Thursday, 15 January 2009
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Plane Crash Hits Close to Xanga Office!
by Anne 
US Airways Flight 1549 carrying 151 passengers on board crashed into the Hudson River about 5 minutes after take off at 3:26pm from La Guardia Airport in New York City very close to our office.
The cause of the crash appears to be a horrible accident due to a flock of birds and is not terror-related.
When the plane went down into the cold waters of the Hudson River, the weather outside was about 20 degrees, but felt less with cold wind chills. Boats nearby instantly sprang into action and police and fire crews arrived on the scene worked frantically to send divers into the water to rescue the 146 passengers and 5 crew members.
Some passengers have been seriously injured, but it has been confirmed that they were able to retrieve everyone out of the waters. Thank goodness! At this moment, rescuers are working on bringing the passengers to dry land and warmed up to prevent hypothermia.
Our hearts go out to the passengers and a big appreciation to the rescuers and their quick response!
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- Name: anne
- About Me: Age: 27, Location: New York, NY Favorite places I've visited: Trick question! I've been to so many amazing places, but if I absolutely had to pick, I'd settle on a couple places to shorten the list. Madrid, Spain because that's where I did my study abroad program when I was 18 and it was there that the travel bug bit me so hard it left a scar. I haven't been the same since. And Vietnam. That's where my family is from. Although, I'm Vietnamese American, I never actually visited Vietnam until I was 26. It was an awesome experience to learn about my family's history and I was quite pleased to show off my vietnamese language skills to the locals. It's quite a big deal for an american-born.
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Comments (17)
I was reading the news article about it on another site and I am glad to see that got everyone to safety.
I had no idea a flock of birds could damage a plane like that! I'm sooo grateful the pilot, crew and passengers are all ok. It would have been an entirely different story if that plane crashed on land. =O Thank goodness for quick thinking and fast acting rescuers!
these must have been terrorist birds! nice try you evil avians!
fuck birds.
I just got a text message about this, whewwww glad everyone was ok!
I love to fly, but man it's scary when you hear about mishaps like this, birds? Dam!
I actually just finished watching this story on three news channels (its at 5:30 p.m. Thursday right now) and my family and I were horrified at the sight. We couldn`t believe that birds were to blame for this! We`re so glad everyone was okay.
So glad this was not near the tragedy it could have been,glad the boats were there for them!
thank goodness the nypc squad and fire department were there in time to save the people. omg..i would be so pissed off if i died due to flock of damn seagulls. -.-
A flock of birds? Seriously?
I heard about this too! Thank God they all made it! To think of what could have been is too scary for words.
What probably happened was during take off, they probably ran into a flock of seagulls. We wont know until the official report is out but since this happened 5 minutes after, that was probably it. There's usually no birds up at the maximum of which a plane flies.
--->MiNA<3
P.S: KUDOS to the pilots for an awesome landing!! And KUDOS to the fast rescue response!!
I heard about this while at work. It's great to hear that everyone survived.
2009 is looking to be a good year. Not that the accident was good but everyone survied the crash.
thank god everyone survived
who knew birds can do that type of damage >.<
I was sitting at work when I read the article on CNN earlier today. It's a miracle that everyone survived. God was watching over them.
it was a double bird strike so they got both engines. I give major props to that pilot. He did an awesome job. God was definitely watching over that plane!
amazing story, although it is starting to get over played. big - hero of a pilot and all passengers and crew were safely resued, truly amazing feat for captain sully and crew
poor birds :[