Plane crashes into Hudson River

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.york.plane.crash/index.html

apparently, a flock of birds struck two of the engines.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/15/nyregion/15plane2-337.jpg

passengers waited on the wings to be rescued

i'm watching channel 7's live feed
http://www.abclocal.go.com/wabc/livenow?id=6606424

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[+4] - InfraBlue - 01/15/2009[img]http://content.glidesociety.com/image.aspx?id=dd2e56b9-b663-4080-9f2c-3b79850593ef[/img] Capt. C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, ex-Air Force F-4 pilot. Hero After he flawlessly...
[+3] - Nick Ashley - 01/15/2009What I find interesting about this story, is it broke first on the social networking site twitter.com. It is becoming more and more common for the first reports of big events coming first hand from...
[+3] - georgeob1 - 01/15/2009Well I only ditched one aircraft - a T2 trainer in Pensacola Bay - a long time ago: just me and the instructor in it - also a low altitude flameout, but we had enough time to get the flaps down and...
[+3] - Linkat - 01/16/2009This morning they said something along the lines about the impact of a bird on a plane when it is taking off. The impact of a 5 kg (12 pound) bird at 240 km/h (150 mph) equals that of a 1/2 ton...
[+3] - Linkat - 01/16/2009Here is a great article describing how this happens... http://www.livescience.com/technology/090115-jet-engine-bird-strikes.html
[+3] - sozobe - 01/17/2009Good article with details of what happened after the crash: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/nyregion/17flight.html I recognize one of the (fairly uncommon) names and the age is about right,...
[+3] - georgeob1 - 01/17/2009[quote="CalamityJane"] I was reading in the German papers that due to the lower wings of the Airbus, the plane was able to stay afloat longer. Boeing planes have their wings much ...
[+3] - Linkat - 01/21/2009I do support some animal organizations (especially my local no-kill animal shelter) - but to be honest PETA takes it to a whole new level. Many members are just plain insane. I mean really the...
[+3] - Robert Gentel - 01/21/2009Here is an interesting video with a flight simulation of this landing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7834499.stm It also has another water landing (real video) that shows why there's the need to...
[+2] - sozobe - 01/15/2009It's mightily, scarily cold here, to the point where going in the water could be lethal fast I imagine. Seems to be better there, but still cold. Looks like rescue stuff is happening quickly...

@Region Philbis,

Shit!!!

That's a substantial aircraft!

Where is the crash? (I know...the river...it's a long river..)

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@dlowan,

48th street, I think, it was said.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Manhattan!!!! Oh my.

Thank heavens the pilot managed to dump in the river.

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@dlowan,

It's mightily, scarily cold here, to the point where going in the water could be lethal fast I imagine. Seems to be better there, but still cold. Looks like rescue stuff is happening quickly though.

This says no deaths nor serious injuries reported (!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/plane_in_river

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This is within blocks of the Frying Pan. Glad I wasn't there today. Watching a plane crash into the river is not something I'd want to see.

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I'm totally amazed there were no fatalities

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Wow

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Yikes. Seems like a cool pilot..

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@Frank Apisa,

Frank Apisa wrote:

Watching a plane crash into the river is not something I'd want to see.

I, too, would prefer if it was one of those helicopters with investment bankers in them.

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@Thomas,

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It is a relief for once to see such a story and learn that no one was killed.

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What I find interesting about this story, is it broke first on the social networking site twitter.com. It is becoming more and more common for the first reports of big events coming first hand from the people living it.

Here is a picture taken by someone on a ferry going to rescue them:
http://twitpic.com/135xa

and here is a news article talking about all the first hand sources: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/15/plane-crashes-in-hudson-first-pictures-on-flickr-tumblr-twitpic/

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@Nick Ashley,

Nick Ashley wrote:

Here is a picture taken by someone on a ferry going to rescue them:
http://twitpic.com/135xa

Woah. Crazy.

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At least we know a "water landing" isn't lip service. I don't know how many successful water landings there have been.

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I'm imagining birds everywhere jumping for joy and celebrating..."Yeah, we got one, boys!"

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@Setanta,

I know. It's amazing that no one was seriously injured!

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My office sent around an all-points email saying no one from the company was on the plane. Man.

Plane crashes into Hudson River

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