Jan
15
Plane crashes into Hudson River
January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Michelle Malkin has details.
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US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 headed from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, was down in the river after a failed takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The U.S. Coast Guard said units were also responding, and a ferry on site was dropping life jackets into the water.
The plane approached the water at a gradual angle and made a big splash, according to a witness watching from an office building.
“It wasn’t going particularly fast. It was a slow contact with the water that it made,” said the witness, Ben VonKlemperer.
Reports are that the plane hit a flock of geese. Unbelievable.
Fortunately, initial reports also indicate that there have been no deaths. Let’s pray that remains the case.
Update: Photo from the crash site, posted on Twitter. That’s just cool.
Amazingly, all 148 passengers survived. Thank God.
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Wow, and I thought that there was never really an occasion where someone might actually use their seat as a flotation device.
I used to read the evacuation card very carefully when I was a kid. I probably haven’t read in 25 years. Now I will be more diligent about reading the emergency procedures.