DC--> NY plane crash?

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 (22 minutes ago)

I'll go with this, I think. I think it's a pretty fucking amazing story.

yeah i'm just being a dick, the today show never has any news on it anyways

The alternative 'stories' are Obama Takes Oath in 4 Days and Israel -- Whaddya Gonna Do?

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...

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

heard it ws a viral for new season of LOST

can ne1 confirm?

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

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/

wait did gremlins cause the plane crash?

http://www.greenballoon.net/uploaded_images/shatner_twilight_zone-719871.jpg

Guy on the right looks amazed at Shatner's bad acting...

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

Guy on the right looks amazed at Shatner's bad acting...

― snoball, Friday, January 16, 2009 4:08 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^ oh man so rong

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1928/90/60/1485520053/n1485520053_30168835_3608.jpg

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 (9 hours ago) Bookmark

times new roman/arial, forgot that's how they did it

I thought of u when I saw that pic, louis

maybe the first officer was flying. DID ANYONE CONSIDER THAT POSSIBILITY?

Wild guess:

- Bird-hit plane circles and ditches in empty field outside Omaha = low-to-moderate news coverage

- Bird-hit plane circles and ditches in strip of river immediately alongside the most densely populated bit of the country, which also happens to be a media center and just generally looms large in the consciousness of people both at home and abroad, giving the whole thing something of the look of a film thriller = lots of news coverage

(Apologies if there is some more densely populated bit of the country I'm forgetting, but you know what I mean)

the visuals are key here. take away the visuals and this story gets a quarter the attention.

everyone would have died if it ditched in a field in Omaha, no rescue ferries.

Population density for selected U.S. cities
Place Government type Density
Manhattan, New York Borough & County 25,850/km² 66,940/mi²
Guttenberg, New Jersey Town 21,961/km² 56,012/mi²
Union City, New Jersey City 20,454/km² 52,978/mi²
West New York, New Jersey Town 17,124/km² 44,352/mi²
Edgewater, Illinois 13,800/km² 35,743/mi²)
Brooklyn, New York Borough & County 13,481/km² 34,917/mi²
The Bronx, New York Borough & County 12,242/km² 31,709/mi²
Hoboken, New Jersey City 11,675/km² 30,239/mi²
Back Bay/Beacon Hill, Massachusetts 11,463/km² 29,690/mi²)
New York City, New York City 10,194/km² 26,403/mi²

the visuals were all fucked up by those boats in the way, tho

they would have been better in a field, w/o boats

the visuals are key here. take away the visuals and this story gets a quarter the attention.

this goes for every news story ever, afaik

^^^
indeed

beacon hill is a tiny neighborhood wtf

well it's population density, so population/area

right?

Okay, the Hudson is a tiny strip amid several of the most densely populated bits of the country, making it both a noteworthy and weirdly convenient place to ditch a plane.

a little too convenient if you ask me.

everyone would have died if it ditched in a field in Omaha, no rescue ferries.

um they wouldn't have needed boats then, they could have just gotten off the plane.

and sunk into the soft dirt. wake up, jordan.

nabisco, i was backing up your OTM there

Jordan why do you want America to have no heroes?

you can land a large a plane in a field without everyone dying

apparently lga is supposed to be more prone to birdstrike given marshes in the area. i would think that applies more to jfk.

guys if it ditched out over a field #1 bro sully sullenberger the 18th would've just landed the damn plane HELLOOOOOO

- Bird-hit plane circles and ditches in empty field outside Omaha = low-to-moderate news coverage

- Bird-hit plane circles and ditches in strip of river immediately alongside the most densely populated bit of the country, which also happens to be a media center and just generally looms large in the consciousness of people both at home and abroad, giving the whole thing something of the look of a film thriller = lots of news coverage

Nabisco OTM with one very notable exception: UA 232 in Sioux City, Iowa 7/19/89

Keep in mind that's supposed to be a SUCCESSFULL crash landing.

I remember watching a doumentary about that sioux city crash landing, a bunch of amazing stories from people who walked off the wrecked plane with minor injuries, or in a few cases no injuries at all. One guy even spotted his hold luggage on the runway, and picked it up as he left the crash site.

Information theory tells us that amount of information = improbability of event*, so yes, emergency landing in heavily populated area with exactly 0 x casualties is indeed very newsworthy!

*) mad simplified

I liked Rachel Maddow's bit on this last night.

the coast guard released a new video that shows a bit of the "landing" and lots of the immediate reaction. The first ferry gets to the plane really quickly. Pretty amazing.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/17/nyregion/1231545504174/coast-guard-video-of-plane-crash.html

Keep in mind that's supposed to be a SUCCESSFULL crash landing.

It was amazingly successful, considering the plane had no hydraulic systems at all. No way to steer it except with the engines. If you want to get all tense and maybe have a good cry at the end, I recommend the episode of Errol Morris's First Person.

part 1 here, links to the rest of it below

if thats the only video of the crash i see i might go on a random stabbing spree - thx tho sc better than nothing

^^

security cam footage where the shit goes out of the screen right as it lands is all we have of the pentagon crash on 9/11

this whole surveillance society has been way over sold

http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/major/35790-problem-flight-1549-your-thoughts.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/18/nyregion/18plane.xlarge3.jpg

chilly.

if thats the only video of the crash i see i might go on a random stabbing spree

haha I watched that for my girlfriend. "Don't bother," I advised after. I took the bullet.

Kenan = hero