On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Roger Howard wrote: > Is there *any* precedence for such a safe landing on water for a major > commercial aircraft? I'd always heard that survivable water landings > were > quite rare and unusual for large aircraft... certainly in recent > times the > only crash landings on water I can recall were all devastating. > > I know small private aircraft can do it, though even then the damage > is > often extensive. >
The plane took a lot of damage, engines are missing it seems. They have it floating in the harbor right now. I was watching the rescue since it was viewable from my building. A big part of this is the fact the ferries diverted so quickly to help the people. If they were not there so quick it would have been much worse. They helped keep the thing afloat and got people off the wings/plane. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
