About 800 geese near NYC airports trapped, euthanized to reduce bird strikes of jetlinersNEW YORK — About 800 Canada geese around New York City’s two airports have been trapped and euthanized, part of an effort to reduce the type of bird strike that led to a jetliner landing in the Hudson River last winter Excerpts of cockpit, radio communications from US Airways flight 1549Transcript released Tuesday of cockpit and radio communications from US Airways Flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River on Jan. 15 after striking a flock of geese. The transcript was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. (In the transcript Flight 1549 is sometimes mistakenly referred to as 1539 and 1529.) Pilots were admiring Hudson River moments before they ditched their plane into the waterWASHINGTON — A passenger seated in the rear of US Airways Flight 1549 after the plane ditched into the Hudson River said Tuesday the water was rising so rapidly around him that he feared the plane was going to sink with passengers trapped inside. Safety board probes issues arising from plane’s forced landing into Hudson River in JanuaryWASHINGTON — The ability of aircraft engines to withstand collisions with large birds is a chief concern of federal safety investigators opening hearingsTuesday on the forced landing of a USAirways jet in the Hudson River. |
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