Thursday, January 15, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 makes succesful crash landing in Hudson River

The plane taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York at 3:26 P.M. EST for Charlotte North Carolina crashed; the engines had blown about 3 minutes into the flight.
But watching something as miraculous as a full size commercial jet with 155 passengers and crew members as well as an infant in the aftermath of a crash landing without imploding or breaking apart at all I think is pretty miraculous, don't you? The passengers say that the pilot was a hero they had all assumed the crash position and braced themselves, water did fill the compartment pretty quick.
And the fact that water taxis, police and fire vessels, tugboats, as well as the Staten Island Ferry all converged on the floating plane to make a speedy rescue within minutes of the people already climbing in their life-vests out onto the wings that we could watch on our TV’s, as all the survivors appeared, from the film, to only have there feet wet and in the 30’s degrees water preventing them from dealing with possible hypothermia. All were saved within moments, keeping the last two years of perfect non death commercial flights record untarnished.

According to all the networks at this time it seems that the cause of the crash was bird related and that two engines were blown from a flock of geese. Scary to think that could have turned out much worse with those fowl possibly being responsible for 155 deaths!
What’s more frightening still is that in 2009 that, that could even happen. Cannon guns at some airports are used to scare off birds, Border Collies at others, but still this is the 21st Century, and you would think by now we would have something more modern, oh I don’t know, more practical and known to work consistently, not just sometimes. And definitely have something to prevent the problem once in the air, in flight.

My husband was a student of aeronautical engineering for five years at LaGuardia where this plane took off from and in all that time I never asked any questions and besides that was nearly forty years ago; I would think that things would have changed by now.
Anyway, I do hope that they are working on a better way to take care of this problem for all our sakes.

On to the more mundane, but important to me; the tub surround is merrily moving along at an injured hubby pace, but move on it does, thank you deary!

Has anyone noticed that I have been making up my own words on occasion?
Well, I have and it feels good; after all think about it; where did our English/ American language come from initially?
Some one must have created the words to use that we do on a daily basis.
Oh of course I do know and understand about word derivations like the French and German genesis of our meanings of our words, but where did they come from?
We could go on and on and on like a funhouse row of mirrors do with explanations.
But in reality most verbal communication was created by human beings, not some unknown entity.

I hope anyone who reads this Blog knows that artistic liberties are taken with love and not lightly realizing the power of words.
I truly do adore the fact that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I guess that would have to be changed to the keyboard is mightier than the sub-machine gun? I know not funny at all.

From: Stories behind Famous Sayings
“The Saying: THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.
Who Said It: Edward Bulwer-Lytton for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy
When: March 7.1839”

On that important trivia info I will say good night to all sleep well and warm.

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