US Airways A320 in the Hudson River.

[Thijs]

They had a experienced pilot.

CHESLEY B. "SULLY" SULLENBERGER, III, the pilot who saved 115
passengers by his skillful water landing in New York was a former USAF
Phantom pilot.

Extract from his Bio:-

U.S. AIR FORCE 1973 to 1980
F-4 PILOT
Overview: Flight Leader and Training Officer with experience in
Europe, Pacific and at Nellis AFB, serving as Blue Force Mission
Commander in Red Flag Exercises.

Full document can be found here.

http://safetyreliability.com/yahoo_site ... lenberger_" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Profile.317143407.doc

[Basman]

CHESLEY B. "SULLY" SULLENBERGER, III, the pilot who saved 115
passengers by his skillful water landing in New York was a former USAF
Phantom pilot.

Extract from his Bio:-

U.S. AIR FORCE 1973 to 1980
F-4 PILOT
Overview: Flight Leader and Training Officer with experience in
Europe, Pacific and at Nellis AFB, serving as Blue Force Mission
Commander in Red Flag Exercises.

Full document can be found here.

http://safetyreliability.com/yahoo_site" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... lenberger_
Profile.317143407.doc

Well that explains it all!

Bas

[jp 74]

Phantom Phlyers rule!!!

[Frank Mink]

Hi all,

According to the NTSB the subject A320-214 has registration: N106US.
c/n: 1044, d/d 08-02-99.

Greetz,
Frank Mink
Tristar Aviation

[SPL]

first video of this water landing via this link:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/3024 ... html?p=1,1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Groeten Martijn

[tva2]

U.S. Coast Guard video of the actual plane crash

approx. 2 minutes of elapsed time from the surveillance video you will see the plane ditching into the Hudson river.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/ ... crash.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video Credit and Copyright (c) 2009 USCG

@martijn : you were slightly ahead of time ...

[Bokkum]

first video of this water landing via this link:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/3024 ... html?p=1,1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you look close, you can see the concorde...

edit: for the second video you can't miss the concorde...

[patrick@tediek.com]

I heard today on the news that divers are looking for the engines.

[cHabu]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8q6XcCNSY[/youtube]

[tva2]

Plane ditching video from another vantage point ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/us ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video Credit and Copyright (c) 2009 New York Mayor's Office

[cHabu]

Don't know if this one has been posted before:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1232166872" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tva2]

Airplane hoisted ...


Image Credit and Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Appleton / The New York Times


Image Credit and Copyright (c) 2009 AP

[MainPower]

Have to say how surprised I am to see the plane still in one piece ... considering the impact on the water.

[Leonvanos]

Is all the damage a result of the landing on the water, or is it the riversoil that did this kind of damage ???

[SPL]

Maybe also damage due to the riverboats, holding the aircraft?


Groeten Martijn