US Airways Plane in the Hudson River (Anniversary)

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What was the time when the plane hit the water? None of the stories I've seen have reported this and I've not heard it from any of the TV coverage.

 

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According to an eyewitness, it took the first ferry about "four minutes" to get to the plane.

That's amazing.

 

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According to NBC, it took off at 3:26 and landed in the water at 3:32.

 

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That's gonna be one massive cleanup in the Hudson, too.

 

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A cloud appears above your head;
A beam of light comes shining down on you,
Shining down on you.
The cloud is moving nearer still.
Aurora borealis comes in view;
Aurora comes in view.

Oh wait - they hit a flock of geese - not seagulls.

Nevermind.

 

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When I was a co-op student during college at Martin Marietta in New Orleans, a Taca Airlines jet had to make an emergency landing on the property there. It was a monstrous thunderstorm, and the pilot said both engines flamed out multiple times before he had to put the plane down. Luckily, the facility was a former airplane manufacturing plant (it builds the external tanks for the Space Shuttle now), so there was lots of room behind a levee for it to land. Miraculously, he made a rare emergency landing without incident and without benefit of a runway. (At the time it was reported as the first-ever, but I have my doubts about that just based on the millions of takeoffs and landings throughout commercial aviation history, but still ...) Unbelievable day when that story started going around the plant.

They wound up changing out both engines, stripping everything out of the plane and clearing off a former runway of traffic signs (they were all just roads on the facility then) and taking that son-of-a-bitch right off out of the middle of the plant. Everybody was out there watching that day and we were worried about a bridge that was fairly close to the end of the property. That thing just jumped right out of there. That was unbelievable, too.

Hopefully, the end result in this case is just as fortunate for all onboard.

 

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I was doubting that everyone could have gotten out, but when you look at this picture, I think maybe they did.

A miracle.

 

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NBC-NY reporting crew members believe everyone got off the plane safely!

 

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Hell, the jet fuel probably cleaned up the Hudson.

 

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Someone, my friends, just won a breaking news photograph award. That is outstanding.

 

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And again, looking a the first footage - never sank, never broke up.
Perfect conditions for those folks to survive.

 

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Sometimes a crash helps your standing.

This one will.

The PR the pilot and crew will bring the company is incredible.