Travel articles "In the Event of a Water Landing": What Flight Training Says About Ditching
Jan. 15: Today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte in a ice cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia.
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Pictures of The Cliff Ski Resort: guest room, ice skating rink, zip rider, alpine slide and more. More on Ditching Planes and the A320's Water-Friendly Design
Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.
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Yahoo Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Exterior
Exterior picture of the Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino.
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