Flight 1549 Questions
Flight 1549 was the USAir airplane (Airbus A-320) that ditched into New York’s Hudson River on January 15, 2009.
We’re told all crew and passengers survived. And the media reminded us that the pilot (Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, III) was a hero and that the emergency landing was a miracle.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of questions about this flight that needs further inspection:
Where’s the plane?
Take a look at this snapshot… there are tugboats in the Hudson River where we’re told Flight 1549 came to rest, but there’s no plane:
Video of “crash landing”:
Notice the “plane” glide into the water at the 2:00 mark… totally faked. We know this because objects that hit water make waves… an Airbus commercial jet loaded with fuel and 155 passengers should have caused a mini-Tsunami in the Hudson River… yet this video shows hardly a ripple after ditching:
Direct link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mLKfRVU3qM
The moneyshot is Photoshopped
Take a look at the photograph seen around the world. Why is the USAir logo Photoshopped onto this aircraft (just asked a friend familiar with Photoshop to zoom in on the USAir logo to see the obvious cut and paste job):
Where’s the pilot outrage?
One of the most popular message boards for shop talk is AirlinePilotForums.com… yet there’s barely any talk about the ditching. Normally, this site is buzzing about any airplane crash:
Updated information about flight 1549:
Earlier engine problems
Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has learned.
Did this “event” get Flight 1549 taken out of service just days before it’s faked ditching?
Why would they fake the ditching of flight 1549?
Perhaps this nugget found in the might give us a clue:
“The last time a commercial aircraft flew that low over the Hudson River was immediately before terrorists deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.”
That’s called conditioning.
Additional sources related to Flight 1549
Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III website:
http://safetyreliability.com/about_us
Birds hitting engines:
Direct link to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBv-ph4820
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LT i think maybe this time its for real the plane is already in contact with the water before it comes into shot, the photoshopped picture is probably done by a newspaper just to get the best shot possible even if it is contrived it doesn\’t mean fake. also the plane just took off and the wings are filled with aviation oil which floats this would keep the wings above water.
This is probably why the pilot choose to put it down in the river the fuel tanks are full for a flight there is nowhere safe to drain it off so the river is the next best bet to stop a fire breaking out if the wings split.
Simon, you’re a clever boy, but you’re still a boy… and highly impressionable.
Please don’t think I’m trying to patronize you, I am not.
Just because it’s likely there were no planes on 9/11, doesn’t mean every aviation ‘incident’ is staged either.
Firstly, the missing plane in your first image. By the time there were that many boats on the scene, the majority of passengers had been safely taken from the wings and the plane itself has sunk quite a bit. Check this footage to see what I mean.
http://tinyurl.com/cncxx5 and check about 30 secs in.
Secondly, this ‘tsunami’ that would need to have been created when the plane entered the water. Not necessarily so at all in my view. Waves are created by storms or by displacement through objects hitting the water, but how big a wave isn’t just down to size of the object. It’s trajectory and velocity have a major bearing on this. Think about skimming a stone over the water compared to throwing a stone in an arch.
Thirdly, about the livery being photoshopped. I know you got this from Markus Allen, and if you didn’t, he would have surely have encouraged your viewpoint on this. If it is, please do us the favour of putting a different livery on the plane, just to prove how easy it is….
And lastly, I don’t know if birds or other technical faults brought the plane down, and frankly I care even less. This is probably the same reason why the pilot forum is keeping out of it…
Outrage? No.