punjabi_khota Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 ^It is so cold Blagovich cannot feel the heat of the Senate seat scandal. I mean, ****ING cold.
Holysmoke Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 yup. feels like 3F in NYC, and its -30 in college
graphic23 Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 yup. feels like 3F in NYC' date=' and its -30 in college[/quote'] My college is right next to the lake. It borders with it. :(( It was -1 max here but the winds were estimated to be -40 this early morning. :((
fineleg Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Anyways, back to the topic.. Dont they say that the probability of an commercial airliner going down in a bird-hit is something like 1 in 1 million or something? The Federal Aviation Administration says there were about 65,000 bird strikes to civil aircraft in the United States from 1990 to 2005, or about one for every 10,000 flights. How many go down? not sure.
punjabi_khota Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 The Federal Aviation Administration says there were about 65' date='000 bird strikes to civil aircraft in the United States from 1990 to 2005, or about [b']one for every 10,000 flights. How many go down? not sure. There were 650 million flights in 15 years ? That is 40 million flights every year ? Thats sounds wrong to me.
fineleg Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 ^ i got this data from news. dunno if they are wrong.
Holysmoke Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Its much more common than that. I had a bird strike my flight from Dallas to Champaign this year itself (2009).
Dravid Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 yea, its pretty common just saw a stat- around 90k planes hit by birds since 1990, 9k+ caused serious damage, 200 deaths
Ram Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Its incidents like these that makes your respect for the West grow manifold. The pilot did an amazing job landing the plane in the water in the first place, but we shouldn’t forget the danger didn’t end there. There were 150 people floating on a gigantic piece of submerging metal in sub-zero waters. But emergency rescue services were there, within minutes to rescue all the passengers. Imagine if something like this happened in India. We almost certainly don’t have the capability to mount a large-scale water-borne rescue operation. If such a thing did happen, it’ll probably left to the local people to get some boats to rescue the people or the army to come down and do something. By that time…………
The Outsider Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 There were 650 million flights in 15 years ? That is 40 million flights every year ? Thats sounds wrong to me. If it's a worldwide data, ~ 100,000 flights per day does not sound completely improbable, presuming the data takes into account all the small private planes which fly as well.
Ram Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Its much more common than that. I had a bird strike my flight from Dallas to Champaign this year itself (2009). How did you know that?
Lord Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 did the pilot knowingly take the plane in the water?if so,then kudos to him:two_thumbs_up:
Dravid Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 yea, the pilot took a sharp turn and aimed for the water..obi. as anyone would do if they want to stay alive: water landing> crashing into a building... i have come to know, middle easterners dont get this though.. :hahaha: here were 150 people floating on a gigantic piece of submerging metal in sub-zero waters. But emergency rescue services were there' date=' within minutes to rescue all the passengers. Imagine if something like this happened in India.[/quote'] M&M, the rescue services were fast because when the plane crashed, couple of boats were right near the plane sailing..so they just came over :p But yea, it was still good job done.. esp. by the airhostesses on board..
punjabi_khota Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 If it's a worldwide data' date=' ~ 100,000 flights per day does not sound completely improbable, presuming the data takes into account all the small private planes which fly as well.[/quote'] She says it is US only.
The Outsider Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 She says it is US only. Found this from google: "On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies in the United States. Only one-third are commercial carriers, like American, United or Southwest. On an average day, air traffic controllers handle 28,537 commercial flights (major and regional airlines), 27,178 general aviation flights (private planes), 24,548 air taxi flights (planes for hire), 5,260 military flights and 2,148 air cargo flights (Federal Express, UPS, etc.). At any given moment, roughly 5,000 planes are in the skies above the United States. In one year, controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and landings." http://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/Atmosphere/air_traffic.html
The Outsider Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Damn! The Hudson is frozen today - luckily it wasn't the day before, as it surely would not have helped in the landing.
vadodaravictor Posted January 17, 2009 Posted January 17, 2009 Not very clear. Plane lands at around 2:00. 3mLKfRVU3qM
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