Jet Blue’s mechanical glitch and
emergency landing
in L.A. close to twenty-four hours ago has re-re-re-played out in both the
footage and the passenger accounts. The flight returned safely despite the
sideways-jammed and intractable landing gear; the culmination was a straight,
frictional grind to a halt. Thereafter, the angle of many of the news reports
has been the visibility of the event as it unfolded on the television monitors
inside the plane. One of Jet Blue’s most prized features is a one-per-seat
television monitor that can tune to a variety of programs, including live
national news broadcasts. Stunning as it must have been, what resulted was
disfiguration of the flash-of-celebrity fan on the Jumbo-tron: "Look, we’re on
TV."
