Comments on: US Airways 1549 Crash Video

By: John

John — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:52:23 +0000

Umm…if, I’m not mistaken it’s “United States Coast Guard” which would be USCG, not “USGC”….FAIL!

By: jtouran

jtouran — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:24:19 +0000

Thank you very much! We needed that to be corrected.

By: doodelhooman

doodelhooman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:25:19 +0000

You ever tried to fly a plane? Don’t think so. You can’t just STOP “before they hit the water” in MIDAIR. Considering the circumstances, the pilot did an excellent job.

By: doodelhooman

doodelhooman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:04:32 +0000

yes, geese got sucked into the engines. in addition to it being frickin’ cold enough up there (in the sky over NY/Hudson River) to freeze a few parts of the plane

By: doodelhooman

doodelhooman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:58:40 +0000

There were also atmospheric conditions that made it hard to both see and avoid the geese. Not to mention it’s a PLANE, which is MUCH harder than driving a car!

By: jamo5

jamo5 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:13:07 +0000

This is an amazing story. The video of everyone standing on the wing’s is just crazy. I’ve found a few ‘reconstruction’ animations of the event such as this one:

By: thinkingman

thinkingman — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:13:56 +0000

A unavoidable accident with a amazing pilot and crew. I agree big Amen and prayers of thanks to them all. With the captian the last one off and checking to see nobody left behind the deserve a medal.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:49:26 +0000

Um, no.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:49:20 +0000

Did someone post a comment like yours before you did? Cause it looks
suspiciously like someone did…

By: prrrrp

prrrrp — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:46:44 +0000

Did someone rebuild the twin towers without anyone noticing? Cause it looks suspiciously like them in the back ground

By: SILLY_YOU

SILLY_YOU — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:51:35 +0000

COMMENTS WILL NOT NEST BELOW THIS LEVEL!

By: inuneko

inuneko — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:03:27 +0000

agreed.

By: brainfire

brainfire — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:28:04 +0000

EPIC WIN!1!

By: alcidaho

alcidaho — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:46:30 +0000

Oh my god,when i seen thatt on the news you would have thought that the air plane would have sank but it’s just amasing that no one died.There’s already to much drama already.I just wished that the man that saw the birds hit the plane would have sed something to the captin before hand.So maybe they would stoped before they hit the water.

By: clergyman

clergyman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:24:38 +0000

HAHA viking size clothing.. no disresepct the gals a beast

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:12:48 +0000

No, he’s not referring to the Beatles song. He’s named after the other Maxwell Silverhammer.

By: p&wr2800

p&wr2800 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:40:38 +0000

Mine was a Sgt. assigned to the 33rd fighter sqd. Keflavik, Iceland, 1944-45. I grew up listening to tales of P-47s
with their R2800s roaring around the base.
Sadly, there are a pair of Thunderbolts near here (Knoxville, Tn) that he died before he got to see.
Your dad should be proud. The JT8D is an excellent jet engine.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:39:33 +0000

Alright, I’ve had two posts eaten. I think it’s damned unfair that
it apparently can’t be seen in some regions; I hate stupid stuff like that. If it’s going to be up in public, let anyone see it, damnit. Anyway, I have
posted a new version of the link behind my name (and maybe it’ll take
this time; I was trying to post it in the body). Maybe that will work.
If not, I’ll complain to Discovery Channel myself about it.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:37:12 +0000

Damnit, I think the site ate my post. If this is a double, please forgive. Anyway, I think it sucks that it doesn’t seem to work where you’re at – it should be available to anyone who wants to see it! I have a thing against _unfairness_.

But see if this version of the link works?

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/mayday/season-5/mayday-gimli-glider/

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:34:11 +0000

Conspiracy? C’mon!

How could you fail to see that they are, in fact, giant boobies???

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:31:16 +0000

MmmMmm. Carbonized protein residue…

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:28:32 +0000

My dad worked at Pratt in engineering when the JT8D was in development, but he finished his MBA and got kicked upstairs to financial when I was just starting elementary school. He’s long retired now though. My only lasting connection is that my primary bank account is still with the Aircraft’s credit union.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:28:03 +0000

There may be a few more pressing issues on the
agenda…

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:19:57 +0000

And can we not forget, on a typical day, approximately 1.2 buttloads of innocent bystanders, commonly referred to as people. Or after such an event, commonly referred to as carbonized protein residue.

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:14:04 +0000

Video’s not available in my region (northeastern US)

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:11:57 +0000

I gather there are rather few foreign countries Cheney will be able to travel to as a private citizen, for fear of having a warrant served on his undead evil ass.

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:09:13 +0000

Whether the flock of birds was big and dense enough to show on radar is one of the questions on the NTSB’s plate right now. If they were, there may be reas0on to blame the air traffic controllers if Sully wasn’t warned.

By: p&wr2800

p&wr2800 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:09:00 +0000

Negative.
My dad did, just think they’re the best recip aero engine ever built.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:54:35 +0000

i dont know nyc, what are they? i just thought cnn clipped old footage for the sake of ratings, which is no big, thanks for #1 and 2 though

By: slan agat

slan agat — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:15:23 +0000

So did you work for Pratt or fly Double Wasp-powered birds yourself?

