The Airplane Selfie King 2014

Would taking a selfie be your top priority if your plane was about to make an emergency landing? It was for one college professor who decided to snap himself and a fellow passenger mid-crisis so it could be left behind for loved ones in case they were killed.

BOSTON (CBS) - A flight from Washington's Dulles Airport to Boston made an emergency landing at a county airport in Delaware, Wednesday morning. According to passengers on the flight, the plane began losing altitude rapidly, the oxygen masks came down and the cabin filled with smoke. Shashi Bellamkonda lives in the Washington, D.C.

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United Flight 3759 from Washington DC to Boston was diverted this morning after smoke started to fill the cabin Passenger Shashi Bellamkonda posted pictures on Twitter from inside the cabin and after the safe landing in Delaware There were 58 people on board in addition to 4 crew members By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 15:39 EST, 29 January 2014 | UPDATED: 07:26 EST, 30 January 2014 A college professor today calmly live tweeted the moment he was told his plane would make an emergency landing and oxygen masks dropped from the cabin roof.

An adjunct professor at Georgetown University took a picture of himself and the man sitting beside him wearing oxygen masks as the cabin on their Mesa Airlines flight filled with smoke on Wednesday.Despite his calm demeanor, Prof. Shashi Bellamkonda said he was nervous when his flight from Washington D.C.

United Airlines flight 3759 was bound for Boston this morning but had to make an emergency landing in Wilmington, Delaware....

Georgetown professor tweets selfie wearing oxygen mask on diverted flight * United Flight 3759 from Washington DC to Boston was diverted this morning after smoke started to fill the cabinPassenger Shashi Bellamkonda posted pictures on Twitter * US * One News Page[US]: Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Read More: No tags for this article United Flight 3759 from Washington DC to Boston was diverted this morning after smoke started to fill the cabin Passenger Shashi Bellamkonda posted pictures on Twitter from inside the cabin and after the safe landing in Delaware By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 15:39 EST, 29 January 2014 | UPDATED: 16:04 EST, 29 January 2014 A morning flight from Washington, DC to Boston had to make an emergency landing in Delaware, but one passenger was so calm he even took a selfie with his seat mate.

Social media has managed to infiltrate every aspect of our lives, so much that at our greatest height of fear, we now turn to our smartphones to shoot numerous selfies and live tweet rather than soil ourselves silly.

I don't know about you, but if I was seated on a plane that suddenly had a cabin filling with smoke, tweeting a selfie would be far down on my airborne to-do list. Not Shashi Bellamkonda. Regular readers of the Washington Business Journal know Bellamkonda as the vice president of digital marketing at Greenbelt-based The Bozzuto Group and occasional WBJ columnist.

BOSTON (CBS) - A flight from Washington's Dulles Airport to Boston made an emergency landing at a county airport in Delaware, Wednesday morning. According to passengers on the flight, the plane began losing altitude rapidly, the oxygen masks came down and the cabin filled with smoke. Shashi Bellamkonda lives in the Washington, D.C.

Instead of screaming, crying, or being paralyzed by vivid flashbacks to the crash scene from Flight, one professor aboard a United flight decided to livetweet when his plane made an emergency landing on Friday. Georgetown University adjuct professor and marketing/social media expert Shashi Bellamkonda was on a flight from Washington D.C.

A Boston bound flight has been diverted to Delaware after a United Express pilot reported smoke present in the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said there were sixty-one passengers and four crew members on board flight 3759 that was diverted to New Castle Airport close to Wilmington, Delaware.

Notlandung per Live-Tweet: Universitätsprofessor Bellamkonda hatte offenbar die Ruhe weg. (Foto: Twitter/shashib) Ein Albtraum wird wahr: der Flug-Kapitän kündigt die Notlandung an. Alle Passagiere sollen Atemmasken aufsetzen. Und was tut ein Universitätsprofessor? Er twittert fleißig Schnappschüsse. Shashi Bellamkonda war auf einem Flug von Washington D.C. nach Boston, als Rauch durch die Lüftungsanlage der Maschine drang.

De professor aan de universiteit van Georgetown nam woensdag een vlucht van Washington naar Boston toen er ineens rook uit het ventilatiekanaal kwam. Kort daarop kwam over de intercom de mededeling dat het vliegtuig Boston niet zou halen en dat het toestel een noodlanding moest maken omdat de cabinedruk was gedaald.

Lembra quando o Sully, aquele Mestre Jedi pousou um A320 no Rio Hudson, e logo depois um sujeito tuitou uma foto? Pois bem, acaba de se tornar algo lento e old news. Durante um incidente em um vôo da United um cidadão tuitou uma foto, enquanto ainda estavam no ar, colocando as máscaras de oxigênio.

Acesta a fost si cazul lui Shashi Bellamkonda, un asistent de la Universitatea Georgetown care, in clipa in care in avionul 3759 care venea dinspre Washington DC a inceput sa intre fumul, de teama ca nu isi va mai vedea niciodata rudele, si-a facut un selfie ca o ultima imagine cu el in viata, scrie Huffington Post.

Acil inişte çek bi selfie Washington'dan Boston'a seyahat eden Georgetown Üniversitesi'nde konuk profesör Shashi Bellamkonda uçuşu esnasında Twitter'dan bir fotoğraf paylaşarak uçağın acil iniş yapmak üzere olduğu notunu paylaştı. Profesör Bellamkonda kabindeki havalandırmalardan duman yayılmaya başladığında uçakta mevcut bulunan 59 yolcudan biriydi.

Notlandung per Live-Tweet: Universitätsprofessor Bellamkonda hatte offenbar die Ruhe weg. (Foto: Twitter/shashib) Ein Albtraum wird wahr: der Flug-Kapitän kündigt die Notlandung an. Alle Passagiere sollen Atemmasken aufsetzen. Und was tut ein Universitätsprofessor? Er twittert fleißig Schnappschüsse. Shashi Bellamkonda war auf einem Flug von Washington D.C. nach Boston, als Rauch durch die Lüftungsanlage der Maschine drang.

Oxygen masks deployed on what was supposed to be a short flight from Dulles to Logan Airport. "Normally, a flight from D.C. to Boston is uneventful but when the oxygen masks start dropping off, suddenly the world is full of good people because no one was panicking and wondering why it dropped," said one passenger.

A United Airlines commuter flight has made an emergency landing at the New Castle Airport in Delaware.

NEW CASTLE, Del. (CBS) - A United Express flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Wilmington Airport early Wednesday morning. At about 10 a.m., a United Express CRJ 700, operated by Mesa Airlines, made an emergency landing following problems with what was first deemed the onboard oxygen generator.