US Airways Plane Crash in Hudson River

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: Aimster
Look at all those boats coming to help. God Bless the U.S.
Any other country and they'd prob just watch. Seriously

what

On liveleak and break all the accidents in other nations.. people just stand there and don't do anything. They just film it.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: NuroMancer

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Aimster


This is horrible.

Actually, it seems it's not all that bad. Plane's upright, floating, lots of ships nearby. It's probably the best possible plane crash you could imagine.

Not really. 43 degree waters = hypothermia within minutes. And outside air temps are below 20

It actually doesn't mean Hypothermia in minutes, if they are in life jackets/preservers they will survive for quite some time.

The lifejacket isnt a wetsuit. Wouldnt the water still consume the peoples body?

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Aimster
Look at all those boats coming to help. God Bless the U.S.
Any other country and they'd prob just watch. Seriously

You're an idiot.

Anyway, scary stuff, hope they are all ok.

KT

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: Aimster
Look at all those boats coming to help. God Bless the U.S.
Any other country and they'd prob just watch. Seriously

what

On liveleak and break all the accidents in other nations.. people just stand there and don't do anything. They just film it.

bystander effect...same thing happens in the US too. Not just in other countries.

 

[BeauJangles]

A buddy of mine says he can see the rescue boats from his office.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

 

[NuroMancer]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: NuroMancer

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Aimster


This is horrible.

Actually, it seems it's not all that bad. Plane's upright, floating, lots of ships nearby. It's probably the best possible plane crash you could imagine.

Not really. 43 degree waters = hypothermia within minutes. And outside air temps are below 20

It actually doesn't mean Hypothermia in minutes, if they are in life jackets/preservers they will survive for quite some time.

The lifejacket isnt a wetsuit. Wouldnt the water still consume the peoples body?

The cold water will weigh them down, and reduce motor function, but death from hypothermia is actually quite a bit longer then people think. If you lack a life preserver, you have roughly 5-10 minutes before your in trouble in you don't have something to keep your head above water.

Edit: that is if you get over the first shock of the cold water.

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

I don't understand what's funny. Any debris that enters the engine has the potential to cause damage.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

Photos of birdstrikes:

http://blog.flightstory.net/61...bird-strike-aftermath/
http://www.airshowbuzz.com/fil...tos/orig_569_3cba6.jpg

A good video of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNpB-8_BSo

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

I don't understand what's funny. Any debris that enters the engine has the potential to cause damage.

having been on 9 different flights in the past month, 2 being 5000+ miles, I am glad it never happened to me, and I feel bad for those people that it did happen to.

BUT, I have never heard of a flock of birds doing this, and I found it funny. NOT the fact that people may have/did die.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

Photos of birdstrikes:

http://blog.flightstory.net/61...bird-strike-aftermath/
http://www.airshowbuzz.com/fil...tos/orig_569_3cba6.jpg

A good video of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNpB-8_BSo

Those birds must have blew up on impact...I see why planes cruise at such a high altitude.

 

[akshatp]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

A medal? For doing his job? They are trained in what to do in emergency situations. He deserves an atta boy for a job well done, but at the end of the day he is just doing his job.

If I saved a server from crashing at work last week by detecting a HD that was going bad.. i wouldnt get so much as a thank you let alone a medal!

 

[ghost recon88]

CNN reporting all crew and passengers are off the plane now and everyone is OK.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

I don't understand what's funny. Any debris that enters the engine has the potential to cause damage.

I don't understand him either.

Those fan blades have a LOT of momentum and when something hits one mass amounts of energy are released and it's very easy to damage the blade which then breaks up and damages other fan blades and then eventually they begin to get sucked into the internals and the engine explodes. All commercial jet engines are built to withstand that kind of impact and the engine should fail without damaging the rest of the plane which looks to be what happened.

Go to youtube and watch some of the bird ingestion tests run on commercial airliner engines, some spectacular failures.

There's a reason the Navy combs the deck of a carrier so often.

 

[finite automaton]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

A medal? For doing his job? They are trained in what to do in emergency situations. He deserves an atta boy for a job well done, but at the end of the day he is just doing his job.

If I saved a server from crashing at work last week by detecting a HD that was going bad.. i wouldnt get so much as a thank you let alone a medal!

If a single HD would take out a server, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: akshatp

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

A medal? For doing his job? They are trained in what to do in emergency situations. He deserves an atta boy for a job well done, but at the end of the day he is just doing his job.

If I saved a server from crashing at work last week by detecting a HD that was going bad.. i wouldnt get so much as a thank you let alone a medal!

Hardrive != people

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

Do a search for Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (I believe, that's from off the top of my head). It's a fairly famous video of another water landing that was not successful.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Those birds must have blew up on impact...I see why planes cruise at such a high altitude.

Please...just quit while you're behind.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
pilot hit a flock of geese???? haha

You wouldn't be laughing if you were on that plane.

thank god I am not then, huh...

looks like the plane is submerged now...

Motion for ban. It could just as easily been you, or someone you know, on that plane. I bet everyone of the passengers on the plane thought they were going to die. And you think it's funny?

I find it funny that a flock of birds could do this, not the fact that people could/did die.

I don't understand what's funny. Any debris that enters the engine has the potential to cause damage.

I don't understand him either.

Those fan blades have a LOT of momentum and when something hits one mass amounts of energy are released and it's very easy to damage the blade which then breaks up and damages other fan blades and then eventually they begin to get sucked into the internals and the engine explodes. All commercial jet engines are built to withstand that kind of impact and the engine should fail without damaging the rest of the plane which looks to be what happened.

Go to youtube and watch some of the bird ingestion tests run on commercial airliner engines, some spectacular failures.

There's a reason the Navy combs the deck of a carrier so often.

I am not in aviation, so I had not heard of this, nor did I think it was a common event. I thought the force of the engine would propel the bird/s around the engine or the plane...like a...force field I guess...because of the speed it's going at.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
The pilot deserves a medal for his landing. That plane doesn't appear to be broken-up at all and has remained afloat for a VERY long time.

great job by him but you'd have to think many many pilots would have done the same. The difficulty of such a landing though - I can't say anything about that.

Do a search for Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (I believe, that's from off the top of my head). It's a fairly famous video of another water landing that was not successful.

I believe at the time of that flight / crash the plane was under control of terrorists.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: ghost recon88
CNN reporting all crew and passengers are off the plane now and everyone is OK.

awesome!

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Those birds must have blew up on impact...I see why planes cruise at such a high altitude.

Please...just quit while you're behind.

ok ...

 

[SunnyD]

I bet the flight crew never expected to actually use their "In case of a water landing" portion.