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[major_clanger]

Live coverage on BBC 24 etc: A320 Airbus ditched in Hudson river, looks like successful evacuation in progress.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it. Interviews saying massive birdstrike leading to power loss in both engines. The eye witnesses to the landing say that it looked perfect.

Sounds like he had time to get the gear up.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Successful water landing and full safe evacuation - astounding!

And just when Boinboing was commenting on the seven year run free of fatal air liner crashes in the US.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Pilot's getting the key to New York. The least he deserves, I say.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't usually the floating, it's getting them down on water without ripping them open. The 767 sea landing about 10 years ago is an interesting example.

I'd have said that you couldn't manage the landing... but congrats to the pilots and the designer.