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JetBlue Flight 292

aviation incident

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1707895 ↗
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JetBlue Flight 292 was a scheduled flight from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On September 21, 2005, Captain Scott Burke executed an emergency landing in the Airbus A320 at Los Angeles International Airport after the nose gear jammed in an abnormal position. No one was injured.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was an Airbus A320-232, registered as N536JB with serial number 1784. It was manufactured by Airbus Industrie in 2002 and had logged 14227 airframe hours. It was powered by two IAE V2527-A5 engines.

Incident

The captain was 46-year-old Scott Burke, with 10,829 total flight hours, 2,552 of which were on the Airbus A320. The first officer was 37-year-old David Razler, who out of 5,732 total flight hours had an estimated 1,284 hours on the Airbus A320.

Carrying 140 passengers and six crew, the Airbus A320-232 departed Burbank at 3:17 p.m. PDT (UTC−07:00).

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 1784, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, JetBlue, Flight and aviation is the immediate research focus.
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