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Sparks and flames erupting from beneath the plane. >> as we came in and the plane finally stopped, there was this moment of almost silence, and then all of a sudden somebody yelled out -- >> right on! >> whoo! >> and then we all just erupted. >> flight 292 jetblue has landed at l.a.x. safely. >> meanwhile barbara is a wreck. >> i wasnt able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial daves phone number. i dialed it a few times. that was the worst ten minutes of the my life because ...

>> people were agitated, and the fellow came on and said, "we believe that we have a malfunction with our landing gear." >> malfunction, not the kind of word a passenger likes to hear. dave snaps to attention and turns on the tv in the seatback in front of him. >> the jetblue airliner the one youre looking at on your screen apparently sent out a distress call. >> so all of a sudden, there is some coverage of a plane in trouble, and im thinking, wow, the poor folks on that plane. >> this plane to...

>> yeah, good job! good job! thank you! as i was exiting the plane, i actually got a wonderful shot of the landing gear completely shaved in half. >> when barbara arrives home that evening, dave shows her the message he taped. >> i love you, and everything is going to be groovy. >> i felt really special, and i understood that he loved me, so i was very thankful to have him sitting there next to me on the couch. whoa! >> two years later in august, 2007, the landing of a china airlines flight in...

>> passengers can no longer see what the television shows. sparks and flames erupting from beneath the plane. >> as we came in and the plane finally stopped, there was this moment of almost silence, and then all of a sudden somebody yelled out -- >> right on! >> whoo! >> and then we all just erupted. >> flight 292 jetblue has landed at l.a.x. safely. >> meanwhile barbara is a wreck. >> i wasnt able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial daves phone number. i dialed it a few ti...

Emergency landing. >> brace, brace, brace. >> a terrified passenger films the entire ordeal and records what could be his final good-byes. >> just thought id leave a message just in case that i love you. >> normally dave is a light-hearted guy, a comedian from southern california. >> you were filling the gas tank you would never leave. >> but on september 21st, 2005, hes in no mood for a long cross-country flight to new york. >> i woke up early and i woke up tired because my girlfriend and i had...

I cant talk now." >> the nightmare flight is over. >> yeah, good job! good job! thank you! as i was exiting the plane, i actually got a wonderful shot of the landing gear completely shaved in half. >> when barbara arrives home that evening, dave shows her the message he taped. >> i love you, and everything is going to be groovy. >> i felt really special, and i understood that he loved me, so i was very thankful to have him sitting there next to me on the couch. whoa! >> two years later in augu...

>> passengers can no longer see what the television shows. sparks and flames erupting from beneath the plane. >> as we came in and the plane finally stopped, there was this moment of almost silence, and then all of a sudden somebody yelled out -- >> right on! >> whoo! >> and then we all just erupted. >> flight 292 jetblue has landed at l.a.x. safely. >> meanwhile barbara is a wreck. >> i wasnt able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial daves phone number. i dialed it a few ti...

Front landing gear just being ripped up by the runway. >> passengers can no longer see what the television shows. sparks and flames erupting from beneath the plane. >> as we came in and the plane finally stopped, there was this moment of almost silence, and then all of a sudden somebody yelled out -- >> right on! >> whoo! >> and then we all just erupted. >> flight 292 jetblue has landed at l.a.x. safely. >> meanwhile barbara is a wreck. >> i wasnt able to get to a television, so the first thing ...

Checklists and are confident we know exactly what the issues are. >> my understanding of what happened the landing gear had a problem when it was retracted, so it got twisted to completely exactly the wrong way. >> the pilot announces theyll fly around to burn off fuel before landing at l.a.x. >> because we were flying around for two hours, we had a lot of time to think about the situation, and i ping-ponged from intellectual reason that this will be okay to emotional panic that the landing gear...

Interrupted by commotion in the cabin. >> people were agitated, and the fellow came on and said, "we believe that we have a malfunction with our landing gear." >> malfunction, not the kind of word a passenger likes to hear. dave snaps to attention and turns on the tv in the seatback in front of him. >> the jetblue airliner the one youre looking at on your screen apparently sent out a distress call. >> so all of a sudden, there is some coverage of a plane in trouble, and im thinking, wow, the poo...