And now, for something completely different -

[kyburg]

I came in to work this morning to hear the boss' dulcet tones discussing just how much emergency response was sent to LAX last night. Since he's so closely tied to the emergency services here in town (CERT being the least of them, he's on the ham radio community response team among other things) - he had a list of services responding to LAX last night, down to the individual services, battalions, search and rescue units, boats, helicopters...it made one want to add "and a partridge in a pear tree" to it.

Why? Jet Blue has one helluva pilot working for them.

There's even video of it.

Me? Wasn't watching television. I think at 6:19, I was eating dinner and playing on the Mac.

Wow.

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[snobahr.livejournal.com]

I was on the computer at the time - my mom-in-law was watching it.

I just saw the video (the link you provided), and part of me is very entertained that the plane stopped at the end of the white line. Not that line specifically, but that it was at the end of the marker line, rather than in the middle or a bit off...

But that was a damned fine landing.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

joedecker heard that when someone congratulated the pilot as having nailed the center of the runway, he dismissed it, saying he was at least six inches off center.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

The article I read elsewhere said the pilot was joking when he said that, but still. Ballsy.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We don't have TV here, but I was paying attention via disasterporn, whose denizens were a bit disappointed in the "anti-climactic" landing.

That pilot deserves some sort of . . . something. That was brilliant.

we were impressed

[bluemoonpnw.livejournal.com]

I think it was Pancho Barnes who said something like
"...Some peckerwood has to bring it down, and that peckerwood
is called a Pi-lot."
That is a helluva Pi-lot that made that landing.
Moon

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

I had just switch to a channel that was showing it, a minute or two before the landing.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

You may well be the only person in America who wasn't watching it live ;)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Anyone got a name for this guy?

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, though I doubt this will shock you, she wasn't. I only heard about it later.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Ballsy pilot, that's for sure. Makes me kind of glad I fly JetBlue whenever possible. I did it for the comfy seats and good service, and I've never had so much as a rough bump onlanding with them. But now I've got another reason.

[catsonmars.livejournal.com]

I called you while that was going on, but you didn't pick up. My mom called me, so long story short, I watched it live on streaming video as it happened.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I saw that; I need a phone that rings loud enough to hear it. Honestly.