route: BIGGY J75
― shook pwns (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
plane is at BPC
― banned substance (gabbneb), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
i didnt know lj was a bird enthusiast
― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3200212112_6f171a70d3_o.jpg
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:12 (seventeen years ago)
All-New Ornithology Thread
lol that sorta makes me like him
― ﾞ（ﾟ､ ｡ ７ (cankles), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:14 (seventeen years ago)
Umm James I think an important point of comparison there is that flight 961 didn't turn out nearly as well
― nabisco, Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)
lol britishes
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:18 (seventeen years ago)
Looking to get right back into it after finishing college. Got the new updated bird guide and all.
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
Because they've changed the design of all the birds since the first one?
― snoball, Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:20 (seventeen years ago)
gotta find out what new birds are coming out in '09
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:21 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, so it's like playing Madden then?
― snoball, Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:25 (seventeen years ago)
climate change has effected so many range alterations since 1993, you wouldn't believe
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:25 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, good timing:
Airbus is preparing to offer incoming US president Barack Obama a special A380 superjumbo to replace the ageing Air Force One Boeing 747 jumbo jet, it emerged today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/15/airbus-obama-380-superjumbo
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:29 (seventeen years ago)
Ha, was just coming to post that!
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 January 2009 23:31 (seventeen years ago)
this was not an A380. not that the type of the plane or the manufacturer was relevant in this accident.
― banned substance (gabbneb), Friday, 16 January 2009 00:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/dca0012l.jpg
^^^ inside job btw
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Friday, 16 January 2009 01:20 (seventeen years ago)
this med student dork on CNN is making me embarrassed
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 16 January 2009 01:36 (seventeen years ago)
Smoking Gun has the Captain's resume. Let's just say that if you're on an airplane and anything goes wrong, this is the guy you want.http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0115093hero1.html
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:15 (seventeen years ago)
pilot described in the daily news as a "stud" and a "rock star" by police source:
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/01/16/amd_sullenberger.jpg
Yeah essentially that is what i want a pilot to look like.
― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:24 (seventeen years ago)
pilot described in the daily news as a "stud" and a "rock star" by police source
i could see him playing a keytar in a bar band somewhere ...
― Mad Vigorish (Eisbaer), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:27 (seventeen years ago)
michelle malkin posted this story on her site and commenters were basically thanking God he didn't lose his pilot's license to affirmative action, zinging him for being a visiting scholar at berkeley, and saying 'god wasn't his co-pilot, god today took flying lessons from him.'
― shook pwns (omar little), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:27 (seventeen years ago)
If you go to http://www4.passur.com/lga.html and search to about 15:26pm, you'll see the flight. He gets up to around 3400 feet, and then makes an immediate 180 trying to get back to La Guardia. Seeing that was impossible, he headed for the Hudson, and very nearly collided with a Eurocopter flying north at 1000 feet along the river. The copter pilot dodged out of the way, then circled back to where the plane hit the water.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:40 (seventeen years ago)
sully's cell prefix is 925, making him a bay area resident
― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･) °~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:59 (seventeen years ago)
feel kinda bad for the birds...
― henry s, Friday, 16 January 2009 04:12 (seventeen years ago)
Godsquad invading comments boards everywhere Thanking Him for saving these people and helping the pilot. Would have saved Him a lot of bother if He had just moved the birds out of the way.
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 16 January 2009 09:38 (seventeen years ago)
he must've been feeling especially good about gay sex yesterday
― jordy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 16 January 2009 09:44 (seventeen years ago)
i have the today show on and apparently this is the only thing that happened yesterday
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:38 (seventeen years ago)
ya i mean if there had been fatalities then major news story sure but the british papers have this all over the first 4-5-6 pages when actually the entire story would be best served by youtube publication and sully.jpg alone
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:40 (seventeen years ago)
looked to be only about 700ft between the jet and the helicopter o_O
tht coulda been bad
― cozwn, Friday, 16 January 2009 13:46 (seventeen years ago)
it's a pretty big deal lj, all air crashes are pretty big news
an air crash on american soil, in new york going to be doubly big news
― cozwn, Friday, 16 January 2009 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
dude there was a fatal crash in NYC (200 or so dead) about 10 months after 9/11 and once they established it wasn't terrorist there was an eerie media silence
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:50 (seventeen years ago)
and it's insincere to pretend that the british media treat all air crashes equally, aeroflot send one down seemingly every other week and sometimes it gets a leading article on page 7
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
basically blah miracle blah amazing SHOW ME THE YOUTUBE
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
^^real talk, unfortunately xposts to lj's first
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
just waiting for 4chan to impact-font-subtitle sully.jpg with something like AIRLINE PILOTS...LOOK AT THIS AWESOME MOTHERFUCKER or whatever
― single-issue white nonhipster (country matters), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:55 (seventeen years ago)
it's definitely a big story but except for occasional weather updates they spent literally the entire first hour of the today show on this story
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 January 2009 13:59 (seventeen years ago)
i don't know i think the fact that an airliner full of people crashed in a fucking river and everyone survived is worth taking a day off from 'news of importance' to celebrate.
― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
where is the video of it landing tho - how can this not exist
― ice cr?m, Friday, 16 January 2009 14:20 (seventeen years ago)
^^^
― cozwn, Friday, 16 January 2009 14:26 (seventeen years ago)
― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:05 (22 minutes ago)
I'll go with this, I think. I think it's a pretty fucking amazing story.
― Pashmina, Friday, 16 January 2009 14:29 (seventeen years ago)
yeah i'm just being a dick, the today show never has any news on it anyways
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 January 2009 14:54 (seventeen years ago)
The alternative 'stories' are Obama Takes Oath in 4 Days and Israel -- Whaddya Gonna Do?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 January 2009 15:21 (seventeen years ago)
CNN was great last night: Look at this fucking amazing plane crash where nobody dies! Look at it! And oh yeah, George Bush ruins everybody's TiVO one last time to brag about making the wrong decisions again.
NOw here's a guy who's an expert on gremlins...
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 15:54 (seventeen years ago)
i believe the plane was planted in the ocean a la LOST and this was just a ploy to distract us from the conflict in gaza
― cutty, Friday, 16 January 2009 15:57 (seventeen years ago)
heard it ws a viral for new season of LOST
can ne1 confirm?
― cozwn, Friday, 16 January 2009 16:00 (seventeen years ago)
American Airlines 587, crashed in Queens, and it was only 2 months later, November 12, 2001.
WSJ's frequent flier blog has an amazing set of photos: http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2009/01/15/us-airways-splashdown-in-new-york-pictures/
― lyra, Friday, 16 January 2009 16:02 (seventeen years ago)
wait did gremlins cause the plane crash?
http://www.greenballoon.net/uploaded_images/shatner_twilight_zone-719871.jpg
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Friday, 16 January 2009 16:07 (seventeen years ago)
Guy on the right looks amazed at Shatner's bad acting...
― snoball, Friday, 16 January 2009 16:08 (seventeen years ago)
Great photos, but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the one of the aircraft listing/sinking was wether or not there were any pets in the cargo hold.Comment by God Bless any Pets as Well - January 16, 2009 at 11:11 am
Well. So much for the feel-good story of the year.
http://www.theygay.com/images/celebs/debbie.bmp
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 January 2009 16:25 (seventeen years ago)