On September 22, 2005, Manning discussed her experience as one of 140 passengers on JetBlue Airways Flight 292, which performed an emergency landing with faulty landing gear. Speaking as a guest on Craig Ferguson's late night talk show, she explained, "When we saw our plane on TV as 'breaking news'... it was the most surreal, out of body experience I ever had. I just composed a little something so that if anything happened, family members would know that our last goodbye wasn't on the phone. A lot of the women of course were crying. There was a gentleman across the way who was writing in his journal and crying, and seeing that isn't easy". Upon landing safely, she described the atmosphere of jubilant cheering and applause inside the airplane, "It sounded like the RCA Dome in there". Landing gear failures, especially a known nose gear condition, in which the crew is prepared, is rarely serious to the passenger and crews safety, but aircraft damage can be extensive.