EXCLUSIVE: The Real Reason Flight 1549 Went Down

by cocknfire on Jan 19, 2009 2:48 AM EST in SEC Football

NEW YORK -- Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board now say they have abandoned their intial theory that a bird strike caused the downing of US Airways Flight 1549 and now believe it was instead caused by a "Julio Jones strike."

NTSB member Kitty Higgins said it appears that Jones was practicing his receiving skils with a few friends in Tuscaloosa when "things got a little out of hand."

Jones, in an earlier, far lower jump.

"It was weird," Jones said when contacted by a reporter. "I was just jumping up to catch a ball, and the next thing I know, I'm flying over Manhattan. Then the plane comes along."

Jones said going through the engine didn't hurt him as much as might be expected.

"Actually, it was almost as easy as going through the Georgia secondary," he said. "Almost."

But Higgins said investigators believe Jones caused just one of the engines to fail. She said the NTSB is still investigating reports that the other engine could have fallen victim to a "Knowshon Moreno strike" and that Leigh Tiffin was practicing kicking FGs at the time of the accident.

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Not funny.

People could have gotten seriously hurt or injured. The plane could have done worse damage than the planes on 9/11. Keep to the purely sports stories please.

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by bdalebs on Jan 19, 2009 8:55 PM EST reply actions

The point was that no one was seriously injured

bs.uf15bosox9bears23, you’re one of the more consistent readers and commenters here, so I’m sorry if you are or anyone else is offended. But I’ve always done parody as the ideas strike me, and I will continue to do so. I certainly wouldn’t have done it if the plane had crashed and done serious damage — I said as much to the SBN college manager when I asked for the post to be featured. I don’t do parody on real tragedies — that’s why, for example, I won’t do a Gaza parody, even if I get a good idea. (And, in the SEC, there are plenty of places you could take that one.) But this wasn’t a tragedy, it was a miracle, and I don’t see anything wrong with having a little fun with that.

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by cocknfire on Jan 19, 2009 10:43 PM EST up reply actions

I'm just a little mad about the direction our country's headed.

Sorry, I see the comedy, but I just don’t feel comfortable joking about something that could have been one of the biggest tragedies in US history. I hope we don’t ever have to see a plane flying a little too low and immediately think the worst ever again, but until we come to terms with the people who want to hurt us, we will have to live with that in the back of our minds.

Again, sorry, just a little touchy about these kinda things right now.

by bdalebs on Jan 20, 2009 5:13 PM EST up reply actions