A plane crash just happened in New york 40 minutes ago,apparantly hit a flock off geese and pilot lost control and crash landed into a river,no fatalitys yet as rescue team locating servivers.
Bit over-dramatic, it looks like the pilot has done an impressive job to park the plane in something wet and splashy rather than someone's living room.
Very thankfull to hear everybody is ok, especially as my parents are flying tonight, take off was at 9pm (uk) needless to say i heard the words plane crash on the news just now and shat myself. They were travelling UK to portugal so nowhere near it but as they are in the air right now i only heard the words plane crash.
So, geese caused this??
You would think that they would be able to fit some kind of mesh, yeah, square mesh with say 4 or even 6 inch holes in it to keep things like birds out of the jets wouldn't you.
Apparently the 'Please call if you think you may have family members on board' hotline is getting a lot of prank calls. A lot of people are anxious to ascertain as to whether the plane did a barrel roll. Must be some sort of group or something? They sound like hackers on steroids...
we know nobody was killed then fine IMO. If there had been fatalities then you would have already thought and decided not to post it. Its cool.
Im still thinking about the cause, bloody wildlife!
If a mesh of similar specifications i mentioned earlier were to be used for protection to the engines, then i can't see how it could really cause much of a problem with regard to airflow AFAIK.
Imagaine, a mesh made of 1/2 inch (12.5mm) metal rods, with 6 inch (150mm) square holes, then the overall restriction of airflow by area would only be roughly 12% which isn't really that much in the grand scheme of things.
My maths isn't that brilliant, so this is only a rough calculation.