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Pilot does ‘perfect’ job at JFK after nose-gear failure has passengers brace for crash landing. A pilot, and his crew, were flying a passenger plane from Rio de Janeiro to New York. When they were putting out their landing gear they realized the nose gear was turned ninty degrees. The crew and its passengers prepared for crash landing. A passenger said, “The captain kept saying,’Be calm, keep calm. We know what we’re doing.'” Though, once they reached fifty feet above the runway, the nose wheel miraculously turned and they landed safe as they would have before. Some are calling it a freak accident others are making it out as if the hand of God turned the wheel. In my opinion, I honestly believe that somebody on the plane was praying really hard and God answered their prayer to save everybody on that plane. It wasn’t their time in God’s plan. I would have been extremely nervous though. I mean that is a very large aircraft and if I thought it wasn’t going to make it to the runway I would have been really nervous. I would have done my best to be calm enough to keep the others calm but I definitely would have been really nervous! This sort of reminds me of that old guy that put the plane in the Hudson river a few years ago. Like he just had the idea pop into his head to land the plane in the river.