if na naija; dt sea coast crash na office for the naijadelta militants.

Well done to the pilot, his crew and all the people that maintain the aircraft and ensured everything was working! I've worked with one of the best airlines in Europe and the number of times you find that life jackets are incomplete etc or something wasn't working properly etc after a flight.

I agree with some posts that we have excellent pilots in Nigeria but our emergency services would have let the pilot down big time or perhaps the maintenance guys for the aircraft would have left one or 2 things out intentionally or not. I can never forget the PHC airport crash with parents watching their children burn alive, surely more lives should have been saved from that crash if we had reliable emergency services but someone somewhere thinks it's not important.

God's been good to these people, even better to us Nigerians with the risks we take in our airspace and I can only pray he continues to be good to us all.

God bless America. Let's pray for Naija,we can get there too.

if na for port hacourt, they would be rescued by MEND and taken hostage right after.


its going to take a lot of work but Lagos/NIGERIA would get there.

"God be praised" That's what the Americans and every lives in that plane should be saying,instead,they are praising the pilot.God have mercy!It is well,

Macvyno:

This is another reason for the survivors to thank God immensely, for keeping the pilot in the right frame of mind. If it had crashed on land, the story would have been another tragedy in the aviation history. Glory be to God Almighty.

Kudos also to the pilot, atleast for not taking some shots of monkey tail, before setting off for flight unlike my Naija Pilots them from Osunbi to Lagos.

We just have to acknowledge the level of organisation and development in American. For a rescue team to save 155 in less than 12 hours, my brother its a kudos because that cant happen in Naija. Infact Rescue team hot line go freeze because it will not be reacheable in the moment please try again letter. Maybe when BBC or CNN flash immediately on breaking News and some good fellow Nigerians rush down to thier office, to inform them, they will tell you "their oga no dey" if he come e go give orders make them go save them. When Oga returns from when he went for some shot of soilder root, he will tell you the fuel wen dey motor no go fit reach there. Even when good citizen Nigerian donates fuel immediately, they will be having only 5 life jackets, which they will be intend to use to save 155 persons.

Infact for Niaja na God go help us

I want to say a big PRAISE THE LORD for sparing the lives of 155 people. May his name always be glorified. How could you be very sure that 9jia could be as bad as you had published here? too quick to jumping into conclusion. What happened was just an act of God and not the pilot of which God in his infinite mercy could grant any pilot in 9jia such grace.

Talking about the inefficiency of the rescue team in 9jia, you can't be too sure when it comes to issues like this. This is not a case of armed rubbers rubbing some where and the police was notified, this is a total case of humanity. remember, necessity is the mother of invention. though i'm not comparing the efficiency of US rescue team to the one of 9jia.

ohaechesi:

I want to say a big PRAISE THE LORD for sparing the lives of 155 people. May his name always be glorified. How could you be very sure that 9jia could be as bad as you had published here? too quick to jumping into conclusion. What happened was just an act of God and not the pilot of which God in his infinite mercy could grant any pilot in 9jia such grace.

Talking about the inefficiency of the rescue team in 9jia, you can't be too sure when it comes to issues like this. This is not a case of armed rubbers rubbing some where and the police was notified, this is a total case of humanity. remember, necessity is the mother of invention. though i'm not comparing the efficiency of US rescue team to the one of 9jia.

the crashes in naija that didnt end favorably were acts of God too. to show he can do as he pleases.

I got a photo on the crash survivors.

Thank God the water was cold enough to keep the plane floating longer.

@minute, please I want to understand. I never knew temperature had an effect on surface tension in liquids.
I miss dem old physics days.

dont u geddit, ? God doesnt sleep
On a lighter side, to think the plank crashed because it hit a flock of birds!!!!
funny

@Grizzly, a few birds obviously got through the fans and into the combustion chamber of the engine, causing it to malfunction. I think jet engine designers should really work on this as this is not the first case of birds in jet engines.

