I was riveted to the tellie last night as a JetBlue passenger liner landed at LAX with its nose gear twisted 90 degrees. It was high drama. The pilot did a fantastic job holding the nose high until the plane was going as slow as possible, then letting it settle.
The pilot wasn't the only good decision maker at JetBlue yesterday. The cable news channels that play on the back of each seat on the stricken airliner continued to show live coverage of the event, until the last four or five minutes. It had to be somewhat traumatic to be sitting in the plane and watching those video feeds, but not knowing the scope of the problem would have been much worse.
This news story says that other JetBlue planes in the air carried the coverage of the ailing jet, too.
It's a bold decision to leave the news feeds turned on, and a good one.
