Plane (Airbus?) crashed in Hudson River NY

[bardos]

See King5.com for live tv

Max.

[Goose]

Pilots did well to bring it down in one piece like that, very impressed!!

[CDTDAN]

Thats quite scary because I was on one of those a while ago...
(the tail looks like a painting )

[benwynn]

Wow!

Kudos to these pilots, this has got to be one of few water landings that hasnt turned into a disaster!

[Adamski]

From king5.com:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A US Airways pilot reported a "double bird strike" less than a minute after takeoff Thursday and was headed for an emergency landing in New Jersey when he ditched into the Hudson River, an air controllers union spokesman said.

The pilot of the Airbus 320 was climbing to 1,500 feet when he reported the bird strikes about 30 to 45 seconds after a normal takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, National Air Traffic Controllers Union spokesman Doug Church said. Church said the pilot apparently meant that birds had hit both of the plane's jet engines. When he reported the bird strike, the pilot asked to return to the ground immediately.

Church's account came from employees at the New York TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control Center) in Westbury, N.Y., which was handling the aircraft after its takeoff.

According to Church:

The controller then issued instructions to turn the aircraft back to LaGuardia, when the pilot, then over northern New Jersey, looked down, saw an airstrip and asked, "What airport is that?" The controller replied: "That's Teterboro." A smaller suburban airport near Newark that serves primarily commuter and private aviation. The pilot said he wanted to land there. The controller then gave instructions to divert the aircraft to Teterboro's Runway 1 for an emergency landing. That was the last transmission between the aircraft and the New York TRACON, Church said. At that point, the aircraft had reached about 5,000 feet, Church estimated. "There was no `mayday' or emergency distress signal from the plane's transponder during the entire episode, which lasted about five or six minutes," Church said.

[Florian_S]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Jan 16 2009, 09:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

....... this has got to be one of few water landings that hasnt turned into a disaster!

Yes, Apparently it is the first landing of a widebody airliner on water without suffering any casualties. A stunning piece of flying by the pilots!!

[d3fai13r]

QUOTE (Florian_S @ Jan 16 2009, 01:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Apparently it is the first landing of a widebody airliner on water without suffering any casualties.

probably not, because all A320 family is narrow body

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (d3fai13r @ Jan 16 2009, 02:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

probably not, because all A320 family is narrow body

Replace the word 'widebody' with 'large' and ity's fixed

Kudos to the pilots! Apparently 15 people are in hospital being treated for hypothermia and one stewardess had a fractured leg, but that's it.

[Njbb1995]

Thats remarkable well done pilots

[Alex]

Wow, very impressive job.

Alex

[pois0n]

And those people are walking on water too!!!

Magic!!

[Adamski]

QUOTE (njbb1995 @ Jan 16 2009, 03:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thats remarkable well done pilots

Looking at the simulated track, it looks lke the pilot flew down the course of the river for a fair while - presumably to avoid built up areas, as well as to make his eventual landing on something slightly softer. Pretty cool flying.

[jetscream]

WOW! great pilots

[Matthew]

Amazing flying

It makes a nice change to have a good result from a crash like this

Only minor/moderate injuries - an excellent outcome!

[Mark Richards]

Amazing the tools we have online today...

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1549

And then look at : http://www4.passur.com/lga.html and change the date and time to Jan 15 at 15:25 and you can watch it depart at 15:25:20 and if you click on it you can see the altitude changes and then the left turn and track down the river. Put to to 10x speed and watch how quickly the airspace is closed and the VFR aircraft tracking up the river at 1000 and what they must've thought as the stricken aircraft appeared in their 12 o'clock.

Some very lucky passengers on board and kudos to the crew.

Mark

[ardypilot]

Saw this on my RSS feeder headline, and thought, oh no- not another one!

Was amazed when I clicked the link and saw the shot of all the passengers standing on the wings with the door slides inflated, hopefully that image will boost any passengers' with phobias of air travels confidence, that not all crashes end in a ball of fire.

A big congrats to the pilot too, he obviously knew he stuff, and saved 155 lives yesterday

[ardypilot]

Security camera footage of the actual crash/landing has been uploaded: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-183256

[Timmo]

Did anyone see the TV3 (I think) piece from iTV which did a reconstruction using FSX and a JustFlight aircraft?

Ill see if I can find it

here we go!

http://www.3news.co.nz/Computer-simulation...61/Default.aspx

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Timmo @ Jan 18 2009, 07:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Did anyone see the TV3 (I think) piece from iTV which did a reconstruction using FSX and a JustFlight aircraft?

Ill see if I can find it

here we go!

http://www.3news.co.nz/Computer-simulation...61/Default.aspx

Thanks for the link, but IMHO I think it's total rubbish. Just a "sad" little cartoon for the severely imagination-challenged. For instance- the commentary says "he would have to bring the nose up *at the last moment* [all of which he did]". This wasn't modelled in the simulated flight ... so what was the point? The information given by the commentary was good (about keeping wings level to prevent cartwheeling and so on). I just find this "dumbing down" sort of visual effects inaccurate and pointless.

Over the years, I've seen news coverage deteriorate - where visual effects take precedence over facts. Can't even see a newsreader these day, without some sort of spinning logo in the background. Meldrew mode OFF

Can't detract from the actual flying though!

[dbcunnz]

When they took the plane out of the Hudson they ended up having to detour through East Rutherford NJ.
These roads were not made for planes.