Posted on 05/08/2010 7:38:43 AM PDT by pillut48
Just flipped on the tv, came to FR, did a search and found this from May 4th: Times Square car bomb suspect reportedly sketched map depicting Staten Island Ferry
No more yet, they are interviewing passengers who say that "the ferry SPED UP and hit the dock..."
TIN FOIL HAT ON.
We now have escapees from the terror watch list as ferry captain? I believe this is the same ferry that crashed previously.
Will Mayor Blooming-idiot be checking the blood to be sure he didn’t overdose on salt?
Forgot he was an artist...
Now there's a Taliban role that no one thought of...instead of photos...this guy is sitting in a saloon doing sketches. Now look on the back and see if it has GPS coords.
Control failure? Many of these vessels now have something more than a cable contol system. Either air or electronic are common and they do have failures.
“Instead of docking, the ferry angled away from its berth and slammed full-speed into a concrete maintenance pier, a concrete platform supported by pilings. The pier ripped into the ferry’s starboard side and tore into the boat’s main deck where many passengers were crowding forward to disembark. As the concrete slab entered the boat, passengers screamed and ran for cover. Some jumped into the 62 °F (17 °C) water.[citation needed] The accident left a number of victims trapped in a massive pile of metal, glass, and splintered wood. The accident was the worst in the ferry service’s 98-year history. The ferry’s hull, however, sustained no damage, and the vessel was never in danger of sinking.[citation need”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Staten_Island_Ferry_crash
Yeah, it could always be a coninkydink.
I’m sure that’s how Beltway Bob Gibbs and HolyO will spin it. Me, I’m skeptical! America IS NOT SAFE ANYMORE and I blame it all on Obama!!! >:-(
Tea Partiers.
Again.
Or a common Big City Union Drunk.
Maybe a drunken union skipper who has lifetime job security?
@least 12 hurt, injuries minor.
It seems that “suicide by Ferry” would be more of a San Francisco thing.
That drugged out skipper actually sued to get his job back.
While the person in charge of all transportation matters in NYC was given a pass. None other than Chuck Schumer’s wife. ta daaaaaa
Amish are supposed to be good ferry captains.....
Oh no! Not the Amish again!
If it didn’t explode, it can’t possibly be the amish...
Probably inspired by one of those evil Wall Street Executives.
Witnesses say the boat actually sped up before reaching the dock. A witness at the terminal said everyone went running out of the terminal, thinking the boat was going to crash right through it.
A witness on the ferry said people flew across the floor as the boat hit the dock.
wtol.com
Good point....
chuck has a wife?! yuck, poor lady. it is a lady right?
bump
One woman said it was like ‘9-11’.
Already CNN and MSNBC in ‘damage control’ mode .....
Although news outlets are reporting critical injuries, Mayor Bloomberg said there are no critical injuries...
CNN was reporting 95% were not injured
A desk reporter said that clearly is not true and that at least 25% were injured.
Just saw this text on the bottom of the CNN screen: “Passenger reports seeing fire come from back of ferry.” That’s not an exact quote, but the gist of it. FWIW
“Sources tell NY1 that a Staten Island Ferry boat involved with a fatal 2003 crash lost power and crashed into a dock at the St. George Ferry Terminal this morning, and fire sources say at least 60 people were injured.
Passengers on the boat told NY1 that the Andrew J. Barberi ferry boat picked up in speed as it approached the Staten Island dock, and then crashed at 9:25 a.m.
“Everything was smooth sailing.... Then as we approached the dock, it started speeding up,” said passenger Alex Gonzalez.
Passengers told NY1 there were no announcements made on the boat, and that some people were screaming, “Get away from the windows.”
“Then it was like everybody braced themselves,” said Gonzalez. “[The crash] was so hard it threw you back.”
A woman waiting at the ferry terminal told NY1 that a “black plume of smoke” emerged from the back of the ferry boat.
At least 10 people have been seriously hurt, and the ferry boat was damaged above the water line, according to fire sources.
Emergency personnel are currently at the terminal and several people were laid out by the dock in stretchers. Other victims are seated in wheelchairs and were given oxygen.
“It puts you in the mind of 9/11, when you see them carried off the boat on stretchers,” said a woman who was waiting at the ferry terminal.
http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/118304/ferry-boat-crashes-into-s-i—dock
I’m feeling more and more natural waring my tin foil hat, now-a-days.
It has changed from Ferry Crash to ‘hard landing’...BWAHAHAHAA
Could just be the modern world winding down... a piece here, a piece there and soon we're in the last chapters of Atlas Shrugged.
MSNBC just reported 37 injuries mostly head and neck and a Triage has been set up.
Shouldn’t that be hard docking?
A bridge was lowered to keep the Ferry from running into the terminal.
Iris Weinschall (sp). She was moved out of transportataion to another cushy job as the head of one of NY’s colleges, IIRC.
Iris Weinschall (sp). She was moved out of transportataion to another cushy job as the head of one of NY’s colleges, IIRC.
She’s the vice chancellor of CUNY
FU Napalitano. NOW she’s talking about the flood in Tennessee.
BS
Napalitano is talking like she’s hungover or drugged...
Both pneumatic (air pressure) control and electronic have fail-safes that default to idle speed on the engines and neutral for the transmissions.
If you have the standard Westinghouse air controls, the moment the air pressure drops, whether by leak/breakage or via the bridge controls, everything drops to neutral. It has been a reliable safety feature for over 50 years.
Been there...done that.
FOX anchor says 60-65 injured, so far.
Also in ‘damage control’ mode for the one...
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Well gee that would be 2 under Obama, so nah, they won’t report that but they are ALL comparing to the 2003 incident...
"A woman waiting at the ferry terminal told NY1 that a “black plume of smoke” emerged from the back of the ferry boat."
A North Korean 2 man submarine is suspected as having fired the torpedo after the crew had a lunch break at Coney Island.
Bush is to blame for NK`s taking revenge for lack of of kimchee for the Coney Island hot dogs.
I don’t think the jihadis are using some 1930s movie serial energy beam to disable ferry boat controls. Either it’s poor maintenence or pilot error or both. There are layoffs coming in the Apple and this may be someone’s idea of resistance.
the pilot probably fell asleep. Just like the guy from last year.
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