cycle that nose wheel steering switch without the gear up and locked. There is an Airbus warning about doing that while airborne to fix landing gear problems. Cycling that switch airborne (we do it alot on the ground) may and has resulted in the nose gear fully deflecting to the mechanical stop. (can't be centered airborne) With no hydraulic problems noted, interested to see the NTSB REPORT>>>>

 

[tricky]

Who cares what your paid, you still should land the plane the same. But ALPA sucks AS$ and we all will be landings planes for $7.00 an HR some day lets begin to live with it until were all willing to make changes. ALPA is at the bottom.....

 

[FN FAL]

Well, you and everyone else who thinks like you helped put this corrupt admin. into office. You made yoru bed now sleep in it.

well alrighty then.

 

[SWAdude]

Can someone here explain to me why the pilots of this JetBlue A/C recently in the news should be inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame? I caught a very small snippet of what happened on the news, and all I saw were sparks coming from the nose and the actor I mean "newsman", talking about nose-gear problems. I think I must be missing something. I would expect any fellow 121 brother to be able to pull that off. What made this so special? If I were are going to talk about future airline wages and feats of airmanship why not talk about Al Haynes approach in his DC-10. That was impressive. I'm sure someone here can enlighten me.

I must admit I agree. We do many more equally admirable displays of our skills with much less time to make the right decision on a semi regular basis. I am thankful for the news coverage to show the public the level of our skill that is usually not seen by anyone but us up front. I'm sure that all of us have been approached by friends/family about this incident and that is exactly what I have been sharing with them.

I do congratulate the crew of jetBlue for doing a good job. Most of if not all of us would have done the same thing. Southwest had a main gear stuck in the well back in 95 or 96 and did a safe landing in ONT. A much more challenging situation. The only difference was that they didn't need to burn fuel for over three hours for the news crews to cover the event. America West I understand had this same problem with the nose gear on a 320 some years back I believe in Columbus. I bet no one heard of this incident.

Al Haynes is the hero none of us question though.

 

[dojetdriver]

Hey, I did watch the landing on the news and I thought they did a great job. Those Airbus planes are pretty sturdy....atleast that nose gear strut is. Good job though guys...

Bye Bye--General Lee

I don't know, I mean, it looked like he could have done a better job. When they stopped rolling he looked to be about a foot of centeline. He probably could have done a better. Where do they find these guys?

Seriously, good job on the crews part.

I'm sure they knew, as any well trained professionals would (regardless of pay) that they would come through OK. It would be slightly nerve racking to have to wait a few hours burning fuel to get the whole affair over with.

 

[Hobiehawker]

I must admit I agree. We do many more equally admirable displays of our skills with much less time to make the right decision on a semi regular basis. I am thankful for the news coverage to show the public the level of our skill that is usually not seen by anyone but us up front. I'm sure that all of us have been approached by friends/family about this incident and that is exactly what I have been sharing with them.

I do congratulate the crew of jetBlue for doing a good job. Most of if not all of us would have done the same thing. Southwest had a main gear stuck in the well back in 95 or 96 and did a safe landing in ONT. A much more challenging situation. The only difference was that they didn't need to burn fuel for over three hours for the news crews to cover the event. America West I understand had this same problem with the nose gear on a 320 some years back I believe in Columbus. I bet no one heard of this incident.

Al Hayes is the hero none of us question though.

Very well said swadude. I agree completely.

 

[pilotyip]

Pay not a factor

Pay has nothing to do with skill. Read the tales of the B-17 pilots, high school grads, over Germany in WWII. They brought back airplanes that were scrap metal and safely got their crews on the ground. They did this for what would be in today's wages of around $35K.

 

[Texasskicker]

Comply with crew commands

The procedure is to turn off the LiveTV (via switch, not c/b's) prior to the emergency landing to assure the passengers comply with crew commands. As for the crew, only security cameras and The Weather Channel (sans sound) are displayed in the cockpit.

As for the transcon turns...care to guess who is in charge of the Alertness Management Program?

Failure to comply with crew commands is a Federal offense.

Do you think the schmo that used his camcorder during the emergency landing as broadcast on PMSNBC last night shows there was a problem with compliance on that Jetblue flight? Or, did the passenger know he was exempt from this rule becuase he was an employee of NBC? Hmmm......

Sorry, but this event has my BP up today. Maybe the crew was a little too easy going and jovial. Maybe this particular passenger got the impression he could get away with having his portable electronic device in his hand and rolling during one of the most critical moments in aviation and brodcast TV history. Who knows?