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US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:17 pmby skoker
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/USA1549US Airways 1549 an A320 LGA-CLT has crashed into the Hudson. 151 onboard. Reported all made it out safely. AFTER TAKEOFF PLANE HIT BIRDS AND LOST BOTH ENGINES. The reported temperature was 41*F in the water. Reported that people were waiting on top of the plane. The plane was in the air for 6min. Should be ABC right now.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:21 pmby C
Anyone else wanting to start a new thread on this. This is thread #4...
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:53 pmby Brando14100
Anyone else wanting to start a new thread on this. This is thread #4...
I was about to start a new one until I saw all of them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/plane_in_riverI was watching this live and I got in a big fight with my mom because I was trying to tell her about how the plane would be able to float for a while due to the less dense than water jet fuel in the unreptured fuel tanks. She was trying ot tell me that density had nothing to do with it and that little theory didn't make sense. I tried to explain it wasn't theory, it was fact, then she flipped out and started screaming at me. Geeze I think I would have rather been on the plane.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:57 pmby beaky
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I was watching this live and I got in a big fight with my mom because I was trying to tell her about how the plane would be able to float for a while due to the less dense than water jet fuel in the unreptured fuel tanks. She was trying ot tell me that density had nothing to do with it and that little theory didn't make sense. I tried to explain it wasn't theory, it was fact, then she flipped out and started screaming at me. Geeze I think I would have rather been on the plane.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:21 pmby Brando14100
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I was watching this live and I got in a big fight with my mom because I was trying to tell her about how the plane would be able to float for a while due to the less dense than water jet fuel in the unreptured fuel tanks. She was trying ot tell me that density had nothing to do with it and that little theory didn't make sense. I tried to explain it wasn't theory, it was fact, then she flipped out and started screaming at me. Geeze I think I would have rather been on the plane.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:32 pmby Brando14100
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:42 pmby BFMF
THe one time I don't watch the evening news, I miss this....
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:14 pmby yancovitch
the thing i really want to know is....will they be able to salvage the plane?...or is it toast?......
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:36 pmby Ang2dogs
BRAVO, to the Captain for saving life and limb, BRAVO to the whole crew, BRAVO job welldone [smiley=clapping.gif]
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:25 amby expat
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I was watching this live and I got in a big fight with my mom because I was trying to tell her about how the plane would be able to float for a while due to the less dense than water jet fuel in the unreptured fuel tanks. She was trying ot tell me that density had nothing to do with it and that little theory didn't make sense. I tried to explain it wasn't theory, it was fact, then she flipped out and started screaming at me. Geeze I think I would have rather been on the plane.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:51 amby Jeff.Guo
I think we are also forgetting a few other things here. Three large air storage devices..................aft cargo, forward cargo and as it was only flying to North Carolina, a very empty center tank ,not to mention nose avionics bay and main avionics bay, AND most importantly a small pushbutton on the overhead panel that has a label under it marked "Ditching". Pushing this closes all "orifices" to the outside world, ram air, overboard vent valves, cabin pressurisation etc thus keeping water out for quite a while. Rather clever is the Airbus.
I do question how long those systems remain functional though, especially with no APU power and with the batt shut off.
My hat does go off to the pilot though, with all that fuel on board, the ditching attempt could've easily turned into complete disaster. Most pilots wouldn't have been comfortable landing a perfectly good aircraft with that much fuel, let alone ditch a unpowered one.
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:35 amby expat
I think we are also forgetting a few other things here. Three large air storage devices..................aft cargo, forward cargo and as it was only flying to North Carolina, a very empty center tank ,not to mention nose avionics bay and main avionics bay, AND most importantly a small pushbutton on the overhead panel that has a label under it marked "Ditching". Pushing this closes all "orifices" to the outside world, ram air, overboard vent valves, cabin pressurisation etc thus keeping water out for quite a while. Rather clever is the Airbus.
I do question how long those systems remain functional though, especially with no APU power and with the batt shut off.
They remain very functional, they are "power off closed" items.
Matt
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:20 pmby Brando14100
I think we are also forgetting a few other things here. Three large air storage devices..................aft cargo, forward cargo and as it was only flying to North Carolina, a very empty center tank ,not to mention nose avionics bay and main avionics bay, AND most importantly a small pushbutton on the overhead panel that has a label under it marked "Ditching". Pushing this closes all "orifices" to the outside world, ram air, overboard vent valves, cabin pressurisation etc thus keeping water out for quite a while. Rather clever is the Airbus.
I do question how long those systems remain functional though, especially with no APU power and with the batt shut off.
They remain very functional, they are "power off closed" items.
Matt
I was talking about this with my Business teacher today aand he asked me if there was a button like that, I told him I didn't think so. Oops. I'll tell him there is if the subject comes up again.
8-)
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:28 pmby Brando14100
I just told my mom about that switch and she is still arguing with me. She thinks that it would've sunk immediatley if it hadn't been tetherd to the ships because there was water in it and that's what the news guy said. Yeah, the news guy was also holding a model of an A320 and was calling it a 737 for a while. ::) I don't understand why people can't admit it when they're wrong.
8-)
Re: US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:56 pmby Brando14100
Now they have found that both engines are missing. So, not exactly a perfecty executed ditch, but better than a cartwheel effect.
8-)