Co-pilot Braved Frigid Waters to Retrieve Vests for Passengers (Our Hometown Boy Did Good!)

JSOnline ^ | January 16, 2009 | Stacy Forster

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I just found out this morning that Mr. S. is from my little Cow Town. (Would've posted sooner, but work gets in my way. Grrrr!)

[big'ol_freeper]

God bless the pilot and co-pilot in this incident. They reflect great credit on the American spirit.

[the invisib1e hand]

...no one was injured...

what are the odds?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hey! Are you trying to seduce me with that tag line? If so, I surrender to your every whim, LOL!

[Lady GOP]

Former military pilot...this guy is DA BOMB.

[Golddigger3]

Remember 25 years ago when a plane went down in the water in Washington D.C., and a pedestrian jumped off the bridge and repeatedly swam from wreckage to shore to save survivors until he died of exposurer in the winter water?

[Man50D]

Great job by everyone involved!

was a key reason no one was injured or killed,

One report stated a flight attendant had a broken leg.

[big'ol_freeper]

I remember that like it was yesterday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90

[null and void]

Get a load of this guy's tagline.

(I think he stole my recipe)...

[Lady GOP]

[the invisib1e hand]

kewl. looks like someone from your town turned out OK. ;)

[big'ol_freeper]

LOL...guess I should change that. If you go to the American Idol live thread you will see a lot of that in tag lines. Sort of an inside joke based on one of the folks who auditioned calling himself “Sexual Chocolate”.

[Man50D]

Remember 25 years ago when a plane went down in the water in Washington D.C., and a pedestrian jumped off the bridge and repeatedly swam from wreckage to shore to save survivors until he died of exposurer in the winter water?

If memory serves me correctly his first name was Lenny but I can't remember his last name and President Reagan honored him at the next State Of The Union address.

[Lil'freeper]

Wait a minute. What happened to the sexual beerfarts??

[PLMerite]

“Injured” is so vague a term as to be meaningless.

“Seriously injured” is almost as vague, but in the scheme of things I think one broken leg, some cuts and bruises, shock and hypothermia is getting away easy compared to what might have happened.

[big'ol_freeper]

What happened to the sexual beerfarts??

That was the first night of American Idol. Changed it for day two since nobody but you laughed. *wink*

[Red_Devil 232]

Great job by all the flight crew!

[Lizavetta]

Thank goodness there wasn’t an affirmative action pilot at the controls.

[Lady GOP]

Cant find a photo of your guy still looking though..
:)

[Lil'freeper]

“Seriously injured” is almost as vague, but in the scheme of things I think one broken leg, some cuts and bruises, shock and hypothermia is getting away easy compared to what might have happened.

True enough. As an academic aside, try googling AIS or Abbreviated Injury Scale. It's an injury severity scoring system that is used by the civilian and military medical communities. Technically, "injury" and "serious injury" can be defined fairly precisely, I just wouldn't expect a journalist to do so.