Posted on 01/15/2009 3:55:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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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 ...
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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.
Citizen journalists capture aftermath of Hudson River jet plunge
Give Capt. Sully the “Chuck Yeager Award” !
It didn’t “crash” in the Hudson River. It made a perfect belly landing on the water, with landing gear up.
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...
CRASH is a better word ....as far as journalists are concerned...
Yes ... Kudos all around for what could have been a disaster
I never realized how wide the Hudson really is.
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.
He had the ‘Right Stuff’ !
Click on the satellite view as well:
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=40.768306&lon=-73.98&zoom=14
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.
I wonder if he knew the Ferry Site was nearby?
> Airbus A320... Officials believe the plane may have collided with a flock of geese.
Thanks Ernest.
(A320 compared to A380)
Any idea just where the plane went into the river?
on the satellite map...
Maybe the same size as the Boeing 737...
Sure, but when people hear 'small plane', they generally think Piper or something of the sort.
not...
They were Islamic suicide geese
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