Liberty Tour Helicopter Safe River Landing

[Gerard]

A Liberty Helicopters EC-130 with 8 passengers along with pilot made an emergency landing in the Hudson River this afternoon. I wont say crash because from the looks of it no damage and no injuries. Floats were deployed and the copter landed upright. Sounds like a textbook emergency landing to me.

[Gerard]

[ I wont say crash because from the looks of it no damage and no injuries

Well maybe SOME damage (LOL) from a picture i just saw on the Daily News website. Looks like the rotors and rotor hub had damage. BUT everyone walked (boated?) away so that is the most important thing.
Of course the media cant get it right so far. A number of reports say that a "Helicopter with pontoons" crashed not realizing its emergency floation gear was activated. And another report said it was an EC-135.
Oh well.
One rumor I heard on another helo related forum that it was an engine flameout and the female pilot reacted cooly.
Nice work!!

[emshighway]

Any time you walk away it's a good landing.

Heard one of the passengers is an FDNY EMT, good to hear he is OK.

[Tom_Turner]

So, one chopper into the River for each of the East Side heliports in the last few months (or 2006?) and now one for the West Side.

Sounds like we're all evened up now. :)

Tom

[Gerard]

[quote="Tom_Turner"]So, one chopper into the River for each of the East Side heliports in the last few months (or 2006?) and now one for the West Side.
Sounds like we're all evened up now. :)

Lets keep it that way. :O)
Yes the 206L out of Wall Street and the S76 out of 34st last summer.

[Tom_Turner]

So, one chopper into the River for each of the East Side heliports in the last few months (or 2006?) and now one for the West Side.
Sounds like we're all evened up now. :)

Lets keep it that way. :)
Yes the 206L out of Wall Street and the S76 out of 34st last summer.

Yes, lets leave it as is... :)

We're even evened up in the three major manufacturers of local examples... Bell, Eurocopter and Sikorsky.

Anthony Weiner is probably gong to have something to say..... :(

[Gerard]

[quote="Tom_Turner"][quote="Gerard"][quote="Tom_Turner"]So, one
>Anthony Weiner is probably gong to have something to say..... :<

Forgot about that jerk. I wish they would interview the pilot but Liberty
is keeping her hidden (for now). She did an EXCELLENT job landing that ship safely and they could use her for making a positive out of a negative.
Some good PR.

[Matt Molnar]

I read in the Post that the chopper sunk. Any truth to that?

[njgtr82]

Heres some video footage and interviews of pax on board
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/200 ... .crash.cnn (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/07/09/intv.family.survives.helicopter.crash.cnn)

[Gerard]

I read in the Post that the chopper sunk. Any truth to that?

None. Its sitting on a pier in Jersey awaiting inspection by the NTSB.