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three minutes and three thousand feet seems scary.
The pilot should get a medal and a blowjob (or other sexual favor if it’s a woman).
@1: Nah, even in an airplane that’s pretty slow. Consider how quickly express elevators move. If they could go up as high as 1,000 feet, the speed would be a little faster.
Unless, of course, you’re afraid of elevators too, in which case, don’t consider that.
I still think medal. 3000 feet and over 70 freaked out people…
Whoa, check out the role that Twitter can play in breaking news like this:
Ha. Not just for 13-year-old girls.
What is a “fucking medal”?
Most importantly, he dropped 3000 feet while reducing ground speed. Dropping while accelerating wouldn’t have a rosy outcome.
Nobody died.
I think only Hump has such a medal, tho.
Terrorist geese, who snuck across the border from Canada, caused this. Canada is a failed state (it doesn’t even have a functioning Parliament), so W will launch a “shock ‘n’ awe” bombing campaign tonight through Monday night.
The pilot “ditched.” He or she did not crash. Ditch = controlled flight under distress into water.
@6 what I got after doing your mom.
Ditch, smitch. The passengers said it felt like being in a car crash. That’s good enough for me.
He landed it in the river, and not on the building where my office is located, and for that I am grateful.
@9 – so, you think Harper set them up for this … well, it is possible … he does hate Democracy.
Jargon is correct, the pilot did “ditch” – the plane is intact. Pretty amazing that it was done with both engines having been blown out.
New York is within the Canadian Geese’s Atlantic Flyway. Though feeding geese typically fly at 100 to 1000 feet on feeding flights, pilots have seen them at up to 9000 feet.
I’m totally paying attention to the safety instructions next time I fly.
@15, it’s Canada Geese, not Canadian (their nationality is unknown and irrelevant to the case). Yes, I know it’s pedantic, but this frequent mistake drives me nuts.
touche. i blame my love of nationalities.
Mythbusters said that in plane crashes your legs are likely to be broken because the seats are now so close together. True/false?
GW didn’t even mention this in his farewell address hours after it happened, I bet this pilot will be a guest at Obama’s State Of The Union.
@19, the pictures show lots of folks standing on the wing after the crash. either they’re really tough, or this situation varied from the MB scenario in some key way.
Go a little deeper into the webpage for the flighttracker view of it ending up in the river
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE15…
AND the third leg of this flight after Charlotte, North CArolina?
SEATAC
and the passengers that helped each other get out w/out panicking deserve medals as well.