Hudson River plane crash

[Pleater]

Canada geese?

There are so many in Poole Park they make the grass nasty and the water in the lake all green.

They are big birds - but I doubt they suffered if some went into the engines - it must have been quick, one minute flying and five seconds later thoroughly squashed.

Bird strike would explain why both engines failed.

My Dad saw many planes come in to land after sorties over Germany and on patrol around England when he was in the RAF in WWII. Some planes crashed terribly and the crews walked away with barely a scratch, sometimes there was a seemingly small accident, but it would be enough to kill a man.

He used to say 'If your number isn't up then you can walk away from any wreck.' It seems that today the crew and passengers of that plane were not on the list of those to die.

It must be a really strange experience to come through something like that, and I wonder how they will be affected by it.

It would be interesting to find them all a year from now and see what has happened to them after today, if they have gone on with their lives as before or decided that they would change something - or everything as a result of the experience of surviving what could have been a disaster.

Anne the Pleater