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US Airways plane crashes in the Hudson river
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Right now on most major networks.
151 people on board.
Looks like the pilot put the plane down after hitting a flock of geese. It looks mostly intact and hasn't sunk yet.
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CNN
Current temp 20F in NYC
151 people on board.
Looks like the pilot put the plane down after hitting a flock of geese. It looks mostly intact and hasn't sunk yet.
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CNN
US Airways flight down in New York's Hudson River
Emergency officials are responding to a downed plane in the Hudson River in New York City, according to the city fire and police departments. The FAA confirmed US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 headed from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, was down in the river following a failed takeoff. The U.S. Coast Guard said units were also responding, and a ferry on site was dropping life jackets into the water.
The plane approached the water at a gradual angle and made a big splash, according to a witness watching from an office building.
"It wasn't going particularly fast. It was a slow contact with the water that it made," the witness, Ben VonKlemperer, told CNN.
MSNBC wrote:Govt official says both engines disabled by birds
Current temp 20F in NYC
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DAMN TERRORIST BIRDS!
Definitely.
Fuck didn't even think about that, well at least leo will die so that Kate and her nice fat titties can survive.
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Yeah, sounds like the pilot pulled off an emergency water landing?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
No one ever thinks that will happen. Especially when not flying over the ocean. But I'm betting it was the best place to land this sucker, for sure.
Finally you get to use those damn cushions! I bet everyone was like "Fuck what was that saftey lecture FUCK FUCK!"
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It is hard to swim in full clothes with shoes on. Try it sometime. I can only imagine what it's like in water that's that cold.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/live/?aid=37657434&vid=30522094
Sounds like everyone survived. Looks like there are lots of boats out there doing rescue and so on.
Those slide thingies that go out over the wings inflate so hopefully they can get on those and out of the water.
Water landing sucks for getting out of the plane, but it had to be 10000 times easier to set that fatass plane down on a wide river rather than uneven ground with trees and shit on it
Also I hope there were no puppies or cats in the cargo hold
To be honest, where they went down is probably one of the better places to do so. It's not like they're in the middle of the Atlantic - they went down right on the mouth of the Hudson River. They had NYPD patrol boats, NYFD fireboats, and a Staten Island Ferry providing support within minutes, I bet.
I kind of doubt anyone boarded the plane in a survival suit, yeah. :P
Reports are a ferry went towards it as soon as it hit the water and was there in 4 minutes or so.
Current temp in NY is about 20 degrees.
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That's very true, but minutes can still be an eternity in cold water. Especially since most people are wearing cotton clothing and that's pretty much the worst type of fabric in a survival situation due to the fact that it soaks up ridiculous amounts of water. Not only does it weigh more in the water and make it difficult to swim, when you get out it's retaining water so you're still in danger of hypothermia.
It is very fortunate it happened where it did, though.
Man that Pilot should be in a parade by tomorrow!
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The weather's cold, but not intolerable here, and it looks like nobody is floundering around in the water. So that's a bullet dodged. And where they crashed has a marina right near it, so I'm sure they'll be rescued in short order.
Allah Quackbar.
In this day and age of the internet and fast reporting they should have the parade set up by 5pm today :P
If everyone's alive that's a wonderful lucky stroke though.
Bloody birds.
The beauty is is that the plane is pretty much floating in the water, from the videos I'm seeing it looks like everyone can get out without actually having to go right into the water, they can literally walk on the wing and get onto a boat.
They do test engines by shooting birds at them...
In case you have to kick a terrorist into the jet engine you wouldn't be able to do with with a mesh there.
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man this must be the funnest job ever
I would guess that it reduces airflow or baffles the air too much, especially if you made the mesh small enough so that a bird would bounce off rather than go through it.
I would assume most of them will get a jolt of adrenaline and that should boost their heart rate and keep them warm enough as long as they make it out of the water soon enough. As long as everyone makes it out of the water within an hour or two they should be alright, allthough Im sure some will require hospitalization if they get stuck soaking wet.
I'm used to hearing about snowmobilers (not snow machines, you fucking Alaskan inbreds) falling through the frozen lakes in Minnesota.
With the air a jet engine moves it'd probably do little but chop the bird into little cubes before sucking them into the engine anyway
Actually the mesh would just get sucked in with the thing if it were impacted. And then it would likely fail far more catastrophically than if there were no mesh at all. A bird is pretty damned soft compared to metal, and one bird by itself will in the vast majority of cases just get blenderized and go out the other side. If you hit a whole flock, though, that's just too much crap and you clog and jam up your blender.
The inflatable bail-out ramps also act as life rafts. Unless something got fucked up, no one should have to swim.