DC--> NY plane crash?

anyone heard anything?

CNN has this:

US Airways flight 1549 goes down in Hudson River

bird strike, apparently

yeah, not DC --> NY

took off from LGA

NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Click to enlarge
CBS

1 of 1
Close

numSlides of totalImages A U.S. Airways airplane has crashed into the Hudson River, CBS 2 has learned. The plane appears to be in one piece and passengers are being evaucated by rescue teams.

Officials tell CBS 2 the airplane is Flight 1549, an Airbus 380 that took off from La Guardia Aiport. There are reports that there were about 60 people on board.

There is no word on injuries to passengers.

The plane is floating upright in the water near the USS Intrepid.

NY Times:

Watercraft are converging on a USAirways plane that is half-submerged in the Hudson River off the West 50’s of Manhattan.

According to Channel 4 television news, the plane apparently took off from LaGuardia Airport and was bound for Charlotte, N.C. and had 146 passengers and 5 crew members. The plane, according to the news report, may have hit a flock of birds. The pilot tried to return to the airport when the plane fell into the Hudson.

Television reports show several ferry boats right around where the plane is mostly submerged in the water.

One witness interviewed by Channel 4 said he saw the plane decending steadily without its landing gear down.

the water is very very cold.

srsly

Can you imagine?

Here's a dumb question: How deep is the Hudson?

yeah, if you dont believe me, check out for yourself

oh damn!

zeno, are you liveblogging from the crashsite?

It just dipped below.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/58432/original.jpg

lol dont worry people just walked out the wings onto waiting ferries

Alternate ending to The Dark Knight

lucky people

That is just super fucked up.

...that got onto the wings first, i mean

its still a lil above water btw - im watching ny1

MSNBC is saying its all the way under.

pilot gets props for a nice landing

Chinatown bus roolz

dude i can see it on the tv

how buoyant is an african swallow airbus A320

I honestly can't recall the last time I saw any geese -- Canadian or otherwise -- flyin' around Manhattan, but fuck do i know.

http://static.10gen.com/alleyinsider.com/~~/f?id=496fa35630b7d980006b4519&maxX=600&maxY=800

so you are saying it is terrorists or aliens, then?

wow!

btw i hate these little planes and have wondered abt hitting flocks of birds before

all the channels im on dont show a plane so i think it's submerged

should have took that thing down on the westside hwy

it was a Charlotte-bound flight

MSNBC appears to be wrong, unless CNN and NY1's video is old

btw how the fuck would a FLOCK OF BRDS take down a plane?

this is like one of those things that they always prepare you for before takeoff and people are like, lol whatever this never happens

ny1 is showing the nose of the plane still above water it says "live"

^omg yeah xp

an A320 is not a little plane

MSNBC wrong?? SURELY YOU JEST, SIR!

Who knows -- it's one of those news events where people are just blathering on to fill up air-time until actual statistics come in.

http://i39.tinypic.com/3bm2g.jpg

if they are sucked into the engine, very easily.

xpost

cnn, fox news, msnbc, cnbc all show (don't show) it submerged

the nose and tail of the plane are still above water, but the view may be obstructed by boats

if things were so fucked that the pilot couldn't get to newark or back to lga, then it's a pretty good job putting it down in the river rather than in manhattan

eye witness is saying the plane landed just like it would on a runway except ON THE WATER

i hope everyones ok! it would suck to be the single fatality

they teach the flight attendants Ditching procedure, if they are well trained, and the plane didnt get unerwatewr till now, most people should be saved

the nose is hard to see cause its surrounded by boats

"it would suck to be the single fatality"

The current live shot on MSNBC is now too far back to tell. Whatevs. I just see boats at this point.

It's like saying there's won't be another earthquake, because lightning never strikes twice in the same place. So yeah, I think we're square.

― mose def (kenan), Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually no because earthquakes happening in the same place aren't independent statistical events, neither are lightning strikes for that matter (i think). what it's most like is "betting on black 'cause red has come up seven times in a row." / pedantic

Otm; lightning striking somewhere is obv indication that that place is more likely to be struck by lightning again in the future than a random other place. The difference may or may not be slim though.

...that's what ned said

Actually it was my colleague who said it! And I really wanted to say to him "I don't think that's quite right" but dude was waiting to fly so I thought better of it. He made it back OK.

Isn't it great to hear about someone (with a splendid name) using their skill and competence to achieve something?
Ryan, Leeds, UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7887555.stm

I'm guessing all Americans are asleep but damn.

random...

feel bad for buffalo too, good city

shit

whoa i am from upstate and have a lot of friends who go to university @ buffalo...need to check this out :/

i mean i'm sure everything is OK but i'm sure it's a big deal around there right now

"The house was already flattened. There was no house, just a pile of rubbish and still burning," he said.

Americans don't say "rubbish", bad BBC.

Just... horrible.

