USAIrways Plane Crashes In Hudson River
Huffington Post | January 15, 2009 03:41 PM
Developing….
Just after 3:30 pm Thursday MSNBC broke into regular coverage to show live shots of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River, with people standing on the wings.
Flight 1549 took off from Laguardia on it’s way to Charlotte at 3:26 pm.
People were seen standing on the wings and getting onto ferries.
The plane appeared wholly intact.
The pilot reported a possible bird attack shortly after takeover. 164 passengers and 5 crew members were onboard, MSNBC reports.
There were reports the pilot went into a flock of geese.
Video to come shortly.
The weather is very cold but clear.
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US Airways website had the plane’s status, as of 4:05, as “departed”:
Before, left, after, right, the fuselage has sunk:
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Wow, good job on the landing. The plane looks in good shape so the pilot must have feathered it in with only two engines. Happy news for a change. 🙂
Fabulous job … let’s change the heading. This plane did not crash – it made a successful and unscheduled landing on the Hudson River!
The news is using this as an excuse to whip up “did it remind you of 9/11” crap … the pilot did an absolutely amazing job of bringing this plane down totally controlled. It was not a crash…it was a textbook controlled landing.
Let’s give the pilot and first officer credit for a truly awesome job of flying and setting it down safely!
He did feather it in with NO engines! Both engines hit by geese they think – they coasted/surfed it down landing mid-belly then dropping the nose down last. Popped the doors and evacuated on the chutes.
Temp is 11 degrees today and snowing….ick.
B-eautiful!!!!
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Yes, they did a fantastic job of bringing it down.. and most importantly all passengers & crew are safe! (Probably terrified but at least not hurt.)
Kudos to those pilots! 🙂
These are very lucky people.
Snowflake shapes
At about the two minute mark you can see US Air Flight 1549 skid into the Hudson. Then, you can see the passengers climb out onto the wings. This video is 10 minutes long. Actual video of Flight 1549 skidding into the Hudson.
That was a brave decision taken by the pilot