Yes, we and you know, a US Airways plane headed From Laguardia to Charlotte made a crash landing into the Hudson, after hitting what was thought to be a flock of geese. Commuter ferries are attempting to get everyone off safely. The above photo sent in by a Dealbreaker reader. Take a minute to join us in hoping for a safe rescue for all the passengers and crew, and discuss it here if you’d like. Assholes’ IPs will be nuked. Do not test us on this.
US Airways Plane Crashes in Hudson River [WSJ]
Update: The FAA has apparently put out a release that everyone is off the plane.
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un-fucking-believable
hell of a landing
NY Waterway: “Our ferries are rescuing everyone, but, uh, no service advisory on our website”
That pilot must be a complete stud.
How cold must that water be.
It would fucking suck to be on that flight, though the Hudson is better than Charlotte
Serious pat on the back to the pilot(s)
Best pilot evah
Thank goodness the plane doesn’t appear too busted up … that’s a good sign.
Where are all those Steve Jobs assholes from yesterday? Care to piss on these poor people too?
That plane crashed 5-10 minutes after takeoff. Pilot landed it at 172 miles an hour, slowly and controlled, everybody had their life vests on. That guy deserves a month-long vacation and should be training all pilots.
check out the pic from the wsj. there are a bunch of guys in suits standing on the wing looking like they are out for a ferry tour. hats off the pilots – guess we will all pay a little more attention to the flight attendants when demonstrating the water landing…
http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?t=7537
I always blew off the announcements about what to do in a “water landing” thinking that a water landing approximately = 100% death. But this guy is a legend. Water landing at 130mph and everyone safe.
Dear God,
I’m sorry I said I wanted to kill EP. Please don’t send anymore Geese into compromising situations.
Regards,
Girl
Charlie Gasparino reporting that he has sources in the cockpit telling him that everything is fine.
WOW. If anybody on that flight’s job was in SERIOUS jeopardy given the economy (although being alive is what you should be thankful for the most), sounds like AT LEAST 6 months of medical leave to me…trauma, back spasms, you name it…
Water was reported to be around 41 degrees… although CNBC said the water was below 20 degrees. The laws of physics don’t apply to CNBC.
Reports that everyone is off the plane
Best pilot evah
It figures it was the Canadiens….
How deep is the river at that point?
@8
no, but i’ll piss on jobs some more – that guy’s a douche…and tools like you thinking his hi-tech walkman company is something special deserve a nice dunk in the hudson
This kind of disproves that Fight Club quote doesn’t it?
The lower Hudson river is maintained at a depth of at least 32 feet for commercial traffic from the Port of Albany to New York City, but is as deep as 200 feet in places. The lower Hudson River flows south through farmland(PDF, 1.1MB) for 60 miles, but passes through some industrial areas before entering the Hudson Highlands area, where it flows through a deep, narrow channel with steep banks and forested mountain slopes. The river then widens near Haverstraw where it attains a width of 3.5 miles before narrowing as it passes the cliffs of the Palisades and continues south to upper New York Harbor.
too soon, girl.
(just fuck her one time)
“although CNBC said the water was below 20 degrees. The laws of physics don’t apply to CNBC.”
Salt water that is moving doesn’t freeze at 32, genius.
146 less people leaving New York for Charlotte is a win in my book. Glad everyone’s okay.
The pilot should be the new CEO of BankAmerillwide.
I bet he wouldn’t overpay by 25%+ for a 2nd rate WealthMgmt firm. Or 3rd rate mortgage bank.
Charlie Gasparino reporting the situation is fluid.
@14 – Is the situation fluid?
@24
That’s a good one. I hear MSNBC has a better reporter on this.
is anyone else seeing the patriotic show of symbolism us air is putting on here? nyc merill acquired by charlotte bac = epic fail into the hudson. am i reading too much into this event?
“What have you got????”
There’s a “bail” or “bailing out” joke in this story somewhere, I just can’t put my finger on it . . .
Seriously, that pilot is Rambo, Arnold, Connery, and Ron Jeremy rolled into one.
Actually Charlie Gasparino reporting the situation is frigid.
@12 I totally agree. I always thought the life-vests were ornaments. This pilot is a miracle-worker, should be put in charge of Treasury or The Fed (or both)
This pilot will be teaching his quite heroic landing for the rest of his life most likely. Unbelievable…good on him.
