US Airways plane crashes in Hudson River, NYC

[ne1410s]

Ya know what I find surprising? ghost's post was the third to report the plane in the Hudson. Lily reported it first and then hartin reported it. Yet, ghost's is the post that gained traction. I find this interesting. Well, besides the fact that it was 27 below zero this morning here. Second coldest day in recorded history for this area by one degree.

I surprise easily.








(I meant traction but couldn't think of it.)

[Bob Juch]

I was relieved to read in a news story that the plane had a switch in the cockpit that kept the read doors from being opened and sealed off other openings that could leak. Yesterday afternoon, I had visions of some poor flight attendant trying to keep people away from the rear doors as some big idiot passenger in a panic pushed him or her out of the way.

On top of dealing with everything else in the chaos, kudos to the cockpit crew for remembering to trigger that switch while the plane was going down.

I did not know that! Good thinking!

Apparently a lot of the panic was people trying to open the rear doors. Some people clawed their way to the back wanting to get out that way.

[Chicken Little]

Ya know what I find surprising? ghost's post was the third to report the plane in the Hudson. Lily reported it first and then hartin reported it. Yet, ghost's is the post that gained friction. I find this interesting. Well, besides the fact that it was 27 below zero this morning here. Second coldest day in recorded history for this area by one degree.

I surprise easily.

The new Ice Age is Coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I surprise easily too!

[ghostjmf]

snarge is "residue of a bird-plane collision". There is a snarge team studying the crash.

I couldn't make this stuff up.

[marriedmefliesfree]

Ya know what I find surprising? ghost's post was the third to report the plane in the Hudson. Lily reported it first and then hartin reported it. Yet, ghost's is the post that gained friction. I find this interesting. Well, besides the fact that it was 27 below zero this morning here. Second coldest day in recorded history for this area by one degree.

I surprise easily.

I think I just replied to the first one I saw in the list...which would have been the most recently posted. I guess others did the same?

And friction is a good thing on a day like today. BRRRRRfreakingBRRRRRR.

[ghostjmf]

ne1410s says:

Ya know what I find surprising? ghost's post was the third to report the plane in the Hudson. Lily reported it first and then hartin reported it. Yet, ghost's is the post that gained friction. I find this interesting.

The 1st comments on my post were my own addenda to it. This served the function of moving the post to the top of the list at the time I left work yesterday. It wasn't an intentionally clever maneuver (though it is the technique companies use to move their company's profile to the top of a Google search; I think Google now tries to ward off this happening by strategy, instead of "honest searches", but I don't know how they do the warding. Nor do I know exactly now their original "bubble to top" algorithm does its work).

I just tend to reply to my own posts rather than other people's posts if I'm commenting on my own comments, because, well, "when talking to yourself you should at least keep yourself in the same room". Or something.

Happy to come back today & find other talkers, anyway.