Did you hear that the Jet Blue passengers were watching MSNBC?

[wndycty]

Jeeze, that would have have been scary as hell.

[AirmensMom]

1. They had the televisions turned off.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Actually, they were watching on the plane.

Howard Averill was on the plane and he is giving personal testimony. He said they realized what was going while they were watching MSNBC. I think he's from NBC himself.

[wndycty]

4. Not the whole time

:kick:

[bettyellen]

6. Link?

:rofl:

[Spinzonner]

2. Not necessarily

Knowing how extensively that the airport was prepared for them and not being shut off from the world could be both a comfort and a distraction from their own thoughts - at least until the actual landing moments.

[bettyellen]

5. the pilot was watching it too... and yes the passenger said

the mSNBC coverage was the first and the best.

[bleever]

7. If I couldn't get my info from KO, I couldn't ask for a better sub

than Alison Stewart.

She was awesomely good under pressure.

[Sydnie]

16. Ahh ... spoken like a true ASTBer!

:hug: :loveya: Bleev!

[bleever]

17. Never been prouder.

:hug: Syd!

[bettyellen]

19. i knew the KOEB would drop by!

:hi:
:loveya:

[bleever]

20. All over this one, BE.

:hi:

:loveya:

And now, I'm ready for a heck of a brownie...

;)

[bettyellen]

22. okay dokey, then you'll find me on saturday,huh?

i'm on step one right now. :D

[bleever]

26. Wish I could join you!

Have an extra good time.

:)

[Clark2008]

21. Of course we'd be here!

Where else would we be!

:hi:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[bettyellen]

23. DC, Saturday? i hope i hope i hope.....

and it's going to be clark in 08, i can smell it.

[Clark2008]

24. Nope... am saving to get married.

Yes - married.

:)

But, I'll certainly go along with your desire and hope and dream for Clark in Oh Eight!! :hug:

[bettyellen]

27. oh wow! congrats, sweetie!

:hug:

[Clark2008]

28. Yeah - he'd marry me tomorrow if we had rings

and the license (which is now $100 in my fundie state because we're not going to go get that Christian marriage thingie and provide proof of counseling. :eyes: If we had that, it would only be about $40 for the license - kind of hard to do since he's Jewish).

[bettyellen]

29. god, that's so unfair.....

who knew, another way we kick back tot he fundies. bleech.
well, screw em, living well is the best revenge.
:D

[mustang]

9. Several passengers reporting the tv's were On until 5:30 pst

Two passengers interviewed both stated that the Direct TV's were left on and passengers were getting info from MSNBC, although the pilots were informative as well. They also reported that some passengers took off their headphones and turned off their tv's because it was too hard to watch.

I have flown Jet Blue. It's a great airline. Each seat has a TV in front of the seat and access to at least 25 channels from Direct TV. It really makes the flight nice.

[Zynx]

8. Thank God they're safe.

[truebrit71]

10. That pilot did an outstanding job.

Simply marvellous, well controlled and text-book..

[Zynx]

11. The pilot must have really been cool under pressure.

If he had panicked, it could have all ended badly. People do stupid things in a panic.

[RC]

14. So tell those of us with out tv how they got down.

[crispini]

15. They just landed.

Looked like a nice smooth normal landing except for the BRIGHT ORANGE FLAMES that came out as the front landing gear tires burned off.

[Nickster]

30. It was really amazing. I just finished my last final for the week and

walked out to see the landing on CNN. The pilot landed it nice and easy. I would have kissed him if I was on that flight.

[RayOfHope]

12. LOL! Larry King said they were watching CNN. Sure, Larry n/t

[Penguin31]

18. jetBlue doesn't carry CNN

Headline News, Faux News channel, MSNBC:
http://www.jetblue.com/havefun/directv/guide/channels.html

[TwilightZone]

25. No, he didn't. He asked one of the panelists if the passengers would

be watching CNN. The panelist said "no" and said that the TVs would be off during the landing.

[AirmensMom]

13. Well that's strange because

someone reported (CNN or MSNBC -- we were switching back & forth) that the TVs were off. But they also reported at one point that the plane was dumping fuel. Never can tell what the real story is.

[question everything]

31. Some were watching the Daily Show

Some passengers switched channels on their seat monitors and followed their own flight on cable news stations. "That just freaked everybody out," said Zachary Mastoon, a 37-year-old musician returning home to New York.

"It was very scary," he said, added that he changed the channel to "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. "It just made the situation worse, because we only knew so much."


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