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Annnywaayy, imagine how scared those passengers are right now.

Reference to WTC 9/11.. blah.

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Looks like everyone is safe.  Outstanding job by the pilot.  Her, or she, earned their pay today.

Here's a page with a version of the video that doesn't require you to use Internet Explorer, unlike the NBC clips.

No more than three feet off of the center line of the runway at any time.  I've probably been in worse landings in jets with working landing gear.

Give that pilot a bonus!  He deserves it.

Looked at the clip on MSNBC.  Touched down about five feet to the left, finished almost dead on the centerline.

One of the passengers says it was the smoothest landing he ever experienced.

When looking at the clips, note that the sparks really got heavy when the front gear hit the stripes.  More abrasion from the reflective material, maybe some burning runway paint.

"I've probably been in worse landings in jets with working landing gear."

Yeah, everytime I flew into DIA (Denver).

Even His-honor.  Mayor Vilagrosa showed up at LAX for a bit of face time. Don't like him, but he's dumb on this sort of event and knows when to turn out. Heck he even beat Bratton to the camera...LOL

don't quit your day job.

I flew into Newark once, and the crosswind was so bad, I looked out of the window and could see straight down the center line as we touched down.

We've have some fun at Al Gore's expense recently, here is a story we can all applaud.

Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

The thing I like best about it, is that the former VP didn't send out a press release, didn't toot his own horn, didn't give a speech about it. Kudos.

That pilot did an absolutely amazing job of keeping that aircraft right down the centerline and bleeding off as much speed as possible before setting that nosewheel down - that's some first-rate flying right there.

Airbus aircraft like the A320 use fly-by-wire controls, so I'm not sure how easy it would be to manually fly the aircraft, if that's what the pilot did.

In any event, that pilot showed an amazing level of professionalism and skill that helped save lives.

(And for the uniniated, the subject line is a bit of pilot lingo used to denote amazement and appreciation.)

Wicca is a modern reconstruction of the pre-Christian nature-based religions of Europe.  "There is an exquisite, ecstatic sense of the sacred," said Phyllis Curott, lawyer, author and the priestess of the Temple of Ara. "You literally feel your heart open. Being in the circle is like being in the womb of the great Goddess."

That's exactly how it happened.  It had nothing to do with struts and hydromechanics and pilot skill or dedication and bravery.  It was the Great Goddess.

If I have to hear one more person misuse the word, "literally," my head will explode. Figuratively, that is.

Millions of people were watching and praying.  I took one look at that nose gear and thought the worst.  At a minimum I thought it would give way, and the plane's nose would grind into the tarmac.    

I can't imagine that the landing could be any more text book.  

The question is (and I'm guilty of generalization here):

"Do you fly Jet Blue because of the outstanding ability of their pilots?  Or, do you not fly them because of lapses of mechanical safety?"  

I know some folks who can arrange the "literally" part, if you really want.  Cheap.

"Do you fly Jet Blue because of the outstanding ability of their pilots?  Or, do you not fly them because of lapses of mechanical safety?"

I don't fly Jet Blue because other than yesterday they don't fly into LAX.

He apparently even refused to be interviewed about it.

As much as I dislike him generally, I think Gore deserves a whole lot of credit for taking action.

Of course, there's the cynical side of me that wonders if this is just a sophisticated ploy running up to '08.  We won't know for sure until then.