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Just seeing the news now:

US Airways A320, bird strike after departure from La Guardia, New York. Crashed in Hudson River.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.yo ... index.html

Hopefully the initial reports are true, and they've been able to evacuate the aircraft.

Pictures being shown now on British TV show it intact.

Apparently everyone got out.  Amazing piloting job there. [smiley=clapping.gif]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.yo ... topstories

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Interesting Press conference, sounded like a pre flight briefing from flight crew.

Interesting Press conference, sounded like a pre flight briefing from flight crew.

Everyone will be covering their backs.

Excellent job by the pilots. Case in point: The media is actually calling it a forced landing, rather than using the term "crash".

Looks like everyone survived, and only one or two minor injuries, besides being wet and cold.

Excellent job by the pilots. Case in point: The media is actually calling it a forced landing, rather than using the term "crash".

That's because it was a forced landing - it didn't "crash" as such, and it appears there was some degree of control until the aircraft was on the water.

So good that everyone survived..

that's a true miracle for a water landing!!!

oh wait... is it a water LANDing?

:-/

So good that everyone survived..

that's a true miracle for a water landing!!!

oh wait... is it a water LANDing?

:-/

I think the correct English would be to say the aeroplane performed a water alighting, or maybe more correctly, alighted on the water.

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Yes, I'm aware of the differences between a "crash" and a "forced-landing", I'm just saying that the media actually is not jumping on this as a cataclysmic entry into the water, as they usually do.

It's very obvious that the pilots did an excellent job ditching the aircraft, and the media is actually making a point of saying that for once. It just surprised me.

The only stupid questions on television that I've heard yet is why the pilot did not turn to avoid the birds.

Initially, they did call it a crash... along wth the usual eyewitness blurbs about the plane "falling out of the sky" and "hitting the water".

Their job is not to inform the public, but to feed anxieties.

They also described it initially as a "small plane that holds about 150 people"... and NBC, who pretty much only had to turn a camera in their studio towards the window to cover it, put their "aviation expert" on about an hour after the ditching, and he promptly explained that it was a CRJ.



BTW, the correct term is "ditching", although I have no idea what it has to do with ditches...

An outstanding piece of airman ship. I would be most surprised if (after the price has been agreed) some interesting video of this does not surface. It landed in front of the Intrepid in view of the Empire State, both places full of people and camcorders. It would also be interesting to see if the engines are still on the wings or not. This would indicate what sort of landing it made. If it "landed" on the water they would normally be ripped off, as they are designed too or if they are still on, possibly indicating that the pilot stalled her onto the water tail first. I think I am also right in saying that this is the first ditching of an airliner where the aircraft did no break up and all walked/floated away.

Matt

An outstanding piece of airman ship. I would be most surprised if (after the price has been agreed) some interesting video of this does not surface. It landed in front of the Intrepid in view of the Empire State, both places full of people and camcorders. It would also be interesting to see if the engines are still on the wings or not. This would indicate what sort of landing it made. If it "landed" on the water they would normally be ripped off, as they are designed too or if they are still on, possibly indicating that the pilot stalled her onto the water tail first. I think I am also right in saying that this is the first ditching of an airliner where the aircraft did no break up and all walked/floated away.

Matt

Yes, a ex-pilot explained the landing on dutch television, he explained the trouble with a single wing tip hitting the water and the outstanding flying of the pilots, first thing i would try and do is landing with the tail first so the plane eases into the water, although i have no idea what the correct procedure would be.

although i have no idea what the correct procedure would be.

Scream a string of cuss words while wildly yanking at the yoke and stomping the rudder pedals and smashing the throttle through the quadrant....well that's how I would save everybody.  Smooth and professional.  That's right.  Just like Top Gun.  Captain Truck.