USCG Vessel
Traffic Camera footage of Hudson River ditching AS IT
HAPPENS. Hosted by YouTube
US Airways Flight 1549 was a commercial passenger flight from
New York City's LaGuardia Airport bound for Charlotte, North Carolina that
ditched in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan on January 15, 2009. Through
the skill of the controllers, flight crew, and rescuers, all 155 on board
survived.
While in the flight's initial climb out about two minutes after taking off at
3:25 p.m. EST, the Airbus 320, registered as N106US and carrying the callsign of
"Cactus 1549", struck a flock of Canada Geese at about 3,000 feet resulting in
an immediate loss of thrust from both engines. When the pilots concluded that
their airliner would be unable to safely reach any airfield from their altitude
and location near the George Washington Bridge, they turned south and headed
down the river looking for a place to ditch. After gliding for about eight miles
in essentially unpowered flight, the aircrew set the airliner down intact in
mid-river at 3:31 pm near the USS Intrepid Museum at Pier 86 in midtown
Manhattan. All 150 passengers and five crew safely evacuated the cabin and were
rescued from the partially submerged plane by the crews of nearby commercial and
rescue watercraft.
Ingredient
Meaning
Amount
Grey Goose vodka
Symbolizes the two engines knocked out by bird
strike
"2 shots"
Cold water
Symbolizes the ditching into water of the plane.
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