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Old 01-15-2009, 02:50 PM   #11
SteveToms
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
From the CNN reports he had pretty much slowed down before hitting the water, and that this was an aborted take-off.

So he didn't land on water, he rolled off the runway, across the field, and if he had a few hundred more feet it wouldn't have hit the water at all.

Very different from trying to land a jet on water from full flight.
No this is not a aborted takeoff.

It achieved t/o but it suffered multiple bird strikes damaging both engines.
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