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BBC: Airbus crashes in New York river ( Video )
BBC ^ | Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:19 GMT, | BBC Staff

Posted on 01/15/2009 3:55:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

See link for Video:

Passengers are rescued from the plane's wings

A US airliner on a domestic flight with at least 152 people aboard has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City but with no loss of life.

All 148 passengers and the crew of at least four were rescued from the sinking plane, with some suffering injuries on impact.

The US Airways Airbus A320 crashed just after taking off from LaGuardia Airport heading for Charlotte, North Carolina.

Officials believe the plane may have collided with a flock of geese.

"There is no indication that the incident is security-related," a homeland security official told the BBC.

Rescue boats plucked passengers, who could be seen wearing life jackets, from the wings of the plane on a day which saw sub-zero temperatures in the city.

The BBC's Greg Wood, in New York, says the plane was drifting rapidly down the Hudson as the rescue was carried out.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flight1549; hero; hudsonriver; lga; pilot; planecrash; sullenberger; usaf; usairways
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1 posted on 01/15/2009 3:55:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: All
H/T to the Drudge report:

The Hero Of Flight 1549

Veteran pilot, 57, safely landed US Airways jet in Hudson River

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JANUARY 15--Meet Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III, the US Airways pilot who today amazingly crash-landed a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River without any apparent fatalities. The heroic Sullenberger, 57, has worked for US Airways since 1980, and before that spent more than six years as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot.

2 posted on 01/15/2009 3:58:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: All; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; blam; tubebender
Photos from the Smoking gun ...H/T to the Drudge Report

Pictures Of US Airways Crash

Citizen journalists capture aftermath of Hudson River jet plunge

3 posted on 01/15/2009 4:02:44 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Give Capt. Sully the “Chuck Yeager Award” !


4 posted on 01/15/2009 4:03:47 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It didn’t “crash” in the Hudson River. It made a perfect belly landing on the water, with landing gear up.


5 posted on 01/15/2009 4:05:43 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Look at the second photo on the lin just above....the Ferries need some praise too....it was a long way to shore in freezing water...


6 posted on 01/15/2009 4:06:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: ETL

CRASH is a better word ....as far as journalists are concerned...


7 posted on 01/15/2009 4:07:54 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes ... Kudos all around for what could have been a disaster


8 posted on 01/15/2009 4:11:48 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I never realized how wide the Hudson really is.


9 posted on 01/15/2009 4:15:18 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I was predestined to be an Arminian but am considering choosing Calvinism.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

For about an hour into the story, FoxNews and NY1 were reporting that it was a ‘small plane’. They did the same with 911. I guess that’s the way people who called in described it to them.


10 posted on 01/15/2009 4:16:27 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He had the ‘Right Stuff’ !


11 posted on 01/15/2009 4:17:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Click on the satellite view as well:
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=40.768306&lon=-73.98&zoom=14


12 posted on 01/15/2009 4:17:51 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: ETL

Yeah, it looks maybe a mile and a half wide, probably double that of the Detroit River. I was picturing something narrower (maybe more like the east river) and with a bridge every few feet.


13 posted on 01/15/2009 4:25:13 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I was predestined to be an Arminian but am considering choosing Calvinism.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder if he knew the Ferry Site was nearby?


14 posted on 01/15/2009 4:26:07 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

> Airbus A320... Officials believe the plane may have collided with a flock of geese.

Thanks Ernest.


15 posted on 01/15/2009 4:26:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: ETL
In the scheme of things, it definitely isn't the biggest plane out there.

(A320 compared to A380)


16 posted on 01/15/2009 4:29:52 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I was predestined to be an Arminian but am considering choosing Calvinism.)
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To: ETL

Any idea just where the plane went into the river?

on the satellite map...


17 posted on 01/15/2009 4:38:33 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Maybe the same size as the Boeing 737...


18 posted on 01/15/2009 4:39:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Larry Lucido
In the scheme of things, it definitely isn't the biggest plane out there. (A320 compared to A380)

Sure, but when people hear 'small plane', they generally think Piper or something of the sort.

not...


19 posted on 01/15/2009 4:42:06 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: SunkenCiv

They were Islamic suicide geese


20 posted on 01/15/2009 4:43:34 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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