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Plane Crashes in Hudson River NY
« on: January 16, 2009, 07:54:54 AM »
NEW YORK – A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but officials said rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank.
There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an experienced pilot, said it appeared the pilot did "a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure everybody got out." And Gov. David Patterson pronounced it "a miracle on the Hudson."
Flight 1549 went down minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport for Charlotte, N.C., splashing into the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.
"There were eyewitness reports the plane may have flown into a flock of birds," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown. "Right now we don't have any indication this was anything other than an accident."
Passenger Jeff Kolodjay of Norwalk, Conn., said he heard an explosion two or three minutes into the flight, looked out the left side of the Airbus A320 and saw one of the engines on fire.
"The captain said, `Brace for impact because we're going down,'" Kolodjay said. He said passengers put their heads in their laps and started praying. He said the plane hit the water pretty hard, but he was fine.
"It was intense. It was intense. You've got to give it to the pilot. He made a hell of a landing," Kolodjay said.
The plane was submerged in the icy waters up to the windows when rescuers in police and Coast Guard vessels and ferry boats arrived, opened the door and pulled passengers in yellow life vests from the aircraft, whose fuselage appeared intact. The plane was sinking in the near-freezing water on one of the coldest days of the year, with the mercury around 20 degrees.
Police divers rescued a few people from the water, Bloomberg said. Other passengers were able to walk out onto the wings, then onto rescue boats.
Paramedics treated at least 78 patients, fire officials said. The Coast Guard said it rescued 35 people who were immersed in the cold water and ferried them to shore. Most were sent to hospitals. No information was released on their condition.
Witnesses said the pilot appeared to guide the plane down.
"I see a commercial airliner coming down, looking like it's landing right in the water," said Bob Read, who saw it from his office at the television newsmagazine "Inside Edition." "This looked like a controlled descent."
Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, saw the plane go down from the news organization's high-rise office. "I just thought, 'Why is it so low?' And, splash, it hit the water," she said.
The pilot reported a "double bird strike" less than a minute after taking off, said Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union. The controller sent the aircraft back toward LaGuardia, but the pilot saw an airport below him and asked what it was, Church said. It was Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, and the pilot asked to land there, Church said.
The instruction to land at Teterboro was the last communication with the plane before it went into the river, Church said.
US Airways said 150 passengers, three flight attendants and two pilots were on board the jetliner.
"This is really a potential tragedy that may have become one of the most spectacular days in the history of New York City's agencies, its coordination and the greatness of the people that work here and all they did for those passengers who are now tonight going to go home to their families," the governor said.
Joe Mazzone, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, said it is not unusual for birds to strike planes. In fact, he said, when planes get ready to take off, if there are birds in the area, the tower will alert the crew.
In the rare cases in which birds get sucked into an engine, "they literally just choke out the engine and it quits," Mazzone said.
Twenty-seven years ago this week, an Air Florida plane bound for Tampa crashed into the Potomac River after hitting a bridge just after takeoff from Washington National Airport. The crash on Jan. 13, 1982, killed 78 people including four people in their cars on the bridge. Five people on the plane survived.
On Dec. 20, a Continental Airlines plane veered off a runway and slid into a snowy field at the Denver airport, injuring 38 people. That was the first major crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner mistakenly took off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Ky.
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Associated Press writers Colleen Long in New York City, Joan Lowy, Eileen Sullivan and Michael J. Sniffen in Washington and Harry R. Weber in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Re: Plane crashes in Hudson River NY
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 09:28:42 AM »
Thanks God nobody was seriously injured.  It was really a close call jud. 

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Re: Plane crashes in Hudson River NY
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 10:05:37 AM »
Mao gyud miracle nga way namatay.Swerte kaayo salute ko sa pilot.Mao jud ni kinahanglan jud ta mag pay attention sa flight attendant kay ako raba naa koy tendency nga segi na lagi lupad lupad sahay di na maminaw sa flight attendant tua nuon naglayaw layaw ang hunahuna.

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Plane Crashes in the Hudson River -please merge or lock topic
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2009, 06:38:12 PM »
EVERYONE SURVIVES






A US Airways plane went down in the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan this afternoon after attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport, officials said. It is believed that the cause of the crash is due to a goose being sucked into it's engine.

Passengers aboard the stricken jet made a miraculous escape. A full-scale rescue operation was sparked after the US Airways flight from LaGuardia Airport went down in the icy waters of the Hudson.

A fleet of passenger ferries and holiday cruisers which were in the area also helped in the rescue bid before the craft became completely submerged. The Airbus A320 jet, flight 1549 to Charlotte in North Carolina, had around 100 passengers on board.

Crash survivor Alberto Panero said last night: ''I just feel so lucky to be alive - it's a miracle.''

He said within minutes of the plane taking off there was a ''loud bang'' and smoke began billowing in to the plane from the cockpit area.

He said passengers could feel the plane turn then the pilot calmly announced ''get ready for impact.''

''Then we hit the water. There was people yelling and crying and then it got quiet.

''I said to myself 'this is it'. Then I realized I was OK and I could feel us sinking. Within moments there was boats next to us but it was dark and smoky inside. It was less than a minute before we could see daylight and people were getting out. We just got to the exits and we started to get everybody out."

Panero added, ''I thank the Lord and I thank the pilot that he managed to land the plane...It was a near death experience and I'm just so glad everyone managed to live through it.''

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Re: Plane Crashes in the Hudson River
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2009, 06:51:06 PM »
We just heard this on the tv news, very lucky passengers, It really a miracle, Thanks god they are all safe. thanks to the captain also a very brave man

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Re: Plane Crashes in the Hudson River -please merge or lock topic
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2009, 08:49:48 PM »
Capt Sullenberger was very quick in deciding to turn the plane against a wind gush to lessen the speed of 280 km/hour so it was able to land softly like gliding on the water. This manuever is seldom practiced, it was a perfect timing because some machines explodes if the impact on the water is strong or the waves are high.  Pasalamat sila sa Kahitas-an :D

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Re: Plane Crashes in Hudson River NY
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2009, 03:29:39 AM »
Minus minusan unta sa government ang population anang canadian geese kay grabeh millions man sad madamage anang mga langgama.As in dagko gyud na siya nga bird kay daghan na diri duol sa amua sa lake tae pay imo maglibog kag asa ka molakaw tagbaw tag likay likay daplin sa lake kay puno anang ilang iti diay di tae.I like canadian geese kay pretty pero ingon ana makajeorpadize sa atong safety dapat gyud i control ang population ana nila.Di raba sad ka pwede makapusil anang canadian geese kung di hunting season ana nila kay na dagko gyud ug fine ug mapreso pa siguro ka.Because of these nuisance bird airline industry have millions of damage every year.

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Re: Plane Crashes in Hudson River NY
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2009, 03:52:02 AM »
Kining canadian geese pasoroya na sa Bohol, dili ba bibo na sila bohatong polotan!

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