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Cactus 1549 on departure from LGA to CLT.
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Cactus 1549 on departure from LGA to CLT.
Pilot reported hitting a flock of geese, according to MSNBC.
146 pax + 5 crew on board.
Plane is upright, floating, dozens of boats surrounding the plane to evacuate passengers.
Watching the CNN coverage online; they say it was a gentle landing and the plane is floating. Lots of ferries on the scene picking up people.
Makes me miss Miles O'Brien.
Last FlightExplore data (per CNN's Chad Myers) says that it was at 300 feet at 153 knots.
USAirways.com down due to volume. Flightaware down as well.
Possible bird strike.
Turn on the TV.
I looked at flightaware a few moments ago. Now , I don't use use it regularly, but in the spot there it showed scheduled altitude, it said 36000 ft but in the spot where it lists actual altitude, it showed 300 ft with a downward arrow.
Is the downward arrow standard nomenclature on that site?
On Passur, rewind to 15:26 http://www4.passur.com/lga.html
Looks like it climbed north to 3400 feet, then started descending and made a left toward the river and quickly descended heading south.
Down arrow means the plane is descending.Quote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie
I hope theres no fatalies
POSSIBLE BIRD INGESTION INVOLVED PRELIINARY. WOW ONLY 1 MILE FROM WHERE I USED TO LIVE
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> US 1549 made a "water landing". LGA to CLT. A320 possible
> suffered a bird strike on take off.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vidiot
who is that? :oops:
Miles O'Brien is our former aviation and space correspondent. He's a pilot (he has a SR22) and knows a lot about aviation.
Looks like everyone got out safely.
Does anyplace archive LGA radio traffic? LiveATC doesn't have it.
Don't think so, unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vidiot
Reports are that all passengers and crew were evacuated safely from the A320. Its absolutely amazing that the aircraft is still intact.
Looks like the aircraft is going under. Glad everyone got out okay. She's nearly completely submerged.
According to ACARS it "should" have been N106US
Hey Jones-ey! How have you been? Hope all is well.
Hearing otn he news that all is accoutned for, looks good.
FAA says everyone out safely. Amazing.
woohoo, good job on the flight crew's part...
From what I hear all are accounted for at this point in time...
airframes can be replaced, souls can't....
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/US-Airway ... 222806.jpg
It looks like it came down right near the Intrepid! I wonder if they will tow it over to Pier 86 right behind the Concorde and prop it up for the NTSB investigation?
An amazing job by the flight crew getting her down in one piece!!
Pete
FBOweb shows it best.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/awe1549a.gif
Senga
Running out of stuff to talk about, news coverage is getting annoying now..."why is the plane still floating?" "I DON'T KNOW, IT'S AMAZING!"
It's probably because it's tied up to a boat, they're not going to let it sink.
Haha unbleeped passenger interview on MSNBC:
Reporter: What was the landing like?
Passenger: Scary as s**t!
Is it really tied up to one of the boats nearby? It seems like an awful lot of weight to carry once the plane is no longer buoyant. According to airbus.com, it looks like the typical weight would be about 100,000 lbs. For a barge, that's not a big deal, but for a passenger ferry, I would be concerned.
as I walk about the office, I heard a reporter say it was a bird strike on BOTH engines.
C'mon now lady.
Not positive, but I'm pretty sure I saw ropes attached.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonesbeach
That would seem to be the case, Mario...obviously more than one bird. If it were just one engine this would not have happened, and not many things besides multiple birds getting sucked into both engines would cause both engines to fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie
WSJ is reporting the captain had initially hoped to glide to TEB, but they lost altitude too quickly.
It appears to be correct - seems it went through a flock of birds, effecting both engines. If only one engine was out, I would expect they could have stayed airborne.Quote:
Originally Posted by mirrodie
The big question is where are they going to tow it to?
Sounds like they're around 40th St now. There's a lot of good spots to fish it out from over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derf
WNBC-4 is reporting the aircraft is down near 23rd St, and they will be trying to tie it up near Chelsea Piers (although I thought I heard someone say something about Chambers Street, which is even further downtown).
Eh, just rip the engines and black boxes out for inspection and let it float out to sea. Maybe it'll swim back to France. :)
hopefully, we shall see it at JFK, we have a giant de-icing hangar that could be referred to as a heat lamp...
I walked over to Pier A Park in Hoboken around 5pm (it's roughly across from Christopher Street) and saw the tail still above water and lots of boats around it. At that point it was already further south down the river so Chambers Street seems like a real possibility.
US Airways new LGA-Midtown service on final.
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