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US Airway plane crashes into the Hudson River

The motors on those types of planes are generally intended to seperate from the wings, to prevent their "scooping" from pulling the fuselage into the water.
The hijacked A-300 crashing off that beach in the Caribbean had this occur.
 
OT response to Tricky: I call spiders "bugs" just to make Bob twitchy (he's picky about that sort of thing). :D
 
I Ratant said:
The motors on those types of planes are generally intended to seperate from the wings, to prevent their "scooping" from pulling the fuselage into the water.
The hijacked A-300 crashing off that beach in the Caribbean had this occur.
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Caribbean? I thought it was somewhere around Africa?
 
This could have gone in sooooo many bad ways. It could have crashed into a skyscraper. It could have crashed at LaGuardia. It could have broken apart in the water and all the passengers could have drowned.

NYC needs more amazing stories like this. This pilot is a hero and I wanna shake his hand.
 
I Ratant said:
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Could be... it's foggy inside the headbone right now, and getting worse as time goes by.
Canary Islands?
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Just Googled it. It was indeed in Africa, off the coast of the Comoros islands.

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Eta: The plane was a Boeing 767, but I assume we are talking about the same event?
 
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I'm expecting video's of the ditch in the next few days. That is, expecting tourist on top of the Empire or Rockefeller having their cams turned on at the time the plane came into view.
 
It's amazing how many comments on news sites that I have seen, whereby the people adding their comments (or rather ignorant postings) claim that a flock of birds cannot cause engines to malfunction (flame-out) and therefore there is something odd about the whole thing - que conspiracy.

A water landing is very dangerous, the pilots did a great job in ensuring that the aircraft entered the water with the most minimal speed thereby minimising the chances of the fuselage breaking up and maximising the chances of passengers (and cabin crew) getting out.

Patricio Elicer - Anyone who has ever looked at engine mounting bolts (either directly or through drawings of that wing section) will think blimey there isn't much holding the damn thing on the wing! This is for a reason. You don't want contact with the engine causing wing damage. Let the engine "fall" off. In this case the wings would have contributed to buoyancy thereby giving the passengers more time to evacuate.
 
The sole casualty with the two broken legs!
If she was properly strapped in, how she do that?
 
Sunstealer said:
Patricio Elicer - Anyone who has ever looked at engine mounting bolts (either directly or through drawings of that wing section) will think blimey there isn't much holding the damn thing on the wing! This is for a reason. You don't want contact with the engine causing wing damage. Let the engine "fall" off. In this case the wings would have contributed to buoyancy thereby giving the passengers more time to evacuate.
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I had certainly not paid enough attention to that detail.
 
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It's kind of odd that birds managed to take out both engines, but not too odd to hear about it. I'm sure that the likes of Alex Jones or some other kook will find some way to blame 'the Jews' or the government, but this is a real concern for many airports in terms of runway safety. . . .
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A flock of geese in the engines caused an AWACs plane to crash at Elemendorf AFB in 1995. All aboard died.
 
I Ratant said:
The motors on those types of planes are generally intended to seperate from the wings, to prevent their "scooping" from pulling the fuselage into the water.
The hijacked A-300 crashing off that beach in the Caribbean had this occur.
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If we're going to be picky about terminology and names,


They are "Engines", not motors
 
There was some speculation that a thin film of ice might have prevented the plane from somersaulting and breaking up. If true that is mighty fortunate. Though praise for the pilot is still in order. A former Air Force pilot from what I hear.
 
Talking heads and witnesses are thanking god and claiming "miracle" that no one was injured, completely ignoring the enormous skill of the very human pilot and that the sky ghost guided the birds (it that's what happened) into the engines.
 
That pilot is very, very good. That's one hell of a resume he has now. I mean, the thing is intact enough to still float. It's hard enough to land any plane on water, let alone a jetliner.

But those boat captains are damn good too. I mean, that's a quick rescue. Hats off all around.
 
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