On January 15, 2009 the flight 1549 from New York (La Gardie Airport) to Seattle (Seattle-Tacoma Airport) with an intermediate stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, with 150 passengers on board, made an emergency landing water the Hudson River in New York. When US Airways Flight 1549 splashed into the Hudson River in January, the fuselage ruptured, sending water gushing into the cabin. Passengers, some with water up to their necks, struggled to reach exits. Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, sucking birds into both engines. The plane was at about 2,800 and less than five miles from LaGuardia. Sullenberger told the board on Tuesday that he didn’t try to return to the airport or try to reach other airports across the river in New Jersey because he thought, “I cannot afford to be wrong.” Instead of risking a crash in a densely populated area, he glided the plane into a landing near Manhattan’s ferry terminals, to increase the chances of rescue. The plane descended into the Hudson at a rate more than three times what the structure of the A320 was designed to withstand on impact with water, and yet the plane remained mostly intact.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:55:12 +0000
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