A320 lands in the Hudson River, New York

[castrolcraig]

y2blade said:

y2blade said:

amazing no one died what's the temperature there this time of year?

was watching it on CMM

Edited by y2blade on Thursday 15th January 21:40

i'll quote myself to answer my own question


-7 degs

-7 air temp, so god nows what its like in the water...

[y2blade]

castrolcraig said:

y2blade said:

y2blade said:

amazing no one died what's the temperature there this time of year?

was watching it on CMM

Edited by y2blade on Thursday 15th January 21:40

i'll quote myself to answer my own question


-7 degs

-7 air temp, so god nows what its like in the water...

brrrrrrrrrrlooooooooooooooody freezing

[Captain Cadillac]

polar_ben said:

See those buildings in the background?

I can see them from my house.

[mybrainhurts]

polar_ben said:

Blimey...

Didn't know Airbus made submarines...

[Extra 300 Driver]

Stunning, really stunning.

[holmzy]

The pilot deserves a medal, that must've taken some awesome flying to stop it breaking up on landing!

[ultegra]

First class get a liferaft whilst cattle class get wet socks.....

[JRM]

Watching it now, amazing

[anonymous-user]

I think it's being towed now.

[Captain Cadillac]

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.

It's all over the news here, local channels are nonstop and they have eyewitnesses being interviewed, usual nonsense.

[B16JUS]

el stovey said:

I think it's being towed now.

i think its the tide taking it

J

[anonymous-user]

Fox news is great with all the pundit comments.

[B17NNS]

I am sick and tired of all these mother fking fish on this mother fking plane

[john_p]

You can see on some of the videos just how fast the river is moving.

So, reckon someone filmed the water landing? Countdown to it arriving on Youtube.. just saw on pprune it got to about 4000'

[ultegra]

el stovey said:

Fox news is great with all the pundit comments.

The split a r s e commentator on the bbc is willing it to sink too.... sily cow.

[anonymous-user]

B16JUS said:

el stovey said:

I think it's being towed now.

i think its the tide taking it

J

I thought it looked like that red tug has a cable around it?

[BlueCello]

B17NNS said:

I am sick and tired of all these mother fking fish on this mother fking plane

[tinman0]

Munter said:

Was someone really clever here.

If they only opened the front doors. And the rear of the plane is heavy. It'll float because the front doors are over the water line.

Plan (In the operations manual)? Chance? Quick thinking?

Yeah, ok, your plane has just crashed landed on water. You thank your lucky stars that you are still alive. Do you:

a) think hmm, we're floating and we have enough time file to the front because the back of the plane will sink first
b) GET THAT DOOR OPEN RIGHT THIS MOMENT CAUSE I WANT OFF THIS GOD DAMN PLANE - DONT CARE ABOUT NO WATER CAUSE THERES A FERRY JUST OVER THERE HEADING OUR WAY

Now, a or b.

[thehawk]

Amazing photos, looks almost surreal.

[Muntu]

el stovey said:

B16JUS said:

el stovey said:

I think it's being towed now.

i think its the tide taking it

J

I thought it looked like that red tug has a cable around it?

Through, and under it apparently