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