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Burbank, california, the crew of jetblue flight 292 discovers a problem and prepares for an 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-countr...

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 i did was dial daves phone num...

But just the fact that im considering what position do i want to crash in, was very scary for me. >> luckily, barbara is spared the horror of watching the ordeal on live television, but the news manages to reach her. >> i made a phone call to a friend of mine, and he abruptly tells me he doesnt have time to talk to me because hes busy watching this plane story on the television, and then i realize that that was the plane that dave was on. >> jetblue flight 292 is getting ready to land. >> flight...

[ applause ] and i just thought, are you on that plane? and he says "yes, im on the plane. ill tell you all about it, but 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...

[ applause ] and i just thought, are you on that plane? and he says "yes, im on the plane. ill tell you all about it, but 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...

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 i had no idea what was going on....

Friend of mine, and he abruptly tells me he doesnt have time to talk to me because hes busy watching this plane story on the television, and then i realize that that was the plane that dave was on. >> jetblue flight 292 is getting ready to land. >> flight 292 on its final approach for an emergency landing. >> the moment is horrifying for those watching live. but nothing compares to the terror on board. >> brace, brace, brace! >> as were coming in and theyre yelling "brace, brace, brace!" >> brac...

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 took off from burbank airport, shortly after 3:00 p.m. it was he...

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 is twisted and the plane is going to crash and this is it. this is it. theres a decent chance im going to die. >> dave begins...

I know now that that was the 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 te...