Everyone Survives Flock Of Birds

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In follow-up to Protected By Judgment, I received my pair of genuine blood-red coral and solid 14k gold earrings in the mail today. They are truly lovely and a worthy investment!

Also today, in follow-up to my dream The Bird Who Feared, Foxnews reports that a plane crashed this afternoon when a flock of birds struck its engines. All passengers and crew on board survived.

Miraculous Landing, All Survive Double Bird Strike
Thursday January 15, 2009

NEW YORK — A US Airways jet crashed Thursday in the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey after a flock of birds apparently struck its engines — but all 155 people on board are thought to have survived, and the pilot is being hailed as a hero.

Passengers were sent fleeing into the icy, 35-degree waters when the Airbus 320 went down near 48th Street in Manhattan shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport.

"We've had a 'Miracle on 34th Street' and now we have a miracle on the Hudson," said New York Gov. David Paterson.

"There were eyewitness reports the plane may have flown into a flock of birds," FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said. "Right now we don't have any indication this was anything other than an accident."

National Air Traffic Controllers Union spokesman Doug Church said the pilot reported a "double bird strike" less than a minute after takeoff. The pilot then said he spotted an airport below, in New Jersey. He first intended to make an emergency landing there but instead took the plane down in the river.

Protected by judgment, all survived - while the double bird strike proved fatal to the plane, for all passengers and crew on board the plane, it wasn't.