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Why spend all that money investigating the plane crash?
The plane that crashed in the Hudson....
How much money do you think the government is going to spend investigating? Probably hundreds of millions of dollars. If not more.
WHY?? We are in a recession. We have a national debt of over $10,000,000,000.00. That's Ten Billion, with a "B." The pilot told us what happened. They found feathers in the engine. Pack it up and call it a day, for crying out loud. Save us a few hundred million.
Maybe spend the money to kill the geese? They're dirty, smelly birds anyway.
I screwed up. It's ten TRILLION dollars. That's 10,000,000,000,000.00
Just keep adding zeros.
I'm a pilot. I fly small planes. I know what birds can do to planes, and so does the NTSB. The engines were designed for birds four pounds or less. These geese are ten pounds. The geese multiply like rabbits. The northeast US is inundated with them.
Point is, we know that the planes cannot handle a bird strike that large. Examining the wreckage is not going to tell us anything new. It just spends lots and lots of money.
In case the last idiot that answered mis-read the question, I was not questioning the heroism that was displayed. The landing, on the water, was nothing short of amazing. The pilot and flight crew absolutely saved lives, and should be commended. The question is asking about the money spent investigating a crash where we are all well aware of the specific cause.
Reading is fundamental. I was looking for intelligent answers. And got some. Thanks.
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- tonalc2Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
To see if it was just a fluke that the birds damaged the engines, or if there is some other safety problem that can be identified and addressed in other planes.
And it's not going to be anywhere near hundreds of millions of dollars. The most expensive government crash investigation ever was of TWA flight 800 ten years ago, and that involved massive salvage, recovery and cleanup expenses. Its cost was about $10 million.
- JuanBLv 71 decade ago
No one died in this accident. But they might not be as lucky if it happened again. They always investigate accidents and correct the problems for future flights.
So we know the jet crashed because of birds. Well, all airports have bird systems to get rid of the birds. Why did it not work this time? Are you comfortable that a couple of small birds can crash a whole jet? You know birds hit all engines and they stopped working. Should it have, or should is it reasonable to expect an engine to not fail with the hit that it took? All these questions and more need to be answered.
Spending a bit more money keeps people employed during a recession.
- C.M. CLv 71 decade ago
So your a big time small plane pilot, wake up to yourself, how much money is one life or 156 lives worth? Sure this pilot did the impossible, maybe if it was another pilot they wouldn't be on top of the Hudson, but at the bottom. The other scenario is that this disaster and the actions of the flight crew, saved further lives on land if they didn't ditch on the Hudson.
- rxingLv 71 decade ago
people who were on the plane on tuesday reported that they heard a banging noise from the engines 2 days before the accident , so they are making sure,
