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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
Holy smokes! CNN is reporting an airliner went down in the Hudson
after departing LaGuardia. I heard something about birdstrikes, but can't imagine a double engine failure due to that(?) They sure picked a cold day to go swimming... Hope everybody is ok... |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
On Jan 15, 4:01*pm, Kingfish wrote:
Holy smokes! CNN is reporting an airliner went down in the Hudson after departing LaGuardia. I heard something about birdstrikes, but can't imagine a double engine failure due to that(?) They sure picked a cold day to go swimming... Hope everybody is ok... CNN is reporting all 135 on board got off the plane (and didn't get wet!) Apparently a flock of geese got in the way soon after takeoff, and both engines sucked in birds. Damn the luck... |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
Kingfish wrote:
CNN is reporting all 135 on board got off the plane (and didn't get wet!) Apparently a flock of geese got in the way soon after takeoff, and both engines sucked in birds. Damn the luck... Depends how you choose to view it. I'd say their luck was pretty damn good! |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
"Shirl" wrote in message ... Kingfish wrote: CNN is reporting all 135 on board got off the plane (and didn't get wet!) Apparently a flock of geese got in the way soon after takeoff, and both engines sucked in birds. Damn the luck... Depends how you choose to view it. I'd say their luck was pretty damn good! Unless you're a goose than this was an atrocity. |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
On Jan 15, 4:45*pm, "Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote:
"Shirl" wrote in message ... Kingfish wrote: CNN is reporting all 135 on board got off the plane (and didn't get wet!) Apparently a flock of geese got in the way soon after takeoff, and both engines sucked in birds. Damn the luck... Depends how you choose to view it. I'd say their luck was pretty damn good! Unless you're a goose than this was an atrocity. There were no geese harmed. There was no atrocity. It's all a fabrication of the goose controlled government media, the mouthpiece of the Tri-goose Commission. |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
On Jan 15, 5:32*pm, Shirl wrote:
Kingfish wrote: CNN is reporting all 135 on board got off the plane (and didn't get wet!) Apparently a flock of geese got in the way soon after takeoff, and both engines sucked in birds. Damn the luck... Depends how you choose to view it. I'd say their luck was pretty damn good! Once, at general aviation speeds, we saw a flock of what seemed to be canada geese at constant bearing out our windscreen. Sailers say "Constant bearing means collision". We saw them with enough seconds in hand to reduce our rate of climb and got under them. If one is carefully looking out the window of a jet like this, would it be likely a flock (as opposed to a single bird) might be seen in time to modify the climb angle? I'm guessing after rotation the crew's attention is more inside the cockpit than outside, especially in the controlled airspace around major airports. It would be an interesting simulation in include flocks of geese near airports, wouldn't it? |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
1 of the passengers said something about seeing birds flying by before
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
On Jan 17, 2:54*pm, (Jeff none) wrote:
1 of the passengers said something about seeing birds flying by before the landing. Although the pilot did an excellent job I wouldn't call it a "landing", more like a ditching maybe? |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
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a wrote: Once, at general aviation speeds, we saw a flock of what seemed to be canada geese at constant bearing out our windscreen. Sailers say "Constant bearing means collision". We saw them with enough seconds in hand to reduce our rate of climb and got under them. Going under birds isn't advised, since when spooked, they often will dive for the ground. Much safer to go over them, since their rate of climb isn't that fast. John -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ |
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Airliner crashes into Hudson River after LGA departure
John
Your 100% correct. Saw a BIG bizzard here inTX just ahead of me and started to fly under him with plenty of clearance. When he saw me close he folded his wings and fell straight down and almost took my wing off when we colided. Fly over not under. Big John. ************************************************** ************************* On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:02:33 +0000 (UTC), (John Clear) wrote: In article , a wrote: Once, at general aviation speeds, we saw a flock of what seemed to be canada geese at constant bearing out our windscreen. Sailers say "Constant bearing means collision". We saw them with enough seconds in hand to reduce our rate of climb and got under them. Going under birds isn't advised, since when spooked, they often will dive for the ground. Much safer to go over them, since their rate of climb isn't that fast. John |
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