mike_s
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this in the news about the flight and what US air is doing.
U.S. Airways sends $5,000 to passengers in crash-landing - CNN.com
U.S. Airways sends $5,000 to passengers in crash-landing - CNN.com
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..... I guess a hero could be the engineer who designed the craft so hydraulics still worked after the engines quit......
Too true. I'll pilot or fly in 'most anything but I draw the line at Aeroflot. And as far as pilot Sully being a hero; that's what he's paid to do. He, and his kind, were heroes long before his A320 made the splash. Doesn't take a government program (or the news media) to declare HIM a hero.Hell, Aeroflot would put this baby back in the air, as is. Maybe duct tape on a rebuilt engine... or maybe not.
I really miss that NY area diving.Earlier on Wednesday, the city’s Police Department confirmed that a large object detected by sonar was the missing left engine that broke off from the jet after it landed in the waterway last week.
Two divers, equipped with hand-held sonar, followed an anchor line down more than 60 feet to the 16-foot-long and 8-foot-wide object, first detected on Monday. There, they came within a few feet of the object and were verbally directed closer to it by a police official on a launch who was monitoring their progress by watching the images from sonar.
The divers went into the water at 2:35 p.m and confirmed they had the engine within 10 minutes, surfacing by 3 p.m., a police spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. Visibility was six inches in front of them.
I've been involved in some jet turbine testing before and I'm surprised the engine didn't handle the bird in-take better.... (meaning it just "digested" the bird).
I don't know what kind of engine was on this particular A320, but the other engines I've seen tested they can shoot a chicken up there and it pretty much "takes it".
Of course a goose is slighly larger than a chicken, but not terribly.
I've been involved in some jet turbine testing before and I'm surprised the engine didn't handle the bird in-take better.... (meaning it just "digested" the bird).
I don't know what kind of engine was on this particular A320, but the other engines I've seen tested they can shoot a chicken up there and it pretty much "takes it".
Of course a goose is slighly larger than a chicken, but not terribly.