I turned on the news to see what was up with Hurricane Rita just as another story was breaking: The JetBlue airliner that had to make an emergency landing at LAX with its front landing gear wheels turned sideways…
It all ended well but it was startling to be sitting here, watching it via a perfect helicopter shot, aware that we might be about to see a plane crash live on television. JetBlue makes live DirecTV broadcasts available to its passengers. Apparently, the pilots turned it off for the landing but if they hadn't, those people could have been watching the shot of their own plane's landing gear burning up. It was more suspenseful when it was live, of course, but also when it was preceded by long minutes of the Airbus making its approach.
Nice to see some good news on TV for a change. Hope it isn't too bad for those in the path of Rita.