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USAirways flight goes down in the hudson river
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01-15-2009, 04:38 PM | #3 |
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+1 Amazing.
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01-15-2009, 04:42 PM | #4 |
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What makes it worse is almost all bird strikes happen right after departure or on final approach meaning you are in close proximity to the ground. Very good pilotS, handled it the way they should. Bravo.
This dude is like 'I thought it was a terrorist attack' GEEEEEEZ everything is a terrorist attack, the birds were trained by Al Qaeda and Hamas for suicidal missions. |
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just confirmed everyone got off okay!
that pilot made an incredible landing.
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related to this flight, looks like the pilots made BRILLIANT decisions in this accident. he took off, sucked in some birds, then steered the plane down the river to ditch. if he didn't do that, he would have hit densely populated land areas in NYC. big ups to the pilots |
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Huge props to these pilots! I have encountered a bird strike while doing my flight training as well. On my departure roll in a C172, aircraft was vibrating and bloody but I made it around the pattern without an issue. I hope they keep their jobs, awesome work to the Cactus crew!
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I smacked a seagull with the prop on the downstroke, luckily that threw the bird to the runway instead of over the windscreen.
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Anyway, congratulations to the pilots who saved everyone on that flight. |
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I find the reporting a bit OTT though, this plane has been floating for 20 minutes with vessels around it, and it was suggested people were still inside? |
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well it's simple really...with a jet airplane flying forward around 200KIAS towards a bird, that bird is actually headed towards the plane REALLY fast. now you add a jet engine rotating around 26,000RPM + a bird headed at it at 200+mph = the problem is obvious.
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