[Caramelgal]

fish hawk: Duuuhhh. Hit the river or buildings. I never flew a plane in my life but have enough sense to pick the river.

Donna: ….but wouldn’t there be the force from the bouyancy of the water on a big airplane to consider? The plane could break up and sink like a stone in freezing water….I heard someone say that swimming in freezing water will make you lose body heat faster than just staying still in the water waiting for rescue.

Hum…If I had a choice between being a passenger on a jetliner loaded with volatile jet fuel, making a “hard landing” on concrete in the middle of crowed NYC neighborhood, crashing into buildings, taking out lots of other people on the ground and being engulfed in a huge fire ball or making a somewhat softer landing in the less unobstructed but freezing waters of the Hudson River, I’ll take my chances with the river and with hypothermia.

[donna]

Obviously. I was just trying to make conservation about the possibilities.