Jet Blue Flight #291 is minutes away from making an emergency landing at LAX due to malfunctioning landing gear.

The plane took off at 3:17PM from Burbank en route to New York's JFK Int'l when the nose landing gear turned 90 degrees to the left. It was decided that an emergency landing would be necessary. he craft is unable to jettison fuel, so the pilot has been flying around at low altitude with high drag for over three hours, trying to burn off over 30000 lbs. of jet fuel, enough to fly to New York.

The risk to the passengers is minimal, so I don't feel too overly bad when I admit that I'm mostly worried about my commute to go pick up a friend at LAX tonight.

UPDATE: That was spectacular.

The plane landedsafely. The nose gear skidded and sparked, but never collapsed. Other than what must have been unimaginable noise and shaking, the landing must have seemed damn near typical from on board.