Re: New dive site in the Hudson River

[Default] Thus spake "Grumman-581" <grumman581+usenet-2009@xxxxxxxxx>:

1hogrider <nitespark@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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Since I wasn't there, havn't read any reports, (other than notoriously
inaccurate news sources), I would surmise that a pilot that had the
experience and skill he displayed would have delayed takeoff if he saw
a flock of birds that presented a danger.

LGA has an ongoing NOTAM concerning birds in the vicinity of the airport
as do a lot of airports... Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland
Defense dropped the ball on this since they weren't able to intercept any
chatter concerning Al-Qaeda terrorist suicide geese infiltrating our
country via Canada (they were Canadian geese, right?)...

South Park had it right years ago.


With 3 minutes into the flight he could not have had much altitude,
both engines were out, and he steered a large commercial airliner and
put it down in such a manner that NO ONE on the aircraft died, NO ONE
on the ground died, and as the aircraft was sinking, he made two trips
up and down the aisle to insure NO ONE was left behind.

Supposedly, they made it up to 3200 ft before losing all the engines...
It's about 10.5 miles from LGA to Teterboro (where ATC tried to get him
to land)... It's about 5.2 miles from the Hudson to Teterboro... Maybe he
could have deadsticked it into Teterboro, depending upon what the runway
layout is over there... At that height and for that large of an aircraft,
his options were not that great... When losing an engine (or in this case
*both* engines) after takeoff, very seldom do you have enough altitude
that you can execute a 180 degree turn and make it back to the airport...
Basically, you look ahead and try to find your best crash site... If
you're lucky, there will be an opening that will allow you to at least
decrease your speed somewhat before you come to the sudden stop at the
end... If he didn't do it perfectly or if the landing gear would not come
down, there would have been a chance of a fire upon landing / crashing at
Teterboro... The chance of a fire while landing in the water is somewhat
less... Considering the hand that he was dealt, he did damn good...
--

- dillon I am not invalid

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams come true.
Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which
will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no
matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.


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