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Before beginning, I'd like to extend my compliments to the JetBlue pilot last night. He did one fucking outSTANDing job of bringing in that plane, just spectacular. Mad props Buddy, Mad.

So the details are, the front landing gear of a JetBlue plane jammed sideways. The plane was carrying 140 passengers. Apparently the pilot, as I said before, and the staff did an excellent job, and landed the plane with no injuries. What I fail to understand is why precisely were they being exposed to news coverage and general panic reporting by CNN...

It seems completely counterintuitive to expose people in a potentially deadly situation to "extreme" news coverage by media agencies trying to exploit the emergency to gain attention. By most standards you want people calm, and manageable so they will listen to you, maximizing the chances they'll follow instruction and their potential for survival. Flashing up external pictures of the plane and listening to "experts" should be reason for fucking criminal charges of 'undue emotional stress'. You're trapped in a plane, you have to circle for a pretty long time to dump or burn off fuel you don't WANT someone estimating the potential death toll or remembering grisly events of other air accidents. "Yeah I feel horrible for those people TRAPPED up there. Chances are maybe HALF will live...." Omfg, stfu.

The media and telecom industries have to realize they have the potential to manage the last moments of people's lives during an accident like this. If you're in a plane, boat, bus where you have access to live media - be fucking SENSITIVE and put on information to help these people stay together and in control. Keep the cell phone lines clear so people on the planes can get through to their families. Yeah it means some coordination - but hell this didn't happen in minutes... it took a while. Support the living you fucktards, don't be buzzards trying to make a buck off their situation.