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To: Sacajaweau

Probably not, on the black box, but the crash analysis of the aircraft pieces being assembled as we type in a warehouse hastily-rented by the NTSB somewhere close to the crash site, will tell us.

Look, the engine mounts were probably designed to shear off with the forces of a water landing. I’m thinking that things worked as designed, and that this is one of many elements that led to this event having such a good outcome - a very experienced pilot who did the right thing, engines designed to shear off, many boats in the water nearby, passengers acting and crew acting coolly to get everyone off, etc.


83 posted on 01/17/2009 9:05:39 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Obama: Carter's only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
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Emergency crew members work around the wreckage of the US Airways airplane that crashed in the Hudson River, as the tail fin and left wing stick out of the icy waters while awaiting it's removal, in New York January 17, 2009. REUTERS/Patrick Andrade(UNITED STATES)


84 posted on 01/17/2009 12:26:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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