A320 lands in the Hudson River, New York

[The Black Duke]

The FAA have now said that all the people on board have got of safe.

[Captain Cadillac]

The BBC is wrong, it allegedly touched down right around 50th st, it's not 40 blocks south of there, not even close.

[RDE]

People on board said:

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

Interesting.



BBC News:

"Bird strikes disabled two of the plane's engines."

Two out of two then.



Reuters:

"A small aircraft with more than a dozen people on board..."

Is this a new system of counting? One, two, three, many?

Edited by RDE on Thursday 15th January 22:03

[Captain Cadillac]

Water Temp in Hudson River right now is 41F, river is not iced over yet (As cold as it is that's kind of surprising).

[Pesty]

ultegra said:

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

Not many of those on the wing appear to have life vests on, which seems a little strange.

[tinman0]

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

[castrolcraig]

Muntu said:

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

whers it said that??

[sa_20v]

castrolcraig said:

Muntu said:

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

whers it said that??

That's accurate - was on the live feed about 30 mins ago.

[mybrainhurts]

I am flying, I am flying,
Like a bird cross the sky.
I am flying, passing high clouds,
To be with you, to be free.

Ohhhh...BUGGER

I am sailing, I am sailing,
Home again cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
To be near you, to be free.

[dave_s13]

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

[VxDuncan]

"everybody off the plane and accounted for" HOW? Bloody hell the pilots deserve some serious respec'

[dave_s13]

VxDuncan said:

"everybody off the plane and accounted for" HOW? Bloody hell the pilots deserve some serious respec'

They do. They should also all buy lottery tickets this weekend.

[Zad]

To anyone interested, this was the flight/ditch path of the aircraft: http://fboweb.com/kml/AWE1549.kml (opens in Google Earth). Must have ditched pretty much opposite where the Concorde barge is/was.

To quote an Americanism, utterly awesome. Pres Bush might like to ponder that it was good engineering and flying that saved those lives, not prayers.

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.

[navier_stokes]

The tugs have done an awesome job, it was pretty much sunk a minute ago, not its fully afloat and off back to dry land!

[Badgerboy]

A bloody good ditch! Certainly helped by the river being quite still. Usually a wingtip will clip the water and the airframe will roll and breakup. The last time I saw an airliner sized aircraft ditch in one piece was a Nimrod.

Well looks like they get to use the liferafts and lifevests. Normally they only end up being used as markers by spotter aircraft to find out where the crash site was.

[tinman0]

The good news - everyone survived.

The bad news - US Airways free sucking up vouchers are as mean as hell.

[B17NNS]

thehawk said:

looks almost surreal.

Just spoke to my mate in NY who said the same thing. he watched it float past his office window.

[audidoody]

OK OK I'll pay attention to the safety briefings from now on ....

[castrolcraig]

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

[Nolar Dog]

That is amazing.

• Gobsmacked*