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That reminds me about that one JetBlue emergency landing where passengers could watch their own plane attempt a landing.

IIRC, the flight attendants disabled the system right at landing to prevent presumed panic. That decisions amusing to me since there’s a 15-30 second delay with satellite TV anyway. I can’t imagine there was a true opportunity for passengers to see anything scary in this scenario.



There's an informative video on YouTube about that JetBlue incident and the (successful) attempt to recover from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpsgn9LM0G8

Reading your comment, my flippantly ironic thought was that it's just as well real life isn't delayed from the satellite TV; that could really cause some panic in the cabin!




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