Comments on: Hudson River crash survivors upset by US Airways’ treatment

By: Ezzy

Ezzy — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:09:51 +0000

Now I know why so many people don’t get involved to help others in an accident. I Remember a woman suing a man after he pulled her out of a car that was involved in an accident. The car was on fire. She said he had caused permanent damage to her arm. I guess she would have rather stayed in the burning car.
I don’t know if it’s been said. But you need to get over your fears fast. I’ve never been in a plane crash. I’ve been in a car accident where a car ran a stop sign and we both totaled our cars. There was a lot of blood, but we both walked away. I was driving a car three hours later. Too many people refuse to drive a car after an accident. If I survived a plane crash, I’d be another as soon as possible to get to where I was going. Especially If was going home and had to be to work as soon as possible.

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By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:06:07 +0000

I agree with you bro, not the birds fault.

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By: Molson

Molson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:05:00 +0000

ITS NOT THE GEESE’s FALULT, ITS THE DUMB PLANE, WHY CANT PLANES REPEL OFF BIRDS DUMB US AIRLINES

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By: Molson

Molson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Alright, FIRST off all you americans that think that “CANADIAN GEESE” which is the best bird in the whole world. You americans have to stop with this targeting on a CANADIAN GEESE which is one of our sacred symbols. What if we put on the front page a EAGLE and put a target on it and say Pluck em. You guys would freak out because your all so passionate, well guess what, we are too and we love our GEESE and he they can fly wherever and whenever they want.

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By: bill metzger

bill metzger — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:03:27 +0000

the amount of money spent on the design and construction of modern airliners leaves me to wonder why they can’t be built toabsorb birds strikes . taking the bus from now on.

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By: Chuck Davis

Chuck Davis — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:21:56 +0000

What does an airline ticket owe you? It owes you a safe and swift means of transportation! This means you should have a competent, well trained pilot and crew. These traits were well demonstrated on this flight. This crew gave the passengers their lives and any of them who think otherwise have lowered their dignity below that of an ambulance chasing attorney. They beaks were the ones who were hurt HA HA CHUCK DAVIS – FLORIDA

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By: David

David — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:52:12 +0000

Ummm…am I missing something? The passengers are upset, because all they get is ‘lousy upgrades’…? Amazing how you were all probably texting/voicemailing all of your loved ones, before you were ready to kiss your arses goodby, seconds before the crash. Yet, you all walked away – thankfully to the amazing pilot, and flight crew who saved your lives! Geez, “Beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here!”. Sidenote, after all the depressing news of the past few years, this event truly made me cry and overjoyed at the simple fact of being alive and being part of something bigger than myself. Pinch me. To be honest people, it’s time to stop holding your hand out for everything in life, and start giving back, before it’s too late.

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By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:41:07 +0000

It’s really stingy. US Air didn’t do anything wrong. If anything they hired such a great pilot, he was able to save their lives. I would ask for a few more years to be added to that compensation package but really they didn’t have to offer anything at all.

Planes are not able to withstand most objects that fly into their engines. Some mechanic was talking about how their design has improved but because of the area where they are placed and the sensitivity of the engines that problem just won’t be solved.

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:55:16 +0000

In addition:

If you’re moving cross country with your luggage and you’re flying, I can only imagine you’re spending almost as much on the airline tickets as the cost of your belongings. I’d consider you an odd case in this scenario, and if you hadn’t bought insurance when bringing all of your worldly belongings with you, I’d ask how much you actually value them?

Nonetheless, I’d would argue in your case as follows. Just as it’s been stated a hundred times over above, it’s not your fault that the plane crashed. Even though it’s not the airlines fault either, it would be decent and human of them to handle your case differently than someone else.

The problem we encounter there is, everyone else would start whining because you were treated in response to your case.

Treating people equally does not mean the compensation comes out to the same dollar amount. It means taking into account what damage was actually done, and correcting it individually.

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:36:16 +0000

$500,000 to each passenger? Seriously, half a million dollars? That, is as crazy as anyone trying to sue the company.

Law suits have a place where negligence is evident.

Everything in this case says it was just some bad luck in the form of a flock of geese.

Did all of your common sense run out on you? Is everyone really so self-serving and selfish that they think the world owes them everything that can be strangled out of it? $5000 towards lost luggage is pretty good, considering most people I’ve known don’t carry that much in luggage with them.

The -only- valid point made that I’ve read was that the airline should help with medical expense for anyone seriously psychologically harmed from this. But even then, I argue that the people should have to prove their psychological trauma.

People cheat other people too often. Grow up and act like the responsible adults you should be.

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