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Watch Your Plane Crash, LIVE

Elster88 Sep 22 2005 03:43 PM

A JetBlue plane had trouble landing today because of faulty landing gear. The plane did land and I don't think anyone was even injured. I find intriguing that in this technological era you can watch your own plane struggle to land, and hear grim reports on the odds of your own survival. Surreal. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050922/ap_on_re_us/airliner_emergency _____________________________ This post had the designation 146) Tsuyoshi Shinjo

holychicken Sep 22 2005 03:59 PM

That is one of those times when I think censorship is completely legitimate. No need for those people to hear the over-dramatized and exaggeration in the media. They should have cut off that channel on the plane.

Edgy DC Sep 22 2005 04:02 PM

I fear that there would have been fataliaties had I been on that flight.

Elster88 Sep 22 2005 04:05 PM

holychicken wrote: That is one of those times when I think censorship is completely legitimate. No need for those people to hear the over-dramatized and exaggeration in the media. They should have cut off that channel on the plane. I don't know how this would've been accomplished though, unless the flight attendants have a switch that shuts down all tv's. I'm guessing the pilots were busy at the time. _____________________________ This post had the designation 146) Tsuyoshi Shinjo

ScarletKnight41 Sep 22 2005 04:07 PM

I can't help thinking of the line from the movie Airplane! ]They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash! Now that I got that out of my system, I can concentrate on the true horror of the situation. Thank G-d everyone survived. What a terrible thing for them to have gone through!

metirish Sep 22 2005 04:19 PM

I watched most of this unfold last night, it was riveting, MSNBC did a great job, Alison Stewart anchored the coverage and was great, remember when she did MTV News?, anyway they had some great guests, one was a pilot that experienced a similar problem in 1999 in Ohio, he predicted that the landing would be fine because the pilots woould be on the phone with jetBlue experts and AirBus experts to go through every senario, it really was amazing, Reality TV in prime time on the east coast, I was jumping up and down when they made that great landing.. Stewart

holychicken Sep 22 2005 04:20 PM

Elster, Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that they somehow screwed up. I am just saying that censorship there makes perfect sense to me.

metsmarathon Sep 22 2005 04:33 PM

i guess it raises the question of wether or not we really need to see people die, LIVE!!!!!

seawolf17 Sep 22 2005 11:04 PM

And once again, JetBlue kicks ASS. Best airline around.

Elster88 Sep 23 2005 09:01 AM

That button between the comma and the question mark on your keyboard is a period. ;)

A Boy Named Seo Sep 23 2005 11:43 AM

"i guess it raises the question of wether or not we really need to see people die, LIVE!!!!!" Our news out here has got to be the worst at that shit. Once I did see a guy die LIVE!!! right in my hood, live via television, thanks the crack camera work of the Action-4 News team. It was another high-speed chase, but this one left the freeway and entered my hood. I called my then-girlfriend to find out where she was and tell her to stay put. I watched the guy zoom and weave through traffic, tailed by a half-dozen cops. There's my old apartment! There's my favorite bar! He pulls into a parking lot and screeches the car to a halt, climbing out and beginning to run almost simultaneously. The cameras zoom in. I can never stomach to watch these things to begin with, but I stuck through this one and paid for it. Not nearly as bad as the guy with the gun who got pumped full of bullets LIVE!!!, each bullet jerking his body and making his shoulders shudder and his arms flail like a marionette. It only took a few seconds for this guy to get riddled with bullets and for the Action News squad correspondent guy to yell at the camera man, "Pull out, pull out!" like he was rooting for his favorite anti-hero in his favorite porn film. The profuse apologies from the network immediately began to flow, tempered with the lame excuse, I mean explanation that their responsibility to deliver this breaking news as it broke sometimes leaves open the possibility that something unpleasant will unfold. Live television is not scripted, you know. It escapes me why the fuck they can't show the same thing on a 10-second delay to make sure some kid (or 30-year old guy!) doesn't see some person get blown away on TV when his 3PM Power Rangers (the kid's, not mine) just got interrupted for a car chase. Oh, yeah, because they'll get scooped by the Super-7 News Crew, or one of the others. It's a gross business, man.