Posted on 01/20/2009 4:40:14 AM PST by DFG
Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has learned.
Steve Jeffrey of Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN he was flying in first class Tuesday when, about 20 minutes into the flight, "it sounded like the wing was just snapping off."
"The red lights started going on. A little pandemonium was going on," Jeffrey recalled.
He said the incident occurred over Newark, New Jersey, soon after the plane -- also flying as Flight 1549 -- had taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York.
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The moral of this story: DON’T fly US Airways flight 1549 out of LaGuardia
It was... it was a chickadee wing breaking off. Two days later it was a goose wing breaking off...
the hero will become the goat ... it’s the template, you see
I think maintenance records revealed the aircraft had compressor stalls just days before the flight. Compressor stalls would give similar symptoms as a massive bird strike. Wonder how the previous stalls were troubleshot and what was the fix? Maybe USAIR has some ‘splainin to do?
No matter what caused the failure - Pilot and crew is to be commended!!!
Dam. Must have been some high flying geese.
Yeah. If this "Sully" guy was such a great pilot, why didn't he just dodge the geese in the first place? Huh?
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The moral of this story: DON’T fly US Airways flight 1549 out of LaGuardia
Or if you do make sure the plane is an American made one
Why not? You'll have a different plane, anyway...
Must have been some high flying geese.
If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going???
Doesn't it seem unlikely that it would happen to both engines at once? I'm still thinking it was a flock of birds.
It was reported that the pilot(s) reflexively ducked when the geese came by. I don't think they would have ducked for a mere compressor stall. Still, the engines are where the questions need to be directed. Why couldn't they be restarted?
Heh. I guess I’d duck too.
I expect that the engines were too badly damaged to restart, though it’s also possible that there simply wasn’t time or altitude enough to do that sort of procedure.
That was my mantra, but my last few Airbus flights did seem a bit more comfortable than the comparable Boeing planes, I'm unhappy to report. Now I have to give each fair consideration, FWIW.
Here are photos of parts of the birds that landed in the yard of a woman. The NTSB and FBI were there several times picking up pieces as evidence.
WARNING: graphic photos of bird remnants (ironically some on the grill in the yard!) http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/D_L_X/US%20Airways%20Bird/
LOL. Tastes like chicken.
Airbus seems to use larger fuselage diameters. Seems to be all good, but the use of plastic is always bad. Fly by wire has many potential issues.
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