I flipped back to MSNBC, and now they had Haynes as their on-air expert so I stuck with them through the landing. I wasn't especially worried for the passengers' safety. There have been incidents in the past where an aircraft's nose gear has failed to deploy, and the plane landed successfully. If you watch a plane land you'll notice they land on the main gear anyway, with the nose wheels not touching down until a few seconds later. In this case, it was just a matter of the pilots keeping the nose up off the ground while allowing the plane's speed to bleed off as much as possible before letting the nose gear touch. Given the way the wheels were pointed, I expected the strut to snap off, dropping the plane on its nose, but again that is easily survivable. Also, the weather couldn't have been more perfect. The biggest worry was that something would cause the plane to veer off the runway, in which case all bets were off, but it was very unlikely.
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One other thing to note. JetBlue gives each passenger their own TV set and DirectTV. The crew didn't turn the sets off until they began their appraoch to the runway, so a good chunk of the passengers were watching the commentary while they circled around the city. Some apparently found it unnerving, and many apparently only listened to the worst-case scenarios being spouted by the anchors, and were a tad panicky. I think I would have just been glued to the set, fascinated.