US Airways客机起飞数分钟坠毁纽约哈德森河
(博讯北京时间2009年1月16日 转载)
美国US Airways一飞机1月15日下午3点26分从La Guadia起飞数分钟后坠落在纽约哈德森河。目击者称，飞机以几乎平行的角度滑落水中，因为速度极快，发出巨响。目前不知道伤亡情况。博讯会在此文更新进展。机上有146名乘客和5名乘务人员。
报道称，起飞后飞行员报告飞机和鸟相撞，估计是被吸入发动机。
有逃生的乘客称，所有乘客应该都逃离了飞机。目前河水温度在5度左右，如果全部逃生，将是奇迹。
官员称，所有人都得以逃生。
A US Airways jet en route from New York to Charlotte, N.C., crashed into the Hudson River off the west side of Manhattan with more than 150 people on board today.
U.s. Airways plane crashed into New York City＇s Hudson River
This video frame grab image taken from WNBC-TV shows a US Airways aircraft that has gone down in the Hudson River in New York, Thursday Jan. 15, 200i8. It was not immediately clear if there were injuries
New York City firefighters and passenger ferries responded to the crashed plane, which floated near the historic aircraft carrier, The Intrepid.
The flight, US Airways 1549, was an A-320 manufactured by Airbus was carrying as many as 146 passengers and five crew members, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The Port Authority and the FAA said the plane＇s pilot reported a bird strike shortly before the plane went down.
New York City police said the rescue operation was ongoing and commuter boats in the area were seen fishing people from the frigid waters and passengers standing on the plane＇s wings.
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The water temperature in river was 42 degrees, just above freezing.
John Ostrom of the Metropolitan Airports Commission out of Minneapolis chairs the Bird Strikes Committee which advises the aviation industry on wildlife management to eliminate possible hazards.
"There＇s a variety of ways a bird can take down a plane," he told ABC News today. "There have been instances where birds sizes of robins bring a plane down all the way up to Canada geese."
Birds can fly into plane engines, shutting them down, or cause pilots to lose control of the plane by penetrating the windshield. And there＇s not much pilots can do to avoid bird strikes, which happen "every day," according Ostrom.
Witness Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, said she thought, "Why is it so low?" And then, she said, "splash, it hit the water."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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