Plane Crash in Husdon River 16th Jan 2009
 

Everyone rescued! Amazing! Great job people!!!

Yea, I have been watching it live as well. Pretty damm good job by a pilot and a large dose of good luck.

Actually, I suppose it's the 15th over there. Silly me.

Still, it's an impressive fact that everyone survived.

It's a cold day to be sitting in the Hudson River.

Looks like they got them all out of the water pretty quickly though which is a good thing. Hyperthermia wouldn't take long in those temps.

Most interesting was how fast the passenger ferry boats arrived on the scene. They must have some sort of partnership with the coast guard.

You must remember,NYC has a thing about disasters.they pull together when the going gets rough

I think there is YouTube of this plane ingesting a big ole goose in the No. 2 engine -- righthand side -- just on rotation to take off. Big fire, then on-off-on-off orange flame shooting out the pipe. That says that engine was totally wrecked. Just saw the footage on Fox News.

But I think with the ferryboats it was more a case of everybody seeing the plane going in the river: "Holy shit, it's crashing! Get over there!" Good thing the water was shallow. Ended up with all those people wading to safety along the wing.

Outstanding performance on the part of the pilot. Incredible response on the part of New York City.

This could have been a hideous tragedy. Instead, it is an inspirational tale showing the absolute best about America and Americans.

Fuckin' A, bubba.

Oh, come on. "Flock of birds" is a euphemism for "laser guided anti-aircraft missle."

Well, it was a french plane. :rolleyes:

It was 2 flocks of birds.....

Mmmm, coordinated attack.

What puzzles me is that they didn't sink a vessel or two on the river - or did they?

Anyway, a big kudos to the crew and captain.

Laser guided flock of birds designed by the CIA to bring down another aircraft into the city to blame on a terrorist and raise the threat level to red. The pilot thwarted their attempts.[/tinfoilhat]