Sunday, January 18, 2009

landing in the Hudson for fear of killing those on the ground if he missed an airport...

but were the birds there because of "wetlands" legislation? or are golf courses to blame? or were they migrating?

my brother's lake always had Canadian geese ...they tend to be huge, and travel in a huge V while migrating....
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The Boston Herald points out the heroism wasn't just that of the pilot:

If you believe the worst about Americans, you’d expect Thursday’s crash to create a mob of greedy, selfish jerks clawing away for the first shot at an exit. Instead, passengers reported that it took just a single cry of “Women and children first!” and total strangers facing possible drowning stepped aside to let mothers and their infants pass.

And after the crash, the first responders weren’t government rescue workers, but nearby passenger ferries. One ferry worker, Cosmo Mezzina, confessed to reporters afterward that he didn’t even know what the call “man overboard” meant. But he and his co-workers headed straight to the sinking airplane.

No waiting for approval from an attorney or checking the “rope-to-rescuers” ratio in the regulations. Just Americans helping others in need...

(viaInstapundit)

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