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USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - Launchbury - 15-01-2009
All over the news and airliners.net. A320 hit a flock of birds on takeoff, lost both engines. Ditched in the aircraft in the Hudson River,
everyone safe. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1549/history/20090115/2004Z/KLGA/KLGA
Positively spectacular end to a hairy situation.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - Sean_EMD - 16-01-2009
I'll drink to that! It's nice to see some good news for a change.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - pagir - 16-01-2009
Really spectacular...
It can be reproduced with FsPX
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - Valoran - 16-01-2009
I forget, can you ditch safely in FSPX or does it have to be a land landing?
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - pagir - 16-01-2009
Yes, you can ditch in water too
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - DSW334 - 16-01-2009
Wow.. truly amazing. Everyone walked (or swimmed) away safely. The pilots and crew did an amazing job.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - airmiles - 16-01-2009
Hat off to the Pilot and crew great job to get everyone off safely with only a few minor injuries
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - JeffMcBride - 16-01-2009
The pilot should be commended. I believe he had very few options seeing how buildings were everywhere. He was probably under the
thought that the best chance he had was in the water. I wonder how many pilots would have been capable of doing what he did. It's great
to know that it is actually possible to bring a large jet down in the water and it not break apart and actually float long enough for pax to get
out. I don't think it ever completely sank did it? Hopefully they will use the data from this flight to help train other pilots in what to do when
making a water landing. I wonder how many law sutes there will be even though everyone survived...
Now another thought. To me this didn't hurt the companies reputation. Everyone survived and it was an act of nature that couldn't be
helped. So has their reputation gone down or up. In my opinion I say up. Everyone survived, that's awesome. I wouldn't be scared to fly
with this company because of this crash.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - DSW334 - 16-01-2009
I don't think that it would hurt the companies reputation either. Pilot did one hell of a job and the crash was the result of a birdstrike, not some
sort of mechanical problem. So the company did nothing wrong here.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - gomelby - 17-01-2009
Does anyone know where I could find statistical data on water landings. I just want to see how many successful water landings there
have been in the history of aviation.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - SkyAirWorld - 17-01-2009
Was a flock of geese, and as soon as it touched down in the water ferries began to rope it up to prevent it from
sinking, it has since been
towed over into a boat dock, and is "docked" like a boat for the time being...the plane also had some more time
becuase the cabin crew
didnt open the rear doors, fearing it would sink... and also remember Jet fuel floats, the pilots probably closed the
outflow vale to retain
buoyancy....A320 also has a ditching pushbutton so it can be prepared quickly.
![[Image: 1232052793_0.jpg]](http://estaticos02.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2009/01/15/1232052793_0.jpg)
![[Image: USAirways_08.jpg]](http://www.wcnc.com/images/slideshow/011509-usairwayscrash/images/USAirways_08.jpg)
![[Image: USAirways_02.jpg]](http://www.wcnc.com/images/slideshow/011509-usairwayscrash/images/USAirways_02.jpg)
![[Image: USAirways_01.jpg]](http://www.wcnc.com/images/slideshow/011509-usairwayscrash/images/USAirways_01.jpg)
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gomelby, here is some reading material about ditchings and successful ditchings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditching
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytqnfm2kibq
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867172,00.html
http://www.avweb.com/news/news/182363-1.html
In my personal opinion, I would estimate that given you have lost one engine due to a flock of birds, the probability
of losing the other engine as well is somewhere between 10 and 50%. (Which would be astronomical
dimensions greater than the chance of having a birdstrike in the first place.)
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - Anastasios - 17-01-2009
Security camera recordings of ditching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UzxrtAvto
Anastasios.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - HB-100 - 17-01-2009
A320!!
good sweet plane... it even looks good when swimming.
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - SkyAirWorld - 17-01-2009
I dont see the appeal of an Airbus....
(A340 being the exception)
Re: USAir A320 crash today 1/15 - AeroJim - 17-01-2009
I'm really glad Sky gave us those photos, I couldn't find any others on the internet.