How is this not Screaming Page 1 News?!? -- Helicopter Makes Forced Landing on Hudson

[DJTorrente]

NYC tour helicopter loses power -- pilot deploys inflatable skid floats* and makes a successful forced landing on the Hudson. Everyone alive! $500k chopper headed for repairs, not scrap.

*Emergency Inflatable Skid Floats -- Booyah to the company that made them; even better to the tour operator for installing them!

No blood, no [media] love.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/...udson-river-new-york-20130630,0,3521403.story

Well done, Capt. Campbell.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hero-hudson-helicopter-pilot-dreamed-flying-article-1.1386679

 

[Jim Logajan]

Re: How is this not Screaming Page 1 News?!? -- Helicopter Makes Forced Landing on Hu

Way to meaningfully add to the conversation. :nono:

Actually his post does attempt to answer the question in the subject line. So on that basis it seems topical and meaningful. Whether it is a valid answer - I don't know. If Sculley was tax dodger, Democrat, atheist, or an illegal alien then perhaps one of those factors was why he was treated as a hero by the media.

Or it could be that a helicopter losing power in those circumstances is expected to yield a happy outcome more often than not, while a passenger jet - not so much.