US regional carrier JetBlue had one of their 81 Airbus A320 aircraft experience an undercarriage problem when the nose wheel failed to retract properly on take-off and then had to remain airborne for 3 hours to burn off sufficient fuel for a 'safer' landing
 
The airliner with 146 POB made an emergency landing back at the Los Angeles International Airport with the 90 degree rotated nose-wheel dragging along the runway in a shower of sparks

Despite instructions from flight crew to put their heads down and brace for impact many of the passengers watched live TV coverage of their predicament on 'onboard personal satellite entertainment screens' as the crippled aircraft landed
 
The captain carried out "a perfect full-stall landing in a commercial airliner" maintaining the fiery nose-wheel machine spot-on down the runway centre line - there were no injuries to passengers or crew

A 'mature age' couple and long time residents of Coonabarabran David Knight and his wife Jill onboard their single-engine Beech A36 aircraft were lost when the machine crashed in rough mountainous terrain on a remote Rocky River property south-east of Tenterfield in northern NSW

The six-seater Beech had departed Murwillumbah for Coonabarabran a short time earlier and although the pilot had 45 years' flying experience it would appear from media reports the aircraft may have run into poor visibility from changing weather conditions in what was a private VFR (visual) flight