Watched it from my office window…Hell of a pilot..Very lucky passengers!
@28 this is @27, pay the fuck attention you are wasting my time.
@27 Charlie Gasparino always looks like he has been swimming in the Hudson River, unless it is his olive oil facial rub
Super saturated salt water freezes at 18 degrees. Ice would have been forming at ‘below 20 degrees’ also, the hudson isn’t super saturated… genius @24
That pilot deserves a first-class, all-expenses-paid trip to wherever the hell he wants, along with the rest of the flight crew.
Marcus Schrenker was the pilot
@16 the Hudson river is an estuary this close to NY harbor: a mix of salt water from the harbor and fresh water from the upper Hudson. The freezing point is well under 32.
Absolutely amazing landing and evacuation operation.
@41 – if YOU were that pilot, would you ever let anyone else fly you somewhere?
dammnit no one read the double post article
Great job by the pilot. A flock of geese? Seriously? Some things you just chalk up in the WATFO category.
I am sure the news media will take the baton and beat this into the ground. All of a sudden, cable news anchors become John James Audubon and you have a NYT Sunday feature charting geese migration patterns in Queens.
True testament to humankind, from the pilot to the passengers to the rescue crew. Let this be a reminder of what our country is made of. God Bless America.
42 – best comment EVER
Latest news from CNN about this reflects on the fact that all passengers not only survived, but also stayed relatively dry. Apparently, USAir had contracted out some german-made, space age materials for the interior of the cabin, which are extremely beneficial in emergency water-based scenarios. This material which is able to absorb 20 time its weight in liquid was responsible for keeping the interior of the cabin dry. Shamwow, is there anything it can’t do?
I wonder if the people in the emergency exit row actually had to follow through on their promise to assist their fellow passengers btw? I’ve always wondered that.
The flight attendants also deserve alot of credit. I’m sure there was some serious pandemonium in there when it was descending.
The salt water from the ocean is heavier than the fresh water, and it stays on the bottom. The fresh water from upstate flows above the salt water.
@51 – Well done . . . did they use the SlapChop to release stubborn seatbelts?
Update: Bill White, COO of the USS Intrepid Museum, says that about 21 Bank of America employees were on the plane (BoA is an Intrepid sponsor). He said it was a “miracle” that no one was injured and that it was incredible the pilot steered the plane into the water.
According to reports, there were no deaths. There are minor injuries to all passengers. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is en route with a water crane to retrieve the air craft.
@53 – fresh water…in the hudson…ahahahaha!
@girl – hells no, the reason you sit on the exit row is because (a) you didn’t get the upgrade and (b) you are the first one on the raft once the plane lands.
who needs a drink besides me? bessy, db happy hour tonight. make it happen. you owe us!
Any bankers on the plane?
Gasparino is checking if the pilot shorted LCC before takeoff. If so, didn’t work…the stock is up in after-hours trading. Another insurer will be asking for tarp money to pay of the plane.
jets are not your specialty mr bernanke, next time just stick to using helicopters.
Update: Bill White, COO of the USS Intrepid Museum, says that about 21 Bank of America employees were on the plane (BoA is an Intrepid sponsor). He said it was a “miracle” that no one was injured and that it was incredible the pilot steered the plane into the water.
According to reports, there were no deaths. There are minor injuries to all passengers. The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is en route with a water crane to retrieve the air craft.
3-4 wachovia bankers. a couple bofa bankers.
Is Bess the new Ahmenijad – nuking people is not kind.
Bess this rhetoric is disturbing.
Glad everyone is safe. Now back to work or Kenny will take away spirit points if you don’t get on next flight to Charlotte!
@49
I believe 57th street.
That’s amazing. It is fantastic that no one appears to have died.
#51, I sh*t my pants laughing.
If I were Ken Lewis, I would give any BoA employees on the plane an automatic pass on the next round of layoffs. Only seems fair.
C-Gas is now reporting that, according to his unimpeachable sources, this was really an impromptu but successful test of the next generation NYC water taxi. The decrepit old east side ports were apparently part of what caused it to go out of business. Also, the old one took much longer than 3 minutes.
