US Airways A320 Lands In Hudson River

[Ephialtes]

You'll find it usually takes more than one bird to kill an engine, unless its an ostrich or something - but that'd raise more interesting questions than a planecrash.

[Ad Bot]

[|Shadow]

The geese did their duty to Allah.

Lol Hamburger said that.

fu hamburger

[Knifeman]

You'll find it usually takes more than one bird to kill an engine, unless its an ostrich or something - but that'd raise more interesting questions than a planecrash.

Or Emo Emus
They cut themselves.
Into little pieces!
Poor birds...

[ryanb31394]

Two in fact

One for each engine

It was flocks of geese. Not singular birds, I hope you realize that. :/

[Bisjac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-xnIMuZBlQ

[|Shadow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-xnIMuZBlQ

The chicken looks fake.

Also,
Inb4petacigarettes

[Bisjac]

fake my ass. tossing birds into jet engines to test them isn't anything new. go view the hundreds of videos.

jets can take in loads of birds, huge balls of ice, thousand liters of water a second.
this is what they are made for

[|Shadow]

fake my ass. tossing birds into jet engines to test them isn't anything new. go view the hundreds of videos.

jets can take in loads of birds, huge balls of ice, thousand liters of water a second.
this is what they are made for

it looks like sand flew out of the chicken

[Tom]

THe pilot had to be very skilled. Water landings usually result in the plane being torn apart. He also saved lots of lives by doing the water landing.

[Reactor Worker]

THe pilot had to be very skilled. Water landings usually result in the plane being torn apart. He also saved lots of lives by doing the water landing.

He didn't have much choice. He was in a city so it was either the water or buildings. That latter would have been more exciting.

As for the danger in a water landing...it's all dependent on speed and angle of descent. As it had just taken off and was at a low altitude and the pilot was aware of the engine trouble it is likely that he made all needed adjustments to speed and such.

[Tom]

Yeah, it probably did help that he was going slower and lower, but you still have to land pretty level or you'll be doing cartwheels.

HURRY UP NTSB

[JimJam]

you still have to land pretty level or you'll be doing cartwheels.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV7yE4hK2hI&feature=related

[Chriz]

twas me. i tossed a shoe at it.
take that modern science

Oh, so thats whose shoe it was.

[JimJam]

BUMP!
Video of it landing, caught by security cameras.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/usair.splash.video/index.html