Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Red Steel
Breaking now of Fox News.
You should be issued a shotgun and duck caller for these flights.
Sorry to activate your he-man woman-hater gene. My comment, of course, had nothing to do with gender but the tenor of the comment as I read it. So maybe you oughta put a lid on it.
No silver lining is without its cloud. :P
Well, I again have to admit surprise... after looking around, it appears that this is the first ATTEMPTED ditching by either Boeing-737 or its knockoff, the Airbus-320. There have been a few crashes into water, but this seems to be the first controlled flight into the water.
So, yeah, I’ll reiterate what I wrote earlier: I wouldn’t be surprised if, to the pilot, the only time he was really crossing his fingers in this whole incident was when the water was coming up toward him, and he was saying, “Well, this is the one thing I haven’t really done before... I hope to God this works the way I’ve been trained!”...
God saved those folks, in his wisdom he decided it wasn’t their time yet.
I am especially glad he spared the wee ones.
And lawyers driving all over NYC, "Who can we sue, who can we sue....the geese, yea, the geese, I need a subpeona for a goose."
when I used to work mining in Brasil we had single pilot Citation with gravel kit for road runways
intake indeed did have chickenwire style intake covers
We had an Air Force AWACS plane hit a flock of geese on takeoff years ago up here in Anchorage Alaska, no survivors.
There was then a major overhaul on geese control in Anchorage and at times it was not pretty especially at the military base, they got rid of them immediately before any aircraft started to take off by any means.
Why would you watch MSNBC?
Actually there’s been one other—a B737-300, Garuda Indonesia 421, in 2002, successfully ditched into a river after a double engine failure in a thunderstorm (shades of Southern 242). There was only one fatality, a flight attendant. It was, however, more of a crash than a ditch, because the river was only a meter deep where they hit.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020116-0
}:-)4
Some guy they interviewed said that the men on the plane made sure the women and children got off first.
Chivalry is not dead.
It’s great to hear that there are real men out there.
Way to go guys.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28680895#28681226
Very good. You’re “Oy vey” gave me goosebumps.
That would freak me out too. I’m so glad everyone is OK, including you. :)
Sounds like a job for Dick Cheney. He'll scare everything out of the way. :-)
As I said about 100 or so posts back, this is the first water landing of a jet airliner in more than 20 years where the plane was intact. Last one was in 1985; a DC-10 that had a failed/aborted takeoff in Puerto Rico and went off the runway into a lake.
More than a little unusual.
Note that they now have it docked,
Tied to a pier.
Man, who saw that coming.
Dogs on the runway can’t do a thing about geese at 3000 ft.
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