By: p&wr2800

p&wr2800 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:03 +0000

The only real difference between a hero and a coward is timing. The hero has a come apart after the event.
the coward comes apart during the event.
We don’t know how many lives have been lost (or saved) because of timing.
Capt. Sullenberger, the crew and, in this case most of the passengers, are heros because their character, personality or whatever else, allowed them to get through the emergency before the shakes set in. My hat is off to every damned one of them.

By: inuneko

inuneko — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:01:16 +0000

yeah…….

By: Beatlesmania

Beatlesmania — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:50:47 +0000

Maxwell Silverhammer, i assume u’re refering to the Beatles song, right? i love that song! lol.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:58:19 +0000

Um. Is there supposed to be sound with this, BTW?

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:53:23 +0000

Stop trying to take credit away from the pilot and the Josh guy who had the sense
to read the instruction card. That’s the most sickening thing about religionists; someone REAL does good, but they insist all the credit goes to their imaginary
friend.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:43:01 +0000

Uncle, the story of Gimli Glider is still hiding behind my name. It’s my favourite
episode of “Mayday”. Just gotta share it.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:38:42 +0000

Frou – Don’t worry, French-Canadians don’t much like us
Anglo-Canadians, either. And nobody likes the Newfies much at all.

By: Isengrim

Isengrim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:33:48 +0000

Hiding behind my name is a video about the “Gimli Glider”, which also shows
the benefit of Air Force (Canadian in this case) training with a glider.

Only in this case, it wasn’t an errant flock of geese to blame, it was the
conversion to the metric system (bleah).

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:33:31 +0000

AS I’ve said before…

1) WTC is really still there and GWB claimed it was hit

2) It’s an illusion of the WTC by the Democrats to end the war without end, and introduce Sharia law before 2012

3) It’s another pair of towers and you lads don’t know NYC…

I favour the conspiracies as most likely… but hey…

By: Santos

Santos — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:26:54 +0000

I didn’t read all those comments, but all I know is that the pilot is set for life with the airlines… the flight patern he took went straight with the river, he knew he was going down and he knew what to do at that time, even after the flight was down and everyone was out, he walked the plane to make sure everyone was out… but are those the twin towers in the background like zack says…

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:06:13 +0000

UHMM< The twin towers are in the background

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:56:40 +0000

‘tits up’ – means you’ve fallen on your arse… obvious

anatomy FAIL! all round…

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:50:59 +0000

kk
There’s no God.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:48:36 +0000

god hated them… If he’d not got them in a plane crash, he’d have sent in the Touched By An Uncle crew to introduce their kids to crack and guns…

By: Quacker-Oatmeal

Quacker-Oatmeal — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:31:36 +0000

Amazing.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:34:49 +0000

There’s no God.

As I posted above:
====================
Re. the question of credit, check this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/nyregion/17flight.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=passengers%20exit%20door&st=cse
“Some passengers screamed, others tucked their heads between their knees, and several prayed over and over, “Lord, forgive me for my sins.” But a man named Josh who was sitting in the exit row did exactly what everyone is supposed to but few ever do: He pulled out the safety card and read the instructions on how to open the exit door.
US Airways Flight 1549 smacked the Hudson River the way a speedboat lands after jumping over a wake — with a thud that rattled teeth and nerves and stunned the cabin silent. It was as if everyone was waiting for someone else to shout in pain, and no one did.
Then Josh stood up. “Someone tried to pull the door in,” another passenger recalled, “and he said, ‘No, you’ve got to throw it out.’ He twisted it and threw it out.’ ””
===================

Put one of those “Lord, forgive me for my sins” people in the exit row and a couple of dozen people from the back of the plane drown in the cold Hudson. Put Josh there, and all 155 are rescued.

“God” had nothing to do with this, and it’s pretty damned sick of you to try to use this kind of event as promotion for your childish little club. Learn to behave like an adult, kid.

By: Phoneboy

Phoneboy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:48:13 +0000

I’m sure I see your point. There are tons of fail pics involving car accidents. Those folks were in trauma. And why did the same blog post this?

http://failblog.org/2008/06/03/tour-de-fail/

I can absolutely see this being in poor taste, but when everyone is OK, you can make fun of it, much like this one:

http://failblog.org/2009/01/05/double-fail/

The guy on the bike is NOT ok, but we still laugh at the person who fell on their ass, even though they were probably in shock after seeing what happened.

And I’m willing to bet the guy who fell off the wing of the plane able to laugh about it with his family, so take the stick out of your butts – you sound like Republicans.

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:23:11 +0000

They’re carpet bombing CIA headquarters in the war against state sponsored terrorism and handing Kissenger over to The Court of Human Rights?

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:23:01 +0000

“Arse up” makes more sense to me than ‘tit’s up’, for things going badly. I get mental images of head-first into a snowbank from that… (of course, I was just shoveling snow, so maybe that is why?)

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:19:11 +0000

Even my mother laughed at that one!