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Old 01-15-2009, 05:56 PM   #1
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All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

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NEW YORK – A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank, authorities say.
There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C., when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.
The plane, an Airbus 320, took off at 3:26 p.m. and went down minutes later, Brown said.
"There were eyewitness reports the plane may have flown into a flock of birds," Brown said. She added, "Right now we don't have any indication this was anything other than an accident."
Doug Church, spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, said that the pilot reported a "double bird strike" about 30 to 45 seconds after takeoff and said he needed to return to LaGuardia.
The controller instructed the pilot to divert to an airport in Teterboro, N.J., for an emergency landing, Church said.
The plane was submerged in the icy waters up to the windows when rescuers in Coast Guard vessels and ferry boats arrived, opened the door and pulled passengers in yellow life vests from the aircraft, whose fuselage appeared intact. The plane was sinking in the near-freezing water on one of the coldest days of the year, with the mercury around 20 degrees.
Witnesses said the plane's pilot appeared to guide the plane down.
"I see a commercial airliner coming down, looking like it's landing right in the water," said Bob Read, who saw it from his office at the television newsmagazine "Inside Edition." "This looked like a controlled descent."
Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, saw the plane go down from the news organization's high-rise office. "I just thought, 'Why is it so low?' And, splash, it hit the water," she said.
US Airways CEO Doug Parker confirmed that 150 passengers, three flight attendants and two pilots were on board the jetliner.
Joe Mazzone, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, said it is not unusual for birds to strike planes. In fact, he said, when planes get ready to take off, if there are birds in the area, the tower will alert the crew.
"They literally just choke out the engine and it quits," Mazzone said.
Twenty-seven years ago this week, an Air Florida plane bound for Tampa crashed into the Potomac River after hitting a bridge just after takeoff from Washington National Airport. The crash on Jan. 13, 1982, killed 78 people including four people in their cars on the bridge. Five people on the plane survived.
On Dec. 20, a Continental Airlines plane veered off a runway and slid into a snowy field at the Denver airport, injuring 38 people. That was the first major crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner mistakenly took off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090115/...plane_in_river
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Old 01-15-2009, 06:19 PM   #2
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Death is probably sitting on his throne like "fuuuuuuuck".
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Old 01-15-2009, 10:20 PM   #3
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That's amazing.

Not even one?
Goddamned incredible
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Old 01-16-2009, 01:04 AM   #4
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They're making planes too safe these days.
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Old 01-17-2009, 04:15 AM   #5
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

You got to understand that the Pilot is a true hero. He took it upon himself to make the correct judgment and land the plane in the Hudson opposed to what he was told to do. You have give in a great deal of credit for saving a total of 155 lives.
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did anyone die
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A simulation of the flight is on YouTube.
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where they gonna
bury the surviovers?
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finally they added air bags to planes.
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

dude above me..I think your missing the point. It pretty much a GODDAMN MIRACLE that everyone survived.
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Old 01-21-2009, 02:59 PM   #11
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

No that's normal..air traveling is the safest transportation method that humans created up until now.

The real miracle is a buss full of 33 child crashes and flip upside down and fall from a bridge into a raging river and explodes and all the 33 child gets out alive.
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

It's normal that no one dies in a crash? You obviously don't understand basic physics.

Air travel is the safest form of transportation because there are so few crashes, not because crashes are perfectly safe. This is what should have happened.
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

I know that man i was just trolling aorund..
also thanks for the video..i didn't know that it was that epic*thats a one badass pilot*..i was so touched by the vacationers that quickly helped.
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Im happy to know their all made it out okay. Too much unfortunate things has been happening, good to see a miracle once in a while.
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Re: All 155 survive plane crash in NYC's Hudson River

Wow Thats Crazy People Need To Start Thinking More Like That Pilot Forget That Planes Dont Need To Be In The Air Without Proper Searches To See If The Planes Okay Wow Thats Gonna Bug Me Out For A While Like No Lie!
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