Slog - Comments on Flight 83 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83 When I read about those Jet Blue passengers who got to watch their own emergency landing live on in-flight television, I thought it sounded like the scariest thing in the world. Then, last night, I was flying home from New York to Seattle on Jet Blue flight 83, when what should come on my live in-flight television screen but... Flight 93, A&E's dramatic recreation of the last hours of one of the hijacked passenger jets on Sept. 11. "I can't believe they're showing this on a plane," a woman seated in my row said. I looked around. Everyone else seemed... Copyright 2007 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:30:46 -0800 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:05:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Napoleon XIII If it takes my attention away from the demon ripping apart the jet engine, I'm for it, I guess. :-\

]]> Napoleon XIII http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013649 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013649 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:33:39 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Eli, you deserve some sort of medal for bravery (and possibly masochism) for this...

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013651 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:37:21 -0800 Comment by Otter That's intense, Eli.

I once tried to have a conversation about the movie Almost Famous, but I must have missed a vital scene. I watched it from beginning to end on a plane, sober. Then we realized that it was the plane crash scene, which must have been edited out.

What's you view on censorship now?

]]> Otter http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013656 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 12:44:21 -0800 Comment by Napoleon XIII Don't worry about highjacking, stabbing, wild-flying, thousand foot dives, and desperate passengers, Eli.

Worry about Airbus rudders. . .

http://www.freeadvice.ca/wp-images/rudder.jpg

]]> Napoleon XIII http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013669 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:14:27 -0800 Comment by Napoleon XIII Oops.

http://www.airdisaster.com/forums/showpost.php?p=309023&postcount=17

]]> Napoleon XIII http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013670 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013670 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:15:48 -0800 Comment by visitor I thought it was found to be a false truth about passengers crashing the plane themselves. Didn't the air force shoot it down?

]]> visitor http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013683 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013683 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:38:57 -0800 Comment by Amy Jo I heard that airlines didn't show movies about airplane disasters. I never checked it out, but I know I've never seen an airplane disaster movie on a flight. Do you think the terrorism had something to do with allowing this? Or was what I heard an urban legend? I would be mortified to see that. Or to see "Titanic" on a cruise.

]]> Amy Jo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013684 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013684 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:41:12 -0800 Comment by mikeoutwest True story: my brother-in-law was on a flight from Paris to Boston and their landing was delayed by weather when they arrived. So as they're circling above the airport for quite some time, the bright attendants decide to show a National Geographic special that prominently featured planes being hit by lightening! He said everyone just starting looking around like, "What the fuck, are they really showing this?" Suddenly, the video went out and the lights blinked and a few people screamed. Then the captain came on and said, "We've been cleared for landing, please blahblahblah." Second scariest moment of his life.

]]> mikeoutwest http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013695 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:09:26 -0800 Comment by Colin I was on a flight somewhere watching A&E or Discovery channel or somesuch special about plane crashes. Made a lot of jokes with my father. We used to make jack-screw jokes on Alaska flights. Just remember, it's the jack-screw if the plane suddenly pulls up, then tilts forward and turns to the side. Then it's a nosedive into the ground.

Also: In my mind, the most terrifying thing about plane crashes is that for so many seconds, perhaps even a minute, you know you are going to die... and that is all the time you have to think about it. That is terrifying.

]]> Colin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013727 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:11:16 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Officially, airlines won't choose aircrash movies for the in-flight feature, but JetBlue doesn't show movies. It has TVs with real time broadcasts. I guess A&E is one of the channels and JetBlue didn't bother blocking it out during the Flight 93 TV movie.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/flight_83#c013766 Arts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:05:55 -0800