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US Airways Jet crashes in Hudson River in NYC
Fox ^ | Jan 15, 2009

Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Red Steel

Breaking now of Fox News.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airlines; charlotte; clt; flight1549; hudsonriver; laguardia; laguardiaairport; lga; nywaterway; planecrash; prayers; rescue; usair; weehawken
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To: NavVet
Friggen birds. I’m stuck at LaGuardia now.

You should be issued a shotgun and duck caller for these flights.

481 posted on 01/15/2009 4:17:45 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: djf

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.


482 posted on 01/15/2009 4:19:35 PM PST by cammie
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

No silver lining is without its cloud. :P


483 posted on 01/15/2009 4:22:47 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Moose4

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!”...


484 posted on 01/15/2009 4:31:47 PM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Red Steel

God saved those folks, in his wisdom he decided it wasn’t their time yet.

I am especially glad he spared the wee ones.


485 posted on 01/15/2009 4:32:58 PM PST by wardaddy (Monarchists for Palin 2012)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Aircraft ingests a few dozen geese upon take-off and the pilot makes a great landing and all are saved. Great news! Why must we now have to suffer a phalanx of useless politicians?

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."

486 posted on 01/15/2009 4:33:39 PM PST by OBXWanderer
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To: raccoonradio

Blame Canada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44P8C4VJkN4


487 posted on 01/15/2009 4:36:08 PM PST by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: flintsilver7; AFPhys; Beloved Levinite

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


488 posted on 01/15/2009 4:37:06 PM PST by wardaddy (Monarchists for Palin 2012)
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To: All

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.


489 posted on 01/15/2009 4:38:51 PM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: Roccus
Live on MSNBC now.

Why would you watch MSNBC?

490 posted on 01/15/2009 4:39:56 PM PST by Saint Reagan
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To: AFPhys

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


491 posted on 01/15/2009 4:41:51 PM PST by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: AFPhys
Info and photo and Photos on this thread:

BBC: Airbus crashes in New York river ( Video )

492 posted on 01/15/2009 4:43:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Red Steel

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


493 posted on 01/15/2009 4:49:38 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ezekiel

Very good. You’re “Oy vey” gave me goosebumps.


494 posted on 01/15/2009 5:11:19 PM PST by freema (MarineNiece,Daughter,Wife,Friend,Sister,Friend,Aunt,Friend,Mother,Friend,Cousin, FRiend)
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To: All
“The Hero of Flight 1549 (Pilot is Air Force Vet!)”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2165408/posts

495 posted on 01/15/2009 5:11:59 PM PST by 444Flyer (Blame Hamas)
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To: Free America52

That would freak me out too. I’m so glad everyone is OK, including you. :)


496 posted on 01/15/2009 5:13:34 PM PST by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ Pro-Palin & NObama Gear : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Friggen birds. I’m stuck at LaGuardia now.
You should be issued a shotgun and duck caller for these flights.

Sounds like a job for Dick Cheney. He'll scare everything out of the way. :-)


497 posted on 01/15/2009 5:16:42 PM PST by magooey (Obama/Soetoro - the demagogue the Founding Fathers were waiting for)
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To: Moose4

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.


498 posted on 01/15/2009 5:17:42 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: editor-surveyor

More than a little unusual.

Note that they now have it docked,

Tied to a pier.

Man, who saw that coming.


499 posted on 01/15/2009 5:21:02 PM PST by patton (SPQA)
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To: malkee

Dogs on the runway can’t do a thing about geese at 3000 ft.


500 posted on 01/15/2009 5:28:26 PM PST by DonnerT
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