A320 lands in the Hudson River, New York

[Chrisgr31]

Presumably lucky it didn't hit any of the ferries etc as it landed.

I would assume landing on a river is beter than landing on sea as less waves?

However still a damned good job.

[adam85]

castrolcraig said:

anyone else getting annoyed with the endless replays of the coolio lookylikey leaping about like hes won the lottery.....

Fair play, I would be running naked up and down the street if I survived that...

[BigBen]

dave_s13 said:

tinman0 said:

How long before we see the crash landing from a mobile phone? Place your bets now.

I bet you 50 virtual pounds nobody got it.

It would've been on telly by now, surely?

Edited by dave_s13 on Thursday 15th January 22:08

Not so sure, the cameraman could have been in any of a huge number of locations so unable to get it to a news outlet yet. Plus you would also want to maximise your profit for the film so speak to several agencies.

Ben

[dave_s13]

BigBen said:

dave_s13 said:

tinman0 said:

How long before we see the crash landing from a mobile phone? Place your bets now.

I bet you 50 virtual pounds nobody got it.

It would've been on telly by now, surely?

Edited by dave_s13 on Thursday 15th January 22:08

Not so sure, the cameraman could have been in any of a huge number of locations so unable to get it to a news outlet yet. Plus you would also want to maximise your profit for the film so speak to several agencies.

Ben

10 virtual pounds then.

[Captain Cadillac]

Zad said:

There probably would have been a smell of smoke/fuel in the cabin as the aircon units would be pumping in air from outside the plane.

From what they were saying on pPrune, the A320 has a ditching button, it closes the air con intakes and the like.

The plane is now pretty much underwater right now from what I am seeing, just the tip of the tail showing.

[bigTee]

thank god all are accounted for.

hats off to the crew.

[Jonny671]

Pretty good for the crew to get it down on the water, especially after reading on that pPrune website about how difficult it is.

[paddyhasneeds]

Did I really just see someone holding a small model plane to illustrate to viewers what an Airbus looks like?!

The Sky woman earlier asking a former pilot "What sort of bird do you think it was, a Goose, a Seagull"

FFS.

[mybrainhurts]

paddyhasneeds said:

Did I really just see someone holding a small model plane to illustrate to viewers what an Airbus looks like?!

The Sky woman earlier asking a former pilot "What sort of bird do you think it was, a Goose, a Seagull"

FFS.

I blame the Norwegian Blue...

[bumblebee]

RDE said:

People on board said:

"We heard a loud bang, the whole plane shook and immediately we could smell smoke and fire."

I'm not joking about this - *if* it was a birdstrike, what they could smell was more than likely a hint of roast goose/burnt feathers.

A few years back I had a relatively minor bird-strike on approach in to Venice where we almost certainly ingested a small number of sparrow/swift sized birds and there was a distinct smell of cooked chicken on the flight deck.

[mattley]

Captain Cadillac said:

What's really lucky for them is that the plane landed in a very busy part of the river, it basically landed in the middle of the NY Waterway ferry line.

Not sure it was blind luck, awesome piloting seems to have taken a part.

[Norbury90]

Massive respect to the pilot.

[_Dan_]

BBC Website - Onlooker said:

It made a pretty big splash when it landed on the water

Really? Fancy that!

That's some quality reporting!

Good on the pilot, could have been a whole lot worse! There's not exactly a lot of places to land in that area, especially if you're flying away from the runway!

[sparks_E39]

fk me that's lucky, top piloting skills there.

[Nickyboy]

anonymous said:

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The pilots on those ferries are awesome, we used them to go between Liberty Harbor NJ & Manhatten, to dock at the piers they line up and come in slowly then ram it full throttle to keep against the ramp. None of this roping up malarky.

[Zad]

If it had had more altitude/power/inertia it could probably have landed at Newark, which isn't that far away.

[Captain Cadillac]

mattley said:

Captain Cadillac said:

What's really lucky for them is that the plane landed in a very busy part of the river, it basically landed in the middle of the NY Waterway ferry line.

Not sure it was blind luck, awesome piloting seems to have taken a part.

Agreed on the Piloting, this is the first EVER totally successful ditching of a Jet Airliner.

Anyhow, if you had to ditch on the water, that's the place to be located, right next to midtown Manhattan.

[Captain Cadillac]

Zad said:

If it had had more altitude/power/inertia it could probably have landed at Newark, which isn't that far away.

Based on how it turned compared to how they depart from LaGuardia, I would assume he was heading to Newark or trying to return to LaGuardia. Where the plane ditched is only about 5-6 miles from there but when you lose thrust at 3,000 feet that's quite the distance to cover I would think.

[Mojocvh]

Captain Cadillac said:

mattley said:

Captain Cadillac said:

What's really lucky for them is that the plane landed in a very busy part of the river, it basically landed in the middle of the NY Waterway ferry line.

Not sure it was blind luck, awesome piloting seems to have taken a part.

Agreed on the Piloting, this is the first EVER totally successful ditching of a Jet Airliner.

Anyhow, if you had to ditch on the water, that's the place to be located, right next to midtown Manhattan.

[Captain Cadillac]

Mojocvh said:

Captain Cadillac said:

mattley said:

Captain Cadillac said:

What's really lucky for them is that the plane landed in a very busy part of the river, it basically landed in the middle of the NY Waterway ferry line.

Not sure it was blind luck, awesome piloting seems to have taken a part.

Agreed on the Piloting, this is the first EVER totally successful ditching of a Jet Airliner.

Anyhow, if you had to ditch on the water, that's the place to be located, right next to midtown Manhattan.

Right in front of the Ferry Terminal!