Passengers Suffer Meta-Media-Meltdown on Stricken Plane
CNN:
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television.While satellite TV sets aboard JetBlue Flight 292 were tuned to news broadcasts, some passengers cried. Others tried to telephone relatives and one woman sent a text message to her mother in Florida attempting to comfort her in the event she died.
“It was very weird. It would’ve been so much calmer without” the televisions, Pia Varma of Los Angeles said after the plane skidded to a safe landing Wednesday evening in a stream of sparks and burning tires. No one was hurt.
Funny: I thought TV sets in airplanes had “off” buttons.
Would you have really been able to make yourself turn it off?
Wharman
22 Sep 05 at 9:11 am
Yes, Wendy. Yes! (I think.)
Newley
22 Sep 05 at 9:30 am