Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Red Steel
Breaking now of Fox News.
I bet they were trained in Pate-stan.
Thank God. The Pilot should be praised as a hero. He saved everyone on that plane
PTL!
Especially when the PIC puts it down a couple of blocks from one of the biggest passenger ferry bases in the world.
except never sit in the back of a boeing if you can, they are designed to sink bottom first and you cannot open the back doors in a ditching only the front half exits only are used,as the bottom drops quick but with Airbus, they use all exits as it is less weight and floats level.
The entire crash scene appears to be floating down river at about 2mph. That is really strange to watch.
One of the last shots I saw of the rescue closeup showed boats alongside it, with the planes doors wide open, and nobody going in or out, so I think it’s safe to assume everybody got off.
Daily News reports all passengers got out alive, per ABC TV News: http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=6606424
icing on the wings???
“Water temp is 41.4 degrees.”
That means they’ve got about 20 minutes to get everyone out.
I would think footage of it crashing will turn up, in NY City many camera’s must have caught it.
Amazing images there.
Starting conspiracy theories already?
It’s looking like good news at this point.
Doesn’t take much. The guys at the Air Force base where I used to work many moons ago used to describe wrecked jet engines as “corn cobbed”.
When something, even as small as a nut or bolt (bird) gets sucked into the engine, the pristine rows of compressor and turbine blades all get knocked off or down, and the whole internal assembly looks like a corn cob somebody just finished eating! Doesn’t work very well after that... :-)
Illegal aliens causing m,ore havoc.
They’d have to be quick to get a shot of the impact, due to the fact the pilot only had time to say, “Prepare for impact”, just prior to impact.
Oh my God, what a photo!
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