When did it stop being the convention to mention the subject of terrorism (and/or 9/11, and it's lack of relevance) in any aircraft-related incident?

library has fox news on, and the anchor was referring to the irony (more synchrony imo) of one of the dead passengers being the widow of a 9/11 victim on her way to buffalo to present an award in his name

yikes. hope its no one horseshoe knows.

sorry, is that insensitive? you know what i mean.

Americans don't say "rubbish", bad BBC.

Kanye...lied?

Americans don't say "rubbish", bad BBC.

Everywhere else quotes him as saying 'rubble'.

Eckert was traveling to Buffalo for a weekend celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday. She also had planned to take part in presentation of a scholarship award at Canisius High School that she established in honor of her late husband.

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/578061.html

Another victim of note -- Alison des Forges:

The death was confirmed by Human Rights Watch, the New York-based advocacy group where Dr. Des Forges, who lived in Buffalo, served as senior adviser for its Africa division.

Dr. Des Forges spent four years interviewing organizers and victims of the Rwandan genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of people died. She testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in Arusha, Tanzania, and expert panels convened by the United Nations and what is now the African Union, as well as the French and Belgian legislatures and the United States Congress.

The MacArthur Foundation recognized her work with a $375,000 “genius” grant in 1999. Her book “Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda,” published that year, was considered one of the most authoritative accounts of the genocide.

NEW YORK – A publicist says two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a Buffalo, New York, house.

Publicist Sanford Brokaw identifies the band members as Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett.

In a statement Mangione, said: "I'm in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy."

And you shouldn't laugh at what comes up at :20.

amzing

super great + informative article in vanity fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/06/us_airways200906?currentPage=1

answers a lot of (dumb) questions like the one i posed very early in this thread about why planes could not be devised to withstand bird strikes. in fact, says the article, they have been, just not for the weight of canadian geese, which is probably impossible. anywho, the article contains many words on the nuts and bolts of plane engineering and bird strikes and landing with no engines but it all circles back very well to the hudson river landing. very informative, very entertaining.

it's very historical, and also contains a cool aside about a pilot flying a commercial plane who ran out of fuel in the middle of the night over the atlantic but was able to glide the plane onto an airport on some island

it also says that every person who has tried to land at la guardia in simulations of flight 1549 has failed

this picture still gives me chills errytime

http://i39.tinypic.com/3bm2g.jpg

by the same guy in the same magazine on a similar subject, also compelling

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/air_crash200901

Much about those particular geese will never be known—for instance, where they came from, and where they were headed, and why

Call yourself an investigative journalist?

But their legacy remains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_5eiYn0D0&feature=player_embedded

Well, there ya go:

"He doesn't know I'm gonna say this, but I had joked the other day that ... the hero sex really helps a 20-year-old marriage," The Associated Press reported Mrs Sullenberger as saying.

To which Mr Sullenberger added: "Rock star sex."

it's gonna suck next time a plane loses control within sight of a river and everyone just expects the pilot can cruise on down without too much trouble.

lol @ 3:12 he says "Nice view of the Hudson today." Oh, just wait.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ends his 30 year career today by retiring.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/03/BAJK1CA7KE.DTL&tsp=1

Looking forward to seeing the Sully movie this weekend, although I'm a bit baffled by the conceit of the trailer - I don't remember anyone doubting Sully's competence at the time? The trailer reminded me of the movie FLIGHT from 2012, Denzel Washington played a pilot that made a similarly insane emergency landing but he was loaded on coke and booze and subsequently investigated and arrested, it was a surprisingly emotional movie for me, really about alcoholism... anyway, has anyone seen Sully yet?

i hope there is a memorial to the geese

I was always curious about the guy who panicked and opened the rear door of the plane -- water rushed in, and the plane sank faster than it otherwise would have.

Does he go to the Flight 1549 passenger reunion functions? Are things tense when he's around? When Sully sees him, does he think, "Ugh, that fucking guy"?

i've long been curious to see what flappy bird thinks of the Sullenberger movie tbh

I just hope Clint treats the geese with some dignity

closing scene: sully, alone in park, feeding bread to some geese. he stays until they fly off in v-formation. one of them has eaten to much of sully's bread, though, and has to perform an emergency landing...on land. it bellies onto the grass, but is miraculously ok. sully tips his captain's hat, which he's still wearing. roll credits

anyway, has anyone seen Sully yet?

― flappy bird, Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:52 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey fitzy ya seen sully yet

your flappant remarks are sullying this thread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrtxU9MWcAAmDbw.jpg

whered that pic go

wb sully

#10YearChallenge
#2009vs2019

I was always curious about the guy who panicked and opened the rear door of the plane -- water rushed in, and the plane sank faster than it otherwise would have.

Does he go to the Flight 1549 passenger reunion functions? Are things tense when he's around? When Sully sees him, does he think, "Ugh, that fucking guy"?

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, September 7, 2016 3:47 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still wonder about this guy, and if he's allowed at the reunions, and if Sully occasionally thinks to himself, "If that jerk hadn't opened the door..."

ten years!

i thought the movie was OK fwiw