US Airways flight 1549 goes down in Hudson River

[SketchMaster]

Glad everyone made it out ok, that could have ended VERY bad.

NEW YORK - A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the frigid waters, a government official said.

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Government officials did not believe the crash is related to terrorism.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678669/?GT1=43001

Well no ****ing ****. Come on people, do you really need to try and make a reference to terrorism every god damn time something happens to a plane?

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Thread title should be Pilot saves all aboard

148 plus 5 crew

Absolute awesome job bringing it down so softly

Clap clap clap :thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster
Glad everyone made it out ok, that could have ended VERY bad.

NEW YORK - A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the frigid waters, a government official said.

....

Government officials did not believe the crash is related to terrorism.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678669/?GT1=43001

Well no ****ing ****, I would have never guessed. Come on people, do you really need to try and make a reference to terrorism every god damn time something happens to a plane?

Fear fear fear Terrer Terrer Terrer = Mission Accomplished

 

[fallenangel99]

Scary, I can't swim so If i was on the plane, I would freak out!!

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/....0W_7HnHaxu8cWyxLFps8F

You can see some passengers standing on the plane as its slowly sinking!!

 

[bamacre]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike

I imagine older footage... (although it says 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR2CerDKapk

 

[Sinsear]

Great job by that pilot!

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Sounds like the pilot watched the movie "The Core"

Gj to the pilot

 

[alien42]

fox news is retarded, they have an all caps alert that says "PLANE STRUCK A BIRD THAT DISABLED TWO ENGINES"

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: SketchMaster
Glad everyone made it out ok, that could have ended VERY bad.

NEW YORK - A US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the frigid waters, a government official said.

....

Government officials did not believe the crash is related to terrorism.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28678669/?GT1=43001

Well no ****ing ****, I would have never guessed. Come on people, do you really need to try and make a reference to terrorism every god damn time something happens to a plane?

Fear fear fear Terrer Terrer Terrer = Mission Accomplished

Shouldnt you be playing with your new Martian friends?

 

[Arkaign]

I think we should immediately round up all birds for questioning in this incident!

 

[Lemon law]

No, any terrorism questions are valid and its, in that sense, a relief to see its probably not terrorism. And yes, kudos to the pilot who choose his safest alternative, but hypothermia is now a huge danger to any survivors soaked to the skin. I do not have any time temperature charts of survival time handy, but 40 degree water is close to as cold as it gets. Many may die of hypothermia if they do not get them into boats, and warm them up very quick.

Sad, very sad,

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: fallenangel99
Scary, I can't swim so If i was on the plane, I would freak out!!

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/....0W_7HnHaxu8cWyxLFps8F

You can see some passengers standing on the plane as its slowly sinking!!

Wow, you should really take lessons. It's a survival thing, why die needlessly?

Anyways, kudos to the pilots, that's a pretty amazing thing.

Not something I would ever want to experience, I hate flying enough as it is. :beer:

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: alien42
fox news is retarded, they have an all caps alert that says "PLANE STRUCK A BIRD THAT DISABLED TWO ENGINES"

I can see it now: A bird comes up to a plane and says hello. Plane responds with something to the effect of "your mom" to which the bird goes berserk and hits the plane's engines. Plane is like "No, FU!" and assaults the bird head-on.

Now thats quality entertainment!

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
The engines are designed to take the impact of a bird going through it. This happens all the time. However because this was just taking off there may not have been enough speed or altitude to recover.

Yes, but its a bit different when you hit more than 1 and its both engines involved. Something that big will still break the fins in the turbine, especially several entering at once. Their lucky none of the fins broke off and went into the fuselage.

Also as I read on the BBC from a retired Delta pilot: "They literally just choke out the engine and it quits," Mr Mazzone said.

So basically I suspect the pilot had no time to get any of the engines back online. He was only a couple hundred feet in the air and had the choice of either landing or continuing to try and restart the engines.

Whatever happened that pilot did an awesome job!

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
The engines are designed to take the impact of a bird going through it. This happens all the time. However because this was just taking off there may not have been enough speed or altitude to recover.

Yes, they are rated for bird strikes, but sometimes, well...shit happens.

Bring me my brown pants

 

[Genx87]

Bird strikes are no joke. They will destroy a turbine engine pretty damn quick as some have shown with the thompson 757 footage. If they flew through a flock of them they could easily take out both engines.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Thread title should be Pilot saves all aboard

148 plus 5 crew

Absolute awesome job bringing it down so softly

Clap clap clap :thumbsup:

Hero Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger saves all aboard


40yrs flight experience, flew F4's in the airforce, served as safety consultant for NASA

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: alien42
fox news is retarded, they have an all caps alert that says "PLANE STRUCK A BIRD THAT DISABLED TWO ENGINES"

If you can kill two birds with one stone, then why can't one bird kill two engines?



Seriously though, the pilot deserves a nice fat bonus check for this landing.