Rumor: Another JBLU Nosewheel problem??

[Texasskicker]

Overheard some line guys sayin they heard about another nosewheel problem with JBLU today. Any truth to this rumor?

 

[Texasskicker]

found it

JetBlue Makes Emergency Landing In Long Beach

JetBlue Makes Emergency Landing In Long Beach(CBS) Long Beach, Calif. A JetBlue airliner bound for New York made an emergency landing today at Long Beach Municipal Airport after a warning light indicated a problem, authorities said.

The aircraft, with at least 100 passengers on board, circled over the ocean for two hours, burning off fuel, before landing safely in Long Beach, from where it had taken off, according to an airport spokesperson.

The plane arrived at the airport around 12:45 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Long Beach Fire Dept.

It was determined that there was no problem with the aircraft, other than an apparent malfunction of the warning light.



(© MMV, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

 

[PacoPollo]

Hopefully they ground the entire fleet for a while...
Safety first!

 

[usav8r]

Hopefully they ground the entire fleet for a while...
Safety first!

Yeah, just like US Air and United after the rudder problems on the 737. Another quality positive post by Paco.

 

[B6Driver]

Hopefully they ground the entire fleet for a while...
Safety first!

What a "Stupid" comment.

 

[Jetz]

Details?

Any more details available?

 

[aa73]

What a "Stupid" comment.

Get used to it, ol Paco's got a very distinguished record of informative, intelligent posts.

 

[Texasskicker]

what no media circus?

Were all the media hawks circling the kill this time? Where is all the attention grandstanding and pats on back. Did the entertainment systems work. More problems with the french jet. No video from those scared to death. Im disappointed. Oh yea, thats right sweeps was last month.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

jblue should just install a ski conversion on the front

 

[DiverDriver]

Anybody got a link to the SNL skit done making fun of that coverage? That was some funny stuff.

 

[HAL]

To try and bring this discussion back in line - I was landing at SNA last night (late Saturday evening) and heard a Jetblue out of LGB declare another emergency. All we got was that they wanted to go over the ocean for a while, and hadn't told the controller what the problem was when we switched over to the SNA tower. They didn't know anything either. Any word from all you JB people?

HAL

 

[KC-10 Driver]

Quote:
Anybody got a link to the SNL skit done making fun of that coverage? That was some funny stuff.

Here you go:

http://media.vmsnews.com/MonitoringR...83/I000388046/

 

[clickclickboom]

that link doesnt work anybody else?

anybody anybody bueller?

 

[Texasskicker]

Another one

To try and bring this discussion back in line - I was landing at SNA last night (late Saturday evening) and heard a Jetblue out of LGB declare another emergency. All we got was that they wanted to go over the ocean for a while, and hadn't told the controller what the problem was when we switched over to the SNA tower. They didn't know anything either. Any word from all you JB people?

HAL

Another emergency landing huh? Call out the national media, we got a big fish story here! Helloo...any takers out there? Not interested cause its not Bush's fault.

 

[KC-10 Driver]

Oops - looks like the link expired. Sorry, don't have another one.

 

[Safetycheck]

JetBlue Problem Confined to Warning Light
Sunday, December 4, 2005 [FONT=Verdana, Times New Roman, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Los Angeles Times[/FONT]


A JetBlue airliner circled the ocean for more than two hours and then returned to the Long Beach Municipal Airport in Southern California early Saturday after a warning light erroneously indicated a problem with the landing gear.
The warning light came on shortly after New York-bound Flight 216 took off from Long Beach about 10 p.m. Friday, a JetBlue spokeswoman said.
The captain reset the system and the light went out, spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said, but he decided to burn enough fuel to land in Long Beach and have the problem checked out in the interest of safety. The Airbus 320 had 146 passengers and six crew members aboard.
Inspection of the plane indicated nothing wrong, but it remained on the ground Saturday and will undergo further examination, Dervin said. The aircraft is the same model as another JetBlue plane that made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport in September when its nose landing gear locked askew on takeoff from Burbank, northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
The airline offered the Long Beach passengers overnight accommodations at nearby hotels and resumed the flight around 8 a.m. Saturday morning using another plane, Dervin said.
Late last month, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of 200 Airbus planes in response to the Sept. 21 incident, in which JetBlue Flight 292 made an emergency landing with its nose wheel stuck down and sideways. “This was just a faulty indicator light,” Dervin said of Saturday’s incident, and not a problem with the landing gear itself.

 

[Texasskicker]

Lol

http://www.overlawyered.com/2005/09/jetblue_emergency_landing.html

 

[sf260pilot]

Why would they not go east and burn off the fuel enroute to the base at JFK and get the pax to the destination, or at least closer to it?

 

[PacoPollo]

Why would they not go east and burn off the fuel enroute to the base at JFK and get the pax to the destination, or at least closer to it?

Cuz that doent fit their business model

 

[Booster]

Spare aircraft at LGB. Hotel contracts in place at LGB.