Friday, January 16, 2009

Plane Crash in NY

Very exciting story in the news:

All Survive Jet's Splashdown in Hudson River

Airbus Carrying 155 People Apparently Hit Geese Minutes After Takeoff From New York


"You'd hear thump-thump-thump-thump, and then the pilot came on, and all he said was, 'This is the captain speaking. Brace for impact,'
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Thus began the drama of US Airways Flight 1549, which was apparently crippled by a midair encounter with geese and ditched into the Hudson River within minutes of takeoff from La Guardia Airport. Facing life-and-death choices, the pilot steered away from a catastrophic crash in the Bronx or in northern Manhattan, but the 155 passengers and crew soon faced new peril as their 80-ton aircraft began to sink in the river's frigid gray current.
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Most of the passengers stood in shirtsleeves, fleeing without their life jackets, and a few fell into 36-degree water on a day when the air temperature barely reached 20 degrees. Some passengers began to wail, but witnesses described a scene of level-headed teamwork to rescue the weak and infirm, including an infant and an elderly woman in a wheelchair.
Due to the valiant efforts of heroic crew and passengers, not a single life was lost, and the elderly woman discovered she no longer needed her wheelchair once she washed up on the shore of the mystical island of Manhattan.

This momentary sense of victory and accomplishment was short-lived however, as less than an hour after the crash, a monster ate the pilot. Later that night, shoeless transients attacked the survivors, and kidnapped all the children. Police are attempting to locate the missing children, but the investigation has been seriously impeded by the fact that over half the passengers are con-men or fugitives. The only clues left at the scene were a fake beard, a polar-bear-suit, and a pregnancy test, all with a tags reading "Dharma Novelty Corp".

For up-to-the-minute coverage of the the survivor's ongoing plight, tune into ABC on January 21st.

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