Video: The U.S. Airways splashdown
posted at 11:00 am on January 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Suitably Flip. Pay attention to the left side of the frame starting at around 2:00; evidently this is as close as we’re going to get to a shot of the actual landing. There were no tourists with camcorders walking around the west side of Manhattan on Thursday afternoon? The Intrepid’s right there and was open for business at the time. No one on the deck thought to snap a shot of the jet descending right over their heads?
Captain Hero and his family are on their way to the inauguration, apparently. Exit quotation: “I know at our house, we watch the news and day after day, we’d say. ‘I just don’t know how much more bad news we can take.’ And so not only am I glad my husband is happy, healthy and alive today, but just for the nation, I just didn’t want to have another bad news accident for anybody’s family.”
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Haven’t read all the comments to see if this was mentioned but at about 3:12 the first guy out heads to the end of the wing and it looks like he takes a dive into the water! A few seconds later he thinks better of it and climbs back up on the wing.
pleaseandthankyou on January 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Where they finally got the plane tied up is about 400 yards from Ground Zero, separated only by the World Financial Center buildings between the Hudson River promenade and the WTC site.
jon1979 on January 17, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Look at the video again. What are those two buildings in the background of the first part of the video?
baldilocks on January 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM
The skyline is what I’m referring to.
baldilocks on January 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM
All passengers and crew survived without serious injury and the only thing you can do is complain because someone didn’t grab a camera to record it better for you to show? Maybe they didn’t think of it as they were trying to rescue the people from the icy waters.
Jeanette on January 18, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Ouch!
baldilocks on January 18, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Are you asking about the two twin buildings? That’s the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle (59th and 8th).
flip on January 18, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Re Diogenes:
Abso-frickin-lootely.
I rode that ferry for three years, and never hesitated in the competence in those who were quietly aboard with me, the whole time.
I have a coupon for a free drink at the (somewhat) new Fudruckers (finally!!!) at Port Imperial…
Anyone wanna come and hang out sometime this week? We’ll have beers, have cheeseburgers (GOOD ONES)- and look right out at the spot of the miracle amidst those who helped it come about.
It’ll… it’ll be… “Hot Air on the Waterway”.
Buehler?
Just know we’ll be there Monday, after work. Jersey side.
Beers & burgers.
…and punch and pie.
ChipDWood on January 18, 2009 at 1:31 AM
That’s what they look like. Not an old video of WTC.
flip on January 18, 2009 at 1:32 AM
The Intrepid is no longer ‘open for business’, as far as I know. They shut it down a few years back, don’t remember why. I think they were going to tow it away and fix it up a bit. Maybe it’s back by now? Not sure. My brother-in-law used to sell personalized dog tags to tourists on it. Too bad he wasn’t there, we would have recorded the whole thing.
syg6 on January 18, 2009 at 3:51 AM
What’s gonna happen when they find out those geese were guided robots…huh?
eeyore on January 18, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Can you imagine being the ferry pilot?
Those guys and the pilot of thwe plane, and the NYFD NYOD NYCG all are heros.
Ugly on January 18, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Grr
NYFD NYPD NYCG & the pilot and the ferry pilots, one and all
Ugly on January 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM
In a shocking turn of events PETA has filed a complaint against the hero pilot, charging him with cruelty to animals. Anonymous PETA spokesman expressed shock over the “reckless disregard” the pilot showed toward the geese population.
Developing…..
Inzax on January 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM
The Intrepid Museum is back open for business. The ship was towed away to drydock for two years, but it’s back. President Bush spoke at there on Veteran’s Day for the re-opening ceremony.
juliesa on January 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Thanks for the info about the skyline. /non-New Yorker
baldilocks on January 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Ok, I’m going to open up a small can of worms. I watched one of the survivors on tv being interviewed and he said that while he was in the water, he texted a message to his wife. Is it just me, or is this person HORRIFICALLY STUPID?! If you thought you only had seconds or minutes to live, would you be punching one letter at a time into a tiny keyboard aboard a sinking plane, or would you JUST FREAKING CALL HOME????? What on earth is this STUPID fascination with texting? Here this guy could have called home and said, “Honey, I love you, the plane has crashed in the water, it’s filling up, I’m waiting my turn to get out. If I don’t make it…..” BUT NNNNOOOOOOO. DIMWIT starts punching up, I space am space. It never seemed to have occurred to him to just call. If you’re spouse were on a plane crash, wouldn’t you want to hear their voice that one last time instead of an impersonal electronic telegram?
I don’t get it. Is it just me?
/rant
Bikerken on January 18, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Jeanette, consider having a little patience with your video-blog host when he expresses some disappointment with the quality of the video he has available this time. He’s aware that “[a]ll passengers and crew survived without serious injury,” and that’s precisely the reason he wishes he had better video of the crash. Moreover, being a new member, as it seems, you’re ill-equipped to pick up the emotional tone of the writers here, especially Allahpundit. He was making a dry joke. Learn to appreciate dry remarks if you can, Jeanette, but until you do, leave critique of the host to those who understand him better.
Kralizec on January 18, 2009 at 9:23 PM
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