US Airways 1549

[Monk Xion]

Off topic but...

Has everyone seen this?! Its a miracle everyone survived!

Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.york.plane.crash/index.html

If the crash was attributed to a birdstrike it reminds me of this:
http://airwaysmag.com/channels.html?article_id=78&channel_id=7

This is Alaska Airlines Flight 61. Salmon hit the airplane. Near bird strike.

There was also another Alaska Airlines flight that sucked in two birds! I cant find the story though.

Kudos to the flight crew!

RK
CEO Bluesky Group

[Dazwalsh]

yeah been reading up on it, simply amazing!

[moxiepilot]

Thankful I was on a different Cactus flight today   Kudos to the crew

[joaocbm]

the airbus showed tremendous strenght being intact after crashing/landing on water... not seen many times...

[ICEcoldair881]

it amazing how a B767 broke up and sank a little to the bottom of the shallow beach after the hijack of that Ethiopian Jet, and the US Airways A320 floated after a water crash landing.....

[jagalubnan]

Well the A320 had a full tank, while the Ethipian jet was running out of gas.

[Sami]

Check the video on the 767 landing to water ... a HUGELY different thing than this controlled ditching..

[thedr2]

This is Alaska Airlines Flight 61. Salmon hit the airplane. Near bird strike.

Hmmm, wonder if this livery has anything to do with that incident.

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5839626&nseq=0


Looks like what the crew did well here (that the ethiopian crew didnt, probably under control of the hijackers) was land the plane perfectly level. Undreslung engines like on the A320 and B767 act as huge buckets when they hit water. Dragging one side of the aircraft away from the other and ripping it apart.

[Unbornio]

I know I'm a party pooper for saying this but the forum topic says it's for "General discussion on the Airwaysim project" 

[thedr2]

I think we could do with off topic and/or aviation discussion forums. Sami?

[Runner]

It's a downright textbook ditching! And it's really cool to see that an aircraft of about 70.000 kgs just float like that!

Anyway, the difference between this A320 ditching and the 767 from Ethopian is that the crew of the 767 coulnd't concentrate on the ditching, because the hijackers were still in the cockpit, messing things up. And it probably went a lot faster then this Airbus.

[Dazwalsh]

it is quite hard to figure out how the engines when they hit the water just didn't "dig in" and the whole lot going nose down into the water and breaking up.

[Teemu]

It's a downright textbook ditching! And it's really cool to see that an aircraft of about 70.000 kgs just float like that!

remember that it had tanks full of JET-A

[Talentz]

I think we could do with off topic and/or aviation discussion forums. Sami?

*Eyes sparkle*

Sami.. 


~ Has everyone read up on the Russian Il-76 runway collision that happened Thursday night (russian time)?

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090116/119617239.html

Ouch.. loss of life is never good.