US plane crashes in Hudson river

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

The Al-Queda pigeon club maybe.

Or the AFLP (Avian Front for the Liberation of Palestine)?

[rootthemout]

lucky they had such an experienced pilot,saved their lives,and i thought he was just plane sailing

[longrunsthefox]

It is a beautiful walk along the Hudson in winter with the New York skyline in the background....

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BREAKING NEWS: Due to all the protesting in England, Heathrow are going to use the Thames as the third runway.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

You're not dealing with animals that can be simply excluded by a fence.

If they were Palestinian geese I'm sure the Israelis would give it a go.

[armagh leg-end]

On a wing and a prayer.

Guaranteed headline in every paper tomorrow I'd say.

seen the front of the daily mirror?

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[ExiledGael]

On a wing and a prayer.

Guaranteed headline in every paper tomorrow I'd say.

seen the front of the daily mirror?

Irish News too, hardstation could be earning big money somewhere.

[muppet]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike


The impact of a 5 kg (12 pound) bird at 240 km/h (150 mph) equals that of a 1/2 ton (1000 pound) weight dropped from a height of 3 meters (10 ft).

The aircraft would have been flying at least that speed and reports are it was Canada Geese.

Airlik it is unconformed that it was a double enigine failure unless you have seen that somewhere?

Passengers are confirming that the left engine failed.

They said on the news last night it was a double engine failure.

None of the passengers have said that as far as I've seen.

The Mayor Of New York Bloomberg said both engines failed. He may be right. I'm just surprised that the passengers can clearly describe the left one failing and dont seem to talk about the right one failing. Everything would go really really quiet when the second one went.

[Tyrones own]

Everything would go really really quiet when the second one went.

That's true but surely if he had the right engine he would have been able to turn around and make an emergency landing
without feeling the need to dump her in to a river

[Aerlik]

Everything would go really really quiet when the second one went.

That's true but surely if he had the right engine he would have been able to turn around and make an emergency landing
without feeling the need to dump her in to a river

Correct.  Unless it was incorrectly loaded which is unbelievably, extremely, highly unlikely, if you get my drift.

Apparently that photo of all the people standing on the wing of the aircraft was taken by a woman using a camera attached to the end of a telescope from several blocks away.  On one of the Aussie shows yesterday you can clearly see the vignetting affect that is indicative of such a shot.  I hope to hell she has copyrighted that shot because if not she will regret it.  It is one of those shots that every photographer dreams of, the once in a lifetime shot that will be forever remembered.

On the same Aussie show, we were given the commentary of an American TV reporter who clearly stated that (and I paraphrase) the plane glided into "minus 6 degrees" water.  Umm, Physics wasn't my big thing at school but I do remember the bit about water freezing at zero degrees Celsius/32F.  Quality.

[Aerlik]

This is what a bird strike can do to a plane

I feel sorry for the swan.

Not a swan!

And that looks like either a Piper Chieftain or Navajo in behind. 

[DrinkingHarp]

Everything would go really really quiet when the second one went.

That's true but surely if he had the right engine he would have been able to turn around and make an emergency landing
without feeling the need to dump her in to a river

Correct.  Unless it was incorrectly loaded which is unbelievably, extremely, highly unlikely, if you get my drift.

Apparently that photo of all the people standing on the wing of the aircraft was taken by a woman using a camera attached to the end of a telescope from several blocks away.  On one of the Aussie shows yesterday you can clearly see the vignetting affect that is indicative of such a shot.  I hope to hell she has copyrighted that shot because if not she will regret it.  It is one of those shots that every photographer dreams of, the once in a lifetime shot that will be forever remembered.

On the same Aussie show, we were given the commentary of an American TV reporter who clearly stated that (and I paraphrase) the plane glided into "minus 6 degrees" water.  Umm, Physics wasn't my big thing at school but I do remember the bit about water freezing at zero degrees Celsius/32F.  Quality.

Aerlik, it wouldn't be frozen its a moving river (don't know the speed though) if anything the very top would have a thin sheet of ice if any.

[magickingdom]

Everything would go really really quiet when the second one went.

That's true but surely if he had the right engine he would have been able to turn around and make an emergency landing
without feeling the need to dump her in to a river

Correct.  Unless it was incorrectly loaded which is unbelievably, extremely, highly unlikely, if you get my drift.

Apparently that photo of all the people standing on the wing of the aircraft was taken by a woman using a camera attached to the end of a telescope from several blocks away.  On one of the Aussie shows yesterday you can clearly see the vignetting affect that is indicative of such a shot.  I hope to hell she has copyrighted that shot because if not she will regret it.  It is one of those shots that every photographer dreams of, the once in a lifetime shot that will be forever remembered.

On the same Aussie show, we were given the commentary of an American TV reporter who clearly stated that (and I paraphrase) the plane glided into "minus 6 degrees" water.  Umm, Physics wasn't my big thing at school but I do remember the bit about water freezing at zero degrees Celsius/32F.  Quality.

aerlik, i know you know your flying but water freezes at different temp depending on salt content. the hudson would have alot of salt in it at that point so the freezing point is much lower, -10 is not uncommon. also as DH says its a flowing river..

[Bud Wiser]

Did they not have time to put life jackets on as someone has already observed?
We had an ould plane at home one time and I used to fly it around over Ballinakill and one day I got in a spot of bother over Drury's pub and tried to land her in the Nore river.  Ok, so I missed, but, I didn't miss by that much as you will see from what was left of my Massey Ferguson coloured Calor Gas propelled flying machine.