US Airways Plane in the Hudson River (Anniversary)

Angola! · Jan 15, 2009

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schiezainc said:

YankeeFan said:

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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Someone, my friends, just won a breaking news photograph award. That is outstanding.
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I think that is a screengrab from a TV feed.

Simon_Cowbell · Jan 15, 2009

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Hopefully there will be video of the landing.

YankeeFan · Jan 15, 2009

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Del_B_Vista said:

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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Spent four years working for an airline.

The case you cite is famous. That one, the Aloha flight -- where the fuselage ripped open during flight -- and a few others are really legendary.

Dyno · Jan 15, 2009

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That is one amazing photo.

markvid · Jan 15, 2009

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I have a feeling NBC is about to get Howard Stern'd.

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 15, 2009

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schiezainc said:

YankeeFan said:

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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Someone, my friends, just won a breaking news photograph award. That is outstanding.
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Per the photo's URL ... it's the NY Times, of course. a guy with Reuters.

Simon_Cowbell · Jan 15, 2009

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I do believe this is the second time a flock of birds has brought down a jet in NY in 8 years

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 15, 2009

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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/plane-crashes-into-hudson-river/?hp

linotype · Jan 15, 2009

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A looking-ahead question to ponder. Exactly how does one remove an intact airplane from a river?

markvid · Jan 15, 2009

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2muchcoffeeman said:

schiezainc said:

YankeeFan said:

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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Someone, my friends, just won a breaking news photograph award. That is outstanding.
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Per the photo's URL ... it's the NY Times, of course. a guy with Reuters.
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Gary Hershorn/Reuters, according to the NYT.

markvid · Jan 15, 2009

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linotype said:

A looking-ahead question to ponder. Exactly how does one remove an intact airplane from a river?
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Make it flap the wings REALLY hard?

Small Town Guy · Jan 15, 2009

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will be crossing the GW shortly, not sure if I'll be able to see anything or not since it was near 50th street. There are so many ferries there, it's not too surprising they got there quickly, but still very very fortunate.

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