US Airways flight down in New York’s Hudson River
Emergency officials are responding to a downed plane in the Hudson River in New York City, according to the city fire and police departments. The FAA confirmed US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 headed from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, was down in the river following a failed takeoff. The U.S. Coast Guard said units were also responding, and a ferry on site was dropping life jackets into the water.
Source: CNN.com
I just heard, that the plane might be hit by a bird-strike during take-off.
By: Whiskey Delta - 5th February 2009 at 17:17
Here are the ATC tapes from the accident.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/1549.voice.recorder.tape/index.html
By: Gary Cain - 3rd February 2009 at 04:45
Here are some pictures as she was pulled out of the river.
By: Whiskey Delta - 3rd February 2009 at 01:23
Probably the quickest any jet has made it out of EWR in a long time.
By: steve rowell - 2nd February 2009 at 22:18
She’s out!!!
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=62246660.blog&csp=34
By: steve rowell - 31st January 2009 at 04:44
A FREE computer game is challenging players to become the next “Hero on the Hudson” by safely landing a virtual passenger jet.
The streamed game warns players that both jet engines are disabled, it is impossible to make it to an airport, and they must ditch in the Hudson River in a virtual version of the US Airways miracle landing on January 15.
“The fate of the passengers is in your hands,” reads an introductory page of the game available online at tastyplay.com.
Players then use left and right arrow keys to keep an animated jet parallel to the surface of the onscreen river as it makes an emergency descent with dark smoke billowing from its engines.
Level landings are rewarded with a banner proclaiming the player a hero as tiny figures representing passengers file onto the wings. Sloppy landings are met with the sight and sound of a sinking jet.
The pilot of the US Airways jet that ditched in icy waters off New York in real life was hailed as a hero for coolly saving 155 passengers and crew.
The former fighter pilot was lauded for smoothly ditching the jet belly-first onto the Hudson River.
The soft landing allowed passengers to safely escape from the stricken craft.
By: topspeed - 28th January 2009 at 14:04
Here is more about the Neva ditched plane; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners_grouped_by_year
All passengers survived.
By: steve rowell - 28th January 2009 at 11:22
I read a few days ago, that Sullenberger and the entire crew will be interviewed for a “60 Minutes” episode on February 8th.
I bet they were told too by the suits at US Air…he seems to shun publicity…as he said they were just doing what they were trained to do
By: fightingirish - 28th January 2009 at 10:19
I read a few days ago, that Sullenberger and the entire crew will be interviewed for a “60 Minutes” episode on February 8th.
By: steve rowell - 28th January 2009 at 08:08
Call me cynical, but I call that opportunistic money-grabbing :rolleyes:
“Opportunistic” or just grateful to be alive!!!
By: steve rowell - 27th January 2009 at 07:30
Aussie survivors tribute song to Sully…what do you think???
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24970466-5012974,00.html
By: Bmused55 - 26th January 2009 at 10:07
I heard the Pilot on the radio yesterday in an interview stating that they were just doing a job, one they are trained to do.
A very humble statement.
By: steve rowell - 24th January 2009 at 02:25
The left engine of a US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River was pulled from the water more than a week after the accident, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers.
“The engine has been lifted, put on a barge and is going to the place in New Jersey where the rest of the plane is,” said Mary Stavana, a spokeswoman for the Army command.
The engine, which was ripped from the fuselage during the emergency landing, was found this week by a team of divers in the riverbed at a site close to where the plane hit the river.
Investigators have reported finding “soft body” impacts in the jet’s other engine.
The evidence, also including a feather stuck on a wing, appeared to support the belief that the Airbus hit a dense flock of birds before losing power in both engines and crash-landing in New York’s Hudson River on January 15.
The rest of the plane was pulled out over the weekend, allowing recovery of the black box flight recorders, which strengthened evidence of a bird-plane collision.
The emergency landing of the Airbus A-320 was completed without loss of life, turning the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, into a national hero for having saved all 155 people onboard.
CBS Television said it would air the first public interview with Sullenberger on February 8 in its 60 Minutes program.
By: scotavia - 22nd January 2009 at 10:06
Active bird control
As one of many aspects of my former work as an air traffic control assistant I carried out thousands of hours on the airfield doing active bird control.
RAF Kinloss suffered a terrible fatal take off birdstrike accident and as a result of the post accident recommendations the bird control team became full time covering all operational hours at Kinloss.
One part of the service included watching approach and departure paths, records of bird activity were kept, a pattern of bird movement tracked. This included large skeins of geese and birds feeding on the tidal estuary.
During the five years of my time in charge of the bird control unit we had no damage caused by birdstrikes. Air traffic relayed our warnings to aircraft resulting in take off delays, overshoots and circuit training was avoided during the high risk times.
Pioneering work in bird control came from the Dutch air force, in the Uk courses have been organised by MAFF.
To get the best out of the bird control system you need dedicated keen operatives and an air traffic system to relay warnings plus an airport authority who fully understand that it is not a part time job done by a person who skives inside the office and dashes outside to fire off a few shellcrackers
every hour.
I wonder if a proper study of bird activity has ever been done at New York airports?
By: steve rowell - 22nd January 2009 at 05:18
Some of the passengers are being interviewed on the Ellen Degeneres show 22nd
By: Newforest - 20th January 2009 at 21:41
There was and is.
I’m under the impression the investigation is based on the CFM engine. The cowling on this US bird seems to indicate it have IAE engines?
No, this one has the CFM56’s.
By: steve rowell - 20th January 2009 at 21:38
‘The US Airways plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river last week had engine trouble two days earlier, according to safety investigators.’
Check out post 115 lad!!!
By: sainz - 20th January 2009 at 19:59
Emergency landing of a Ту-124 on the Neva-river, 1963:
http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=45524
to translate:
http://www.webpark.ru/comments.php?id=45524
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By: Bmused55 - 20th January 2009 at 14:10
Wasnt there an investigation recently into the engines on A320s stalling out?
There was and is.
I’m under the impression the investigation is based on the CFM engine. The cowling on this US bird seems to indicate it have IAE engines?
By: ianatkin - 20th January 2009 at 14:00
‘The US Airways plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river last week had engine trouble two days earlier, according to safety investigators.’
Look up about five posts… :rolleyes:
By: B77W - 20th January 2009 at 13:59
‘The US Airways plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river last week had engine trouble two days earlier, according to safety investigators.’
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