On Jan 16, 8:12*am, willshak wrote:
on 1/16/2009 5:51 AM (ET) Jimw wrote the following:

Off Topic, but hardware related.

It's been all over the news about theplanethat crashed into a river
in (I think) New York. *

In the Hudson River by NYC. It is considered a crash, but becauseof the
expertise of the pilot, it was more of a landing in the water. . . (snip)

Bill

The professional pilots at

http://www.pprune.org

are really impressed by the pilot and his airmanship. Airliners
don't do well at all in water landings.

And he did some really impressive flying before he ditched. Low
altitude, engine-out, 90 degree turns like the one he pulled off to
miss the buildings etc tend to be deadly in planes that big.

Regards
Jason