Grizzly:

dont u geddit, ? God doesnt sleep
On a lighter side, to think the plank crashed because it hit a flock of birds!!!!
funny

lol, maibe they were trying to claim omo onile/ native right from the plane and it didnt comply. but seriously though, they got there first.

yeah thats really stupid,
u got to be careful about some small birds,
when u are the bird in charge,
stupid

pardon my refusal to jump up and down on the sighting of this thread
but it was a river not the sea!

ehen *jumping up and down with glee*
thank goodness for the lives saved
jeez! that musta been one helluva experience

The pilot and other crew members were magnificient.
I really thank God for their lives.
Please people, lets leave Nigeria out this. It will be highly
unthinkable to imagine this happening in Nigeria.

Nufin but a miracle. Could happen anywhere.

The landing was a miracle. However, the miracle was unconfirmed until rescue operations began. Hypothermia could have killed those people. Shock and delay could have killed them too. Emergency response is nearly non-existent in nigeria. It's not badmouth. It's sadly true. If it were in nigeria, even if God saved them from the crash, i'm sure half would drown before rescue boats get there. It's water so the plane would eventually sink. Try figuring out the average time that would take and also the average time you think it would take nigerian rescuers.

MrCrackles:

Amazing!
I wish i was on the flight to witness the two thoughts of survival and perishing!

i reject it for u

I'm really shocked at the level of negativism (I hope I'm correct) on this thread.  What do u guys mean here/  There are better pilots here in 9ja and I mean it.  Let me tell u something, if that thing had happened in Nigeria, say Lagos, in less than a minute, help (in the form of fishermen) would've arrived, only that u get to hear the news and see the pictures first on CNN before our local stations.

9ja for life.

amebo no.1:

i reject it for u

Thanks

delegiwa:

I'm really shocked at the level of negativism (I hope I'm correct) on this thread. What do u guys mean here/ There are better pilots here in 9ja and I mean it. Let me tell u something, if that thing had happened in Nigeria, say Lagos, in less than a minute, help (in the form of fishermen) would've arrived, only that u get to hear the news and see the pictures first on CNN before our local stations.

9ja for life.

delegiwa:

I'm really shocked at the level of negativism (I hope I'm correct) on this thread.  What do u guys mean here/  There are better pilots here in 9ja and I mean it.  Let me tell u something, if that thing had happened in Nigeria, say Lagos, in less than a minute, help (in the form of fishermen) would've arrived, only that u get to hear the news and see the pictures first on CNN before our local stations.

9ja for life.

good stuff

we would have used our yatch/hotel as rescue boat the way water taxi's were used.

Glad to hear something different from the fatalities we are used to having with air crashes.

Much is being ascribed to the plane pilot for expertly guiding the aircraft to land safely. Many eye witnesses agree that the plane "landed smoothly" in the river just like on a runway. Says quite a lot about the pilot who was once an airforce fighter pilot for 29 years. Experience does matter. I found his picture and a little about him:

Name: Chesley B 'Sully' Sullenberger III
Age: 57, from Danville, California
Former Air Force fighter pilot
29 years with US Airways
Has own consulting business, Safety Reliability Methods Inc

His photo is below.

If the accident has occured in Naija, some people here will tell you that it could NEVER have happen in America and other "advanced" countries.

They will give the impression that it's only in Naija that birds can hit a plane.

Thank God it happened in the "most advanced" country.

Since it did not happen here, they are now trying to "imaging"

stunning and intriguing

if it happened in nigeria,,,all the passengers would probably have died,

miss rabiu:

if it happened in nigeria,,,all the passengers would probably have died,

Wrong!. They could as well be saved.

_{I tire fo people oo!.} Why must they always ascribe things that could go the wrong way to only Nigeria?. _uuuups!!

Thank God for his little Mercies.

Guys,

Please don't write off our Naija with response to emergencies. Our Eagles will fly again someday.

Hero Pilot




Images of the plane