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Doesn't want to say anything that would help the people they will try to hang later!

Thank goodness for clear skies and daylight on top of a crew doing it right.

Couldn't pick a better city or place if one had to ditch, aside from the winter temps. I bet the NYPD have it up on the gear with a big yellow boot on the wheel in a towing lot before the NTSB Go Team can get there.

7 plus years and no one can build the monument, but the first responders and average joes on the streets/docks/piers are still the best.

More like commuter wages, not commuter plane. Guess the Skybus effect is still here.

From Wiki:

Most large commercial jet engines include design features that ensure they can shut-down after "ingesting" a bird weighing up to 1.8 kg (4 lb). The engine does not have to survive the ingestion, just be safely shut down. This is a 'stand alone' requirement, i.e., the engine must pass the test, not the aircraft. Multiple strikes on twin engine jet aircraft are very serious events, they can disable multiple aircraft systems, requiring emergency action to land the aircraft.

Modern jet aircraft structures must be able to withstand one four pound bird collision; the empennage (tail) must withstand one 8 pound bird collision. Cockpit windows on jet aircraft must be able to withstand one 4-pound-bird collision without yielding or spalling.

At first, bird strike testing by manufacturers involved firing a bird carcass from a gas cannon and sabot system into the tested unit. The carcass was soon replaced with suitable density blocks, often gelatin, to ease testing. Currently testing is mainly conducted with computer simulation, although final testing usually involves some physical experiments.

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Good God, find some girls.....dont talk about planes either!!!!!

Yeah, the media never fails....to fail. Some of the "expert" comments coming out of the local Boston channels is just down right entertaining.

Great job by all of the crew members involved. They didn't have a lot of time to put much thought into this one. :cool:

Stay tuned, I'm sure somebody has a video of this to share.

CNN eyewitness (he's a private pilot) reports:

- plane didn't have smoke trail
- hit water smoothly, bounced once
- L1 door opened almost immediately (interesting, considering a water ditching)
- overwing doors opened soon after
- great job by the crew (finally someone said it on air)

What speed would he have hit the water at?

It is a canned, prepared response that is used for any crash that says the same things for anything. That's just a natural thing to have prepared by an airline. "We will full support the FAA, NTSB........."