wow... new york plane crash....

15 Jan 2009

you guys may not hear about this until 10... but i have just had the most amazing call for 2 cousins who has just seen this from there work windows....

amazingly it seems everyone got out and the pilot did a spectacular job....
if you want a comparison... this would be like a plane flying out of heathrow and 5 minutes later landing the plane in the thames...
thank god...
p.s I bet next time you all go on a plane you'll listen to the safety briefing now....

15 Jan 2009

2 engines suffering bird strikes? Thats just hugely unlucky, fantastic skills by the pilot to lessen the impact.

15 Jan 2009

yeah i just been watching it on sky news for the last 20 mins.
the reporters have started to interview the survivors, and i have now switched off.
I know these people want to report the news but ffs these people have just cheated death, i was listening to a live feed from a us news station and all i could here was a million questions being fired at these poor people.
i'm just glad it seems everyone survived, and by all accounts the pilot did an amazing and i mean amazing crash landing in the sea.
bloody reporters mad

:x

16 Jan 2009

That is amazing! Big up for the plane driver :thumbup:

16 Jan 2009

What about the poor birds?? :shock: :shock: :shock:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: wink

16 Jan 2009

Quote by Sgt Bilko
What about the poor birds?? :shock: :shock: :shock:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Aww don't worry Sarge, they rescued the women too :therethere:

16 Jan 2009

Quote by Serendipity
What about the poor birds?? :shock: :shock: :shock:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Aww don't worry Sarge, they rescued the women too :therethere:
Hooraaahh!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

16 Jan 2009

Heroic crew - smashing job - hero parades - tv interviews - how long after the dust has settled will the class action lawsuit start? Welcome to America
Cynical eh? lol

:lol: :lol:

16 Jan 2009

Quote by Crashnnix
Heroic crew - smashing job - hero parades - tv interviews - how long after the dust has settled will the class action lawsuit start? Welcome to America
Cynical eh? :lol: :lol:

Yeah but crash you aint wrong are you. Shame ain't it though. Good to see ya posting too :thumbup: we need more cynics biggrin

17 Jan 2009

My mate who's an airline pilot said it was 50% luck and 50% good flying.
He also said NO pilot ever expects to survive a water ditching.
Well done that man, and crew.

17 Jan 2009

All i csn ssy is the training he had payed off ten fold,And also a big congratulations to the rescue services of New York City,,

17 Jan 2009

Quote by Crashnnix
Heroic crew - smashing job - hero parades - tv interviews - how long after the dust has settled will the class action lawsuit start? Welcome to America
Cynical eh? :lol: :lol:

very cycinal... you can see PETA going into court claiming "psychological damage" done to the geese... :lol:
or as my cousin said... "it take me a hour to get from LaGuardia to midtown, they did it in 3 minutes!!"

17 Jan 2009

The sight of all the boats going in to rescue the people as amazing

17 Jan 2009

A superb emergency landing I guess - textbook.. but double horror, both for those onboard and for those in NYC seeing an airliner heading for what looked like Manhatten (again!)
confused

:P

17 Jan 2009

Absolutely fantastic piece of skill, nose too high, and the tail section is at risk of breaking off, nose too low, and the aircraft faces submersion.

17 Jan 2009

just seen a cctv footage of it landing on the water and i think this guys gliding experiance must have played a major part.
worship

:worship:

18 Jan 2009

Saw it on tv today - amazing landing! Bet that pilot was sweating - along with everyone else!

18 Jan 2009

Quote by anais
Saw it on tv today - amazing landing! Bet that pilot was sweating - along with everyone else!

Yeah, but the water will have cooled them rapidly.
It wouldn't have happened here.
For a start the bylaws against landing a fuel-laden aircraft in a freshwater course would have prevented it.
Then the need to risk-assess the situation before the emergency services could proceed with the rescue would have slowed it down.
The necessary method statement to have the rescue proceed would have to be read by all concerned, and then signed .
The pilot would have been arrested for fly-tipping afterwards.
Then the RSPCA would have to be called to check on the geese .
Friends of the earth would have a rep available to preach about how flying was killing the world .
And the "no heathrow expansion" gaggle would have more people on the scene to tell everyone that "you can expect this in your town if heathrow is expanded"

18 Jan 2009

This has been described as a miracle as if a well built aircraft and skilled pilot don't count and it was all down to some mythical being. If there's an all powerful god, why do accidents happen in the first place?

18 Jan 2009

Quote by Biguy1955
This has been described as a miracle as if a well built aircraft and skilled pilot don't count and it was all down to some mythical being. If there's an all powerful god, why do accidents happen in the first place?

To make us appreciate that when miracles happen, they are actually miracles.......

18 Jan 2009

Quote by DeeCee
This has been described as a miracle as if a well built aircraft and skilled pilot don't count and it was all down to some mythical being. If there's an all powerful god, why do accidents happen in the first place?

To make us appreciate that when miracles happen, they are actually miracles.......
About God:
Epicurus:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
George Bernard Shaw:
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Frank Lloyd Wright:
I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".
Gene Roddenberry:
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Isaac Asimov:
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.
Mark Twain:
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Seneca the Younger:
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Woody Allen:
Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Edward Abbey:
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Doug McLeod:
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Abu'-Ala al Ma'arri:
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Susan :
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Delos :
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Francis Bacon:
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Richard Dawkins:
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

18 Jan 2009

Quote by JTS
This has been described as a miracle as if a well built aircraft and skilled pilot don't count and it was all down to some mythical being. If there's an all powerful god, why do accidents happen in the first place?

To make us appreciate that when miracles happen, they are actually miracles.......
About God:
Epicurus:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
George Bernard Shaw:
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Frank Lloyd Wright:
I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".
Gene Roddenberry:
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Isaac Asimov:
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.
Mark Twain:
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Seneca the Younger:
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Woody Allen:
Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Edward Abbey:
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Doug McLeod:
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Abu'-Ala al Ma'arri:
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Susan :
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Delos :
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Francis Bacon:
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Richard Dawkins:
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
What they :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: said.

18 Jan 2009

However I still reckon the pilot deserves full recognition.
Landing a plane safely without it's engines is bloody hard at the best of times. But just as you are taking off - full fuel load, forward momentum only just overcoming the drag and weight of the plane and no space under you to glide far enough to make a choice - that showed his consumate skill and cool-headedness.

18 Jan 2009

Quote by Biguy1955
This has been described as a miracle as if a well built aircraft and skilled pilot don't count and it was all down to some mythical being. If there's an all powerful god, why do accidents happen in the first place?

Pilots are Gods :thumbup: