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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 wasn't able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial dave's 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. >> at last barbara's call goes through just as the plane grinds to a stop. >> he picks up the pho...

Friend of mine, and he abruptly tells me he doesn't have time to talk to me because he's 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 we're coming in and they're yelling "brace, brace, brace!" >> brace, brace, brace! >> it seemed like it went on forever, like when are we going to touch down? [ b...

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 you're 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 i'm thinking, wow, the poor folks on that plane. >> this plane took off from burbank airport, shortly after 3:00 p.m. it was headed for john f. kennedy international airport. >> and then, of course, i realize, that's the plan...

Problem when it was retracted, so it got twisted to completely exactly the wrong way. >> the pilot announces they'll 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. there's a decent chance i'm going to die. >> dave begins to think about his girlfriend barbara and the unpleasant way they parted. >> i thought how awful...

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 wasn't able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial dave's phone number. i dialed it a few times. that was ...