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Were they useful, though?

Bear in mind that the Hudson at this time of year is bloody cold and
bloody fast-flowing. Anybody who was in the water for very long wouldn't
have survived, and would have been taken by the current almost
immediately.

AIUI, they got out onto the wings and stood about until they could get
into boats.

 

You mean the current would sweep a person away but not a floating aeroplane?

 

No.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7832439.stm
"The plane moved rapidly down river, threatening to submerge at one
point, until guided to a halt by tug boats against a pier."

 

"I knew I wuz gonna die and within seconds I had gotten all my
clothes off and gotten onto a s.." Segment interrupted.

**** me, I thought he was going to say stewardess.

 

A couple of Argos dehumdifiers. Sorted.

 

Checking for anything worth pinching?

 

My thoughts exactly. Once, yes, and even that requires big balls in a
sinking aircraft[1]. But *twice*.... Stone me, I thought, there's a
man who eats three Shredded Wheat for breakfast.

[1] OK, so it didn't, but he wasn't to know that.

 

Well, yes, he obviously knew exactly what he was doing. But given the
lack of hard experience of this sort of thing, I think I'd have
ditched [1] the second walk-through in favour of: "**** that, I'm
getting out, *now*."

[1] to coin a phrase.

 

from you? 3/10 must try harder.

 

'Til next month when someone [1] decides he should've checked his radar for
birds or taken avoiding action before the plane ran into them.

[1] We'll call him "****".

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There were survivors of the plane that ditched in the Potomac too.


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Beav

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Pitifully few.

 

Or find out he did what the bloke[1] who crashed at Kegworth did - have
one engine blow up and then shut off the other.

[1] who was also called a hero at first.

 

Indeed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7834034.stm
Looking at the map, he made the right decision. Superficially it looks
as if he might have made it to Teterboro, but even if he had, I suspect
it would have ended in a fireball. Full fuel and no height left on
approach.

 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:16:48 -0800 (PST), "TOG@Toil"

It has now!

Eric Moody was on the TV this morning. He was explaining that when
all the engines cut out on his plane, it was a "bit easier" as he was
at 36, 000ft and had about 15 minutes to work out a plan.

 

From the looks of the pics some were still knee-deep. I saw a report
that said the water temp was -6C. I guess what really helped is that
there were so many boats in the area that got to the scene very
quickly.

 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:21:00 -0800 (PST), "TOG@Toil"

I remembered seeing that on the news so I looked it up - 13 Jan 1982.
Makes depressing reading.

 

There's another name for water at -6C....

 

It's a salt-water river, ytc.

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Krusty

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'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
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Black box conversation revealed in a few weeks time:

Co-pilot: My flying stunt vids on YouTube have more views than yours -
drinks are on you when we get to Carolina.
Pilot: The competition's not over yet - it's most YouTube attention by
the time we *get* to Carolina
Co-Pilot: I've got 300 views to your 20 - how exactly are you planning
to win?
Pilot: See those birds?