In the meantime, there's one helluva pilot somewhere out there in NYC
tonight.
US Air (still want to call it Piedmont) lost an Airbus A320 this afternoon.
Apparently flew into a flock of geese and got bird strikes on both
engines just after take-off & the pilot managed to keep it airborne long
enough to clear the Bronx. Didn't have enough to make any of the other
airports or return to LaGuardia, but they're calling his ditching in the
Hudson River "near perfect".
The crew got all 155 souls off without a major injury.
Circle Line and N.Y. Waterway ferries were Johnny-on-the-spot, and some
of the passengers didn't even get their feet wet.
Kudos to everyone responding from NYPD, FDNY and the US Coast Guard, as
well as all the other volunteers who pitched in, and especially to one
hell of a pilot.
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