These two photos of today's plane totally amaze me

[Whoa_Nelly]

Am in awe of Captain Sully! :patriot:

[Ptah]

1. I heart humans!

[bluesbassman]

2. No wonder the plane went down, there were too many people on the wings!

For sure though, bravo to the Captain for getting it down safely.:applause:

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Worst. Re-enactment. EVER.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. ***snort***

:spray:

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. When the monster brings his Verizon network, it's just not the same

:shrug:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Is this what happens if you use your cell phone

during takeoff?

I'll have to stop doing that!

:hi:

[applegrove]

5. What a good news story about an airplane for once. I hope it is a sign

that things will go well for America in the next 8 years.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. I hope it's a message taken that we need to make sure we more people like Sully around

and all the people who immediately went to work on the rescue simply because they were in the area, and the actual rescue teams that arrived so quickly and acted in tandem with all that was going on.

We need to put more money into these types of people, those who are willing to work to in Pay It Forward mode.


It all come out fortuitously and extremely well.

:hi: applegrove!

(love your name! ;) )

[applegrove]

12. Absolutely. Emulate the people fighting the good fight. Make them heroes rather

than testosterone laden Rumsfield types (who was a hero early on in the Bush administration).

[Arugula Latte]

8. I used to think that "water landing" stuff in the emergency info. in plane seat pockets was pure B.S

The drawings of a plane floating nicely on the water always seemed like pure propaganda designed to pacify passengers.

But ... Wow. It really did happen. :wow:

[undeterred]

15. That's what I thought too...

Yeah, my seat cushion is a flotation device. And I'm Michael Phelps.

[Parche]

it had to be a catastrophic bird strike

to disable both engines, the plane turned into a glider

if that happened at PDX, they would probably ditch in the Columbia

:hi: :hug:

[Parche]

16. it had to be a catastrophic bird strike

to disable both engines, the plane turned into a glider

if that happened at PDX, they would probably ditch in the Columbia

:hi: :hug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. Shatner was right to be freaked out.

[RandomThoughts]

13. This picture is more relevant to your comment.

[arcadian]

11. Is the only time a water landing ever worked?

n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. "Miracle on the Hudson" Only Second Water Landing in History Without Fatalities

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1394292/miracle_on_the_hudson_only_second_water.html

Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger Already Had an Impressive Resume
As the public learns more and more about the impressive resume of pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger , the more that is learned about airplane crashes makes his "Miracle on the Hudson" landing even more impressive. Every airplane that has made a water crash - landing in recent memory has had at least one fatality involved. That is because there has only been one other recorded incident of a plane crashing or landing on water where no one was killed.

The New York Daily News reports that, according to Emilio Corsetti, author of 35 Miles From Shore, the only other time that a passenger jet landing in water and all survived was in 1963 when a Russian Aeroflot flight landed in a river near St. Petersburg, Russia. All 53 people aboard survived the crash.

Which makes Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger's accomplishment even that much more miraculous.