US Airways jet crashes in Hudson River

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Nov 5, 2004
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US Airways jet crashes in Hudson River
Rescue workers help passengers from plane


Breaking News.
updated 2 minutes ago

A US Airways passenger jet taking off from La Guardia airport in New York en route to Charlotte, N.C., crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday.

The plane is an Airbus A320. NBC News has identified it as Flight 1549.


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Wtf? Crazy shit, its all over tv right now. This plane is straight floating on the surface of the water. Hella rescue boats and shit.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887506#22887506
 
Apr 25, 2002
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muthafuckin flight of birds brought that shit down... hellll naw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike

Bird Strike

The impact of a 5 kg (12 pound) bird at 240 km/h (150 mph) equals that of a 1/2 ton (1000 pound) weight dropped from a height of 3 meters (10 ft).


F-16 canopy after a bird strike


A hawk stuck in the nosecone of a C-130


View of fan blades of JT8D Jet engine after a bird strike.


A UH-60 Black Hawk after a collision with a type of crane, and failure of the windshield


A UH-60 after collision with a crane, and subsequent failure of the windshield as seen from the inside.
 
Dec 9, 2005
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Scary. I fly all the time, and hate that shit.


Glad these folks made it out alive.


I thought it was one of those dinky little planes...


Fucking birds. They're overrated and useless.
 
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I was supposed to take a flight on that exact same plane 2nite to Arizona but my trip got canceled earlier this week. Those people are lucky as hell that they had a good pilot and they didn't crash into anything.
 
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I rode one of them small planes from Seattle to Vancouver before. Scary ass shit. Hella turbulence. I was on edge the whole damn flight.

And some dude was being interviewed live, what a sav. Guy asked him what it was like, he said "scary as shit!" . lmao.