On Jan 15, 4:01*pm, Kingfish wrote:
Holy smokes! CNN is reporting an airliner went down in the Hudson
after departing LaGuardia. I heard something about birdstrikes, but
can't imagine a double engine failure due to that(?) They sure picked
a cold day to go swimming... Hope everybody is ok...

If you go to

http://www4.passur.com/lga.html

and search to about 15:26pm, you'll see the ill-fated flight. He gets
up to around 3400 feet, and then makes an immediate 180 trying to get
back to La Guardia. Seeing that was impossible, he headed for the
Hudson, and very nearly collided with a Eurocopter flying north at
1000 feet along the river. The copter pilot dodged out of the way,
then circled back to where the plane hit the water.

I'm absolutely astonished that plane didn't flip when it hit the
water. They got real lucky today, as it's absolutely freezing up here
right now.