@51 – We’re lucky the entire river wasn’t absorbed if that’s the case…
Didn’t a BofA helicopter go down in the Hudson back in ’05/’06? No injuries. Still, gotta wonder if there’s some curse re flying in/out of NYC with BofA personnel on board.
Nice work 51, I didn’t see it coming until it hit me in the face.
Wait, that didn’t… I mean… nm.
@ Cluzo
I’ll be around the Village circa 8pm if you wanna grab some (many) drinks
Dear Liberals,
We know you are mad at the pilot for flying into the birds, but the people survived and the birds didn’t. Draw a conclusion: we are not all the same.
Deal with it,
Realist.
Dear Liberals,
We know you are mad at the pilot for flying into the birds, but the people survived and the birds didn’t. Draw a conclusion: we are not all the same.
Deal with it,
Realist.
@anal_yst – will shoot you an email if I venture down. may have an early meeting tomorrow.
Pilot deserves a ticker-tape parade. Wow!
@18 – Habs are in Montreal tonight, couldn’t have been them.
@72,73 but remember the plane was built by the Euro socialists…
How much do I have to pay to fly US Airways and not crash land in the Hudson?
this wouldn’t have happened if Obama had already been sworn in
@72 and another thing the librul moran media are reporting the birds may have been foreign! they were canadian geese!
do you think an airline reimburses for all the ruined/lost luggage from a plane crash?
@81–nobody checks luggage on that flight. Probably more geese in the cabin than through the engine since US Scareways started charging for checked luggage.
@81 – just for the soiled underwear…
@24,
The freezing point of seawater is ~28F, and movement does not affect the freezing point, only the actual temperature. So clearly the Hudson was not less than 20F.
Genius.
Agreed, 25. Too bad that pilot wasn’t running Merrill Lynch.
Bush clearly is responsible for the geese migratory path. Obama clearly must be credited to the absense of casualties.
Fox Business clearly got the Physics right, while CNBC was still being idiotic saying the water was “frozen” which obviously can’t happen if it’s salt water, hellloooooooo.
haha 78
my flight last week had insane turbulence over the rockies and i was scared shitless. don’t get me wrong, this must’ve been bad, but theres something inherently scarier about things going bad at 35,000 ft than at 500 ft. 500 ft is a lot less time to think about what the impact will be like…
confirmed: 20 BofA exec’s were on the plane headed back to Charlotte for the long weekend from (former) ML HQ
Two amazing events in an afternoon that are related. A plane lands in the Hudson River without fatalities and it turns out that Wachovia has investment bankers. A sign of the apocalypse?
- Fixed Income
After being bombarded with images of nothing but incompetence on the national stage for the past 8 years, whether in government or on Wall Street, it’s nice to see that there are still people out there who are actually good at their jobs…..
Yankee,yes
You are unbelievable…
How about twin towers?
Plane was overloaded as it was carrying BofA’s bail-out money
84…. moving water does not freeze at the same temp as still water… thats why people drip their faucets when its going to be cold…. dumb dick
US Air Force former F4 pilot. GO AIR FORCE!
@95, you arrogant twit-the reason for leaving the faucet dripping is to replace the water chilling in exposed pipes with (relatively) warmer water from the subterranean main line. Moving water will definitely freeze. Just have a look at these photos for example:
http://www.terragalleria.com/pictures-subjects/frozen-waterfalls/
This is why nature should be eliminated at all costs.
@97, nice. Game, set, match.
This is why nature should be eliminated at all costs.
@95, you arrogant twit-the reason for leaving the faucet dripping is to replace the water chilling in exposed pipes with (relatively) warmer water from the subterranean main line. Moving water will definitely freeze. Just have a look at these photos for example:
http://www.terragalleria.com/pictures-subjects/frozen-waterfalls/
This is why nature should be eliminated at all costs.
95 and 97: letting a faucet drip is to prevent the pressure in the pipe from building up and cracking the pipe. http://www.weather.com/activities/homeandgarden/home/hometips/severeweather/pipefreeze_prevent.html
@95,
Where on water’s phase diagram do you find velocity (http://www.cbu.edu/~mcondren/water-phase-diagram.jpg)? Or did they just forget that axis? Movement affects the conduction of heat, not the freezing point.
Dumb dick.