re: nevermind

I was in a situation kind of like this. I don't think it was as bad though. Maybe some of the pilots on here can chime in and tell me. But fwiw, I was calm and quite content.

My basic thought was. "I know the pilot can land this plane somehow, and we'll survive, and if not frick it, nothing I can do but try to go out happy."

On approach into Denver captain came on intercom and said we have landing gear failure, and will climb back up to altitude and make circles to burn jet fuel. Once enough fuel has burned out we will attempt a belly landing. If we try belly landing with the fuel on-board we may explode.

We burned fuel for like 45 minutes before they realized it was an instrumentation error, and got the gear down and landed the plane.

Me, my brother, and friends were calm and actually cutting up. My mom, their mom, and others were catatonic, b'c they popped so man xanax they didn't even know they were on a plane at that point. Some guy started handing them out like candy