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nimbus
If anyone is interested, here's a link to the CNN videos that showed the excellent water landing of the aircraft and the passensgers standing on the wings while the ferry was approaching to assist.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/usair.splash.video/index.html
presto345
The pilot will go down in history. He is a true hero. *** On a different note, isn't that river, mass of murk, ever dredged, cleaned up?
Latenights
You'd "guess" right, Dickey, since LaGuardia hosts 71 flights per hour, if one percent of them were rendered inoperative by birdstrikes it would happen roughly every 90 minutes or so. It's like saying that Starbucks sold more than a thousand lattes last year...
Now that's out of my system, kudos to the pilot! I thought happy endings like this only happened in Hollywood!