:bigclap: :lol: :lol: :lol: 
:lol: One final Bushism in before Tuesday.
On another note, that was a pretty impressive job by the pilot to glide it in powerless and manage to get a soft enough landing in the water that everyone got off safely.
How did he land that thing without shredding it? That is one tough plane.
Note to self: fly Airbus 320 when ever possible.
Edit: How are they going to get it out of there? Clip the wings? lol
He had to skip that thing like a rock to get it to slow down and keep it straight the whole time because what would shred the plan would be if one to the wings dipped into the water, it would either rip the wing off making a huge whole or make the plane rotate violently.
pool skimmer to remove?
National Transportation Safety Board member Kitty Higgins is briefing reporters in New York. Here are some high points.
• The NTSB has plans underway to remove the airplane from the water Saturday morning. “They’re out there now rigging the plane.”
Officials had hoped to lift the airplane sometime Friday, but “conditions are not most favorable,” she said.
• The airplane is sitting in 30 feet of water.
• A strong current has limited amount of time divers can spend in the water. The divers plan to work to midnight. Investigators hope to begin lifting the aircraft at 10 a.m. New York time Saturday.
• The plan is to put the jet on a barge, then remove the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder. Officials wanted to retrieve the recorders while the airplane was still in the water, “but that has not been possible.” The recorders are in the tail. “We know where they are,” but can’t remove them, she said.
• Once the airplane is up on the barge, the NTSB will document damage to the airplane. “There’s a lot of damage that’s not visible right now.”
• Then the NTSB will move the airplane to an undisclosed “secure location for further investigation.”’
• Once retrieved, the recorders will be flown to Washington where investigators will seek to download the data.
• Both engines have fallen off the airplane. Authorities had seen that one engine had fallen off. But divers told investigators that the second engine has also fallen off.
• Officials are using side-scan sonar as they are trying to locate the engines. The scan is starting at the point where airplane came down in the river, then moving down the river.
• Once investigators recover the engines, they’ll work with manufacturers to tear them down and check out what happened to them.
• Investigators were talking to cabin crew Friday. The NTSB intends to talk to pilots Saturday morning. Air traffic controllers were being interviewed Friday, with those interviews to continue Saturday.
• Crew drug testing has been completed, with samples sent to labs.
• The NTSB is working with the FBI, the city and others to retrieve any video “up and down the river” that might have captured the aircraft and accident.
• The NTSB people are aware of all the discussions about bird strikes, but are not prepared to make any conclusions or speculation about the cause of the crash, she said. “Everything’s on the table until we can start removing things,” Higgins said.
The briefing ended after 30 minutes.
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/notes-from-ntsb-briefing-on-us.html
Patterson just may have to put a special tax out on water landings now.
Shitty footage of this ma’ a fucka landing in the soup.
Bump for new video.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/23/hudson.plane.engine/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Seconds after it hit the water. Not sure what the guy who walked out on the wing and just dove into the water was thinking.
“I’m getting the fuck outta here.”