Whats next? terroist beavers?

 

 

 

http://caribooponderer.wordpress.com/20 ... nadian-eh/

 

 

 

...and to the dweeb who tried to make a joke about muslim birds, I pity you.

 

:lol: Damn beavers.

 

Whats up Hermon?

 

(Its el knight)

 

Terroist birds.

 

I've never saw the day this would happen.

 

Whats next? terroist beavers?

 

Terrorist termites.

 

 

 

That is such siggy material. :lol:

Jesus Christ, how does no one die in a plane crash.

 

Boeing kicks [wagon], that's why!

 

...except for the fact that it was an Airbus.

 

 

 

Anyways... about one minute after takeoff, the pilot reported a "double bird strike" and asked to return to LaGuardia. He was re-directed to a smaller airport, but didn't end up landing there, for unknown circumstances. Likely because he was losing altitude too fast, due to both engines being without power.

 

If anyone's really curious, you'll find the following two links interesting...

 

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1 ... A/tracklog

 

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/USA1 ... /KLGA/KLGA

 

 

 

For the type of plane (low wing, engines under-wing) the pilot (and co-pilot, I might add) did a marvelous job getting the plane down. Last entry says 153kts (176mph) at 300ft, which is slow for a fully loaded aircraft. So obviously the pilot knew what he was doing and was in full control of the aircraft, despite the loss of power... props again to him. :thumbup:

...except for the fact that it was an Airbus.

 

... And so does Airbus! YEAH!

 

 

 

Yeah, my bad. But all airplane manufacturers are generally awesome. To build such an amazingly safe machine.

This was an excellent landing by the pilot. Particularly when you consider the circumstances, the landing was very very good. Apparently some of the witnesses that saw the plane land were under the impression it was actually a seaplane because the landing was so good.

This was an excellent landing by the pilot. Particularly when you consider the circumstances, the landing was very very good. Apparently some of the witnesses that saw the plane land were under the impression it was actually a seaplane because the landing was so good.

 

 

 

I suppose that would be the best way to do it - come down as parallel as possible and land it like you're landing on a runway. That's what his training would have told him to do, and it might just have saved lives. :thumbup:

It was a planned landing. It did not "crash." The plane hit a flock of seagulls, and one of the engines on the wing blew up. The pilot believed he could not make it back to the airport, so he did the most plausible thing. They say he was flying very low to the ground along the river for quite some time, so obviously he was softening the landing as much as he could.

 

Oh, yea, an engine blew up. Much safer than a crash.

 

 

 

Lent: A380, man. A380.

... and no one got hurt.

 

One victim suffered two broken legs.

This was an excellent landing by the pilot. Particularly when you consider the circumstances, the landing was very very good. Apparently some of the witnesses that saw the plane land were under the impression it was actually a seaplane because the landing was so good.

 

 

 

I suppose that would be the best way to do it - come down as parallel as possible and land it like you're landing on a runway. That's what his training would have told him to do, and it might just have saved lives. :thumbup:

 

Yep, that's what would likely be done... except he probably got the plane as slow as possible before setting it down, something that isn't done when landing on a runway.

 

Also just found this info on the pilot:

 

The people aboard Flight 1549 were extremely lucky to have had Captain Chesley Sullenberger as their pilot.

 

 

 

Sullenberger is a former Air Force fighter pilot with 40 years flying experience, and has spent 29 years with US Airways. He is also a glider instructor, and founded the company Safety Reliability Methods, Inc.

 

 

 

He even reportedly waded through the 32 degree water flooding the plane twice to make sure everyone was out before he himself disembarked the aircraft.

 

 

 

Mr. Sullenberger is definately the pilot you'd want at the helm in such a terrible circumstance.

 

The sole fact the he is a glider pilot probably helped immensely in this instance, seeing as that's essentially what he was flying after the engines went out.

It was a planned landing. It did not "crash." The plane hit a flock of seagulls, and one of the engines on the wing blew up. The pilot believed he could not make it back to the airport, so he did the most plausible thing. They say he was flying very low to the ground along the river for quite some time, so obviously he was softening the landing as much as he could.

 

Oh, yea, an engine blew up. Much safer than a crash.

 

 

 

Lent: A380, man. A380.

 

 

 

When people say crash, they tend to picture a nosedive into the ground, or a fiery plane. Not a controlled situation, like it was yesterday.

When people say crash, they tend to picture a nosedive into the ground, or a fiery plane. Not a controlled situation, like it was yesterday.

 

 

 

A likely story, but isn't your name.... Dux? Is it possible you were related to the birds who committed the crime? I think we should take you in for questioning.

Impact still can and will kill.Like the end of the Guardian?Pretty realistic.Whats more its a plane,going MUCH faster than the human terminal velocity,I sure believe someone would have died from the impact.

 

There are a few things that prevented just that. First of all, the pilot obviously guided the plane down very slightly, gaining speed very slowly to lessen the impact. Second of all, they only had about a minute of lift/thrust. Third, planes are designed to direct the impact the the fuselage upon crash.

Jesus Christ, how does no one die in a plane crash.

 

Boeing kicks [wagon], that's why!

 

 

 

Go airplanes! I have to get hyped up because I'm going to be flying (alone) a lot next summer.

 

 

 

I'm scared :c

 

 

 

FYI it was airbus :D

[Which] Airline?

If the airplane wasn't PERFECTLY parallel to the river, say one wing was slightly higher up than the other, the airplane would have easily gone into a cartwheel at that speed. That pilot must have been cool as a cucumber at the time, major high five to him and the crew

 

:thumbup:

[Which] Airline?

 

 

 

U.S Airways

If the airplane wasn't PERFECTLY parallel to the river, say one wing was slightly higher up than the other, the airplane would have easily gone into a cartwheel at that speed. That pilot must have been cool as a cucumber at the time, major high five to him and the crew

 

:thumbup:

 

Yup, just like this.

It's quite interesting, I saw in the news this morning that stocks for US Airways and several other airlines actually went UP after the crash. I'm no economist, can anyone explain how that happened?

I read a little more up on the plane crash just now, and the left engine is missing from the plane meaning it fell off somewhere in the Hudson. I also found an interesting map showing the route the plane took before crashing into the river.

 

 

 

Wow something has been posted on tif from the news that I live a short drive away from! I'm practically a celebrity now. I'm amazed at how everybody was so surprised that everybody lived. I mean come on, planes are designed to create lift, and it was only a few hundred feet off the ground when the engines blew, so the "crash" wasn't going to be that bad. Still, kudos to the pilot for being chill enough to land an airbus in the Hudson.

Incredible job by the pilot, a true hero.

Hats off to the Pilots.

the pilot reported a "double bird strike"

 

 

 

lol, double bird strike :lol:

When people say crash, they tend to picture a nosedive into the ground, or a fiery plane. Not a controlled situation, like it was yesterday.

 

 

 

A likely story, but isn't your name.... Dux? Is it possible you were related to the birds who committed the crime? I think we should take you in for questioning.

 

 

 

Try. You can't catch me.

 

 

 

And my name is dux, or dux bellorum. latin. :).

 

but I like ducks too.

This is probably the only plane crash that you can actually make fun of considering the fact that the only casualties were a flock of geese.