A US Airways Jet, model A320, crashed into the Hudson River near Manhattan. It is Flight 1549 from LaGuardia Airport, NYC to Douglas Airport in Charlotte, NC. Cameras caught the plane floating on the Hudson. The pilot of the flight, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, reported a possible bird strike, shortly after takeoff, possibly a flock of geese.
There are 164 passengers on board with 5 crew members. Apparently, the water temperature is in the 30s F.
The plane is completely submerged now:
Earlier, people on the wing:
All passengers and crew have survived.
US Airways A320 Crash – Update – March, 2010
Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who as a US Airways pilot guided a stricken aircraft to a safe landing in the Hudson River, will receive the American Spirit Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation on August 28th of this year. Sullenberger, 56, who just recently retired, was a former Air Force pilot and flew F-4 Phantom IIs before he flew commercial jets. In a statement, Sullenberger said though he is retiring after 30 years on the flight line, he plans to continue to advocate for aviation safety and for the profession of airline pilots. “I will work to remind the entire industry — and those who manage and regulate it — that we have a sacred duty to our passengers to do the very best that we know how to do,” he said.
Stupid words about french airplanes!
If you stuff enough birds in it every turbofan on the world will quit.
The pilot did a fantastif job in bringing down the airplane on the water with its structure intact.
Gratulations!
Damn eurocrap airplanes!!!! An American made plane would have eating 5000 birds before it lost an attitude…..
USA USA USA USA
GUNS GUNS GUNS CHEESBURGERS!!
i meant to typo CHESSBURGERS!
Anyway, the engines are the same type also on a Boeing 737 proudly built in america, so what….
That ‘stupid’ French jet had American General Electric engines (the part that unsurprsingly failed after ingesting a flock of geese).
Not sure if you can see the link, but search on you tube for “Bird gets ingested in airplane engine” to see the effect of ONE goose sized bird getting sucked into an engine.
The airplane, where its made and what airline it is has 0 to do with incidents like these. This was foregin object damage into a turbofan engine. Could have happened on a Boeing, Tupolev, Yak, Bombardier, Beechcraft or Sukhoi..
In either case, the sales of the A320 line speaks for itself. But thats irrelevant
Good job to the crew.
THE ENGINES ARE HALF FRENCH
Two suppliers provide turbofan engines for the A320 series: CFM International with their CFM56, and International Aero Engines, offering the V2500
CFM is a SAFRAN joint venture.
Thomas Krohm, gibbo and Freedom Fries
you´re very stupid. you don´t know, what you say. You have in all over the world the same standards. An Airbus with an american engine will be fallen from heaven too.
320 “pilot”…if that is your real name….