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Jet crash in Hudson off NYC
local news

Posted on 01/15/2009 12:48:46 PM PST by wtc911

US Airways Commercial aircraft crashed in Hudson River off Manhattan


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aircrashnyc; hudsonriver; lga; planecrash; usair
Not much news...survivors standing on wings...
1 posted on 01/15/2009 12:48:46 PM PST by wtc911
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Sean Hannity is calling it play by play right now on the radio.


2 posted on 01/15/2009 12:49:36 PM PST by Imgr8t
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Airbus in the water.


3 posted on 01/15/2009 12:50:55 PM PST by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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survivors standing on wings...

Well, that's good, please let everyone be a survivor.

4 posted on 01/15/2009 12:51:34 PM PST by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate, makes a Marxist President.)
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Good there are survivors.
5 posted on 01/15/2009 12:51:46 PM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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Live video link http://mfile.akamai.com/23042/live/reflector:45282.asx Its an Airbus A3 20 and there were 60 people on it
6 posted on 01/15/2009 12:53:41 PM PST by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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Commuter ferries taking the survivors off. There were 147 people on board.

It was on an approach to LGA.

7 posted on 01/15/2009 12:53:58 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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From LaGuardia to Charlotte.


8 posted on 01/15/2009 12:57:53 PM PST by malkee (Abigail Adams is my role model.)
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CNN reporting eyewitnessing saying it was a “gentle landing.”


9 posted on 01/15/2009 12:58:03 PM PST by TankerKC (Lately I miss the Y2K kooks.)
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Fuselage still intact? Sounds like it was ditched.


10 posted on 01/15/2009 12:58:12 PM PST by Kirkwood
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NY Metro News reporting the pilot alerted ATC he had flown into a flock of geese and ingested into both engines.


11 posted on 01/15/2009 12:58:14 PM PST by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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Water temperature @ 41 degrees...air temperature in low twenties.


12 posted on 01/15/2009 12:58:19 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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13 posted on 01/15/2009 12:58:45 PM PST by Diogenesis
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14 posted on 01/15/2009 1:02:01 PM PST by Diogenesis
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Going under...


15 posted on 01/15/2009 1:02:38 PM PST by malkee (Abigail Adams is my role model.)
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Looks hopeful for multiple survivors.


16 posted on 01/15/2009 1:03:21 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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17 posted on 01/15/2009 1:05:48 PM PST by Diogenesis
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Everyone survived the ditching and live pictures are fascinating as port tugboat is hauling the A320 to shore!


18 posted on 01/15/2009 1:31:59 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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Unbelievable.


19 posted on 01/15/2009 2:42:49 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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