(As wondered in comments yesterday by John Gibson)
Why, yes they were.
LOS ANGELES – The airliner circled Southern California for hours, crippled by a faulty landing gear, while inside its cabin 140 passengers watched their own life-and-death drama unfolding on live television. [full story]
I was told they were made to shut the tv off after an hour.
I can’t decide whether that’s unspeakably cruel or unspeakably cool.
It says in the story that they were able to watch coverage until just a few minutes before landing.