Irishman who survived 9/11 escapes jet crash

[Hack]

AN Irishman had an amazing escape yesterday when the jet he was travelling in crashed after trying to take off in northern New Jersey in the US.

Galway man Rory Murphy (28), who works for an equity investment company in New York, suffered a knee injury after the twin engine corporate jet overshot the runway, crossed a busy highway and ploughed into a warehouse, striking two cars along the way.

Mr Murphy was one of 11 passengers and three crew on board the plane which had been attempting to take off from Teterboro airport, about 12 miles from midtown Manhattan.

The jet was bound for Chicago's Midway airport when the accident happened at 7am local time.

A New Jersey State Police spokesman said all people had been accounted for in the crash. At least 14 people - two of them in cars - were injured, one critically.

Irish Indo

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/02/02/plane.crash.ap/story.1.plane.jpg
CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/02/02/plane.crash.ap/index.html)

http://www.foxnews.com/images/152605/10_25_020205_plane22.jpg
Liberal Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146112,00.html)

[The Bakerman]

Fuckni' Jonah that bloke... I wouldn't share a bleedin' drink with him!

[Sine Qua Non]

Where does it say he survived Sept 11?

[Vico]

Unbreakable!

[AeroPhile]

this love is?

[Vico]

Brucie Willis.

[Hack]

his brother David, the financial director of the Clarion Hotel group in Dublin...... said the emails reminded him of a similar shock message Rory sent him after the horrific September 11 attacks on New York's twin towers on September 11 2001.

At the time Rory was working nearby in Goldman Sachs and had sent a message saying he was in a dark basement with no air-conditioning and people going hysterical around him. His family lost contact with him for six harrowing hours before they got word that he was safe and well.

So he wasn't quite in the WTC then....

[Sparks]

Odds of being in a plane crash like that are about 1 in 20,000 IIRC, so why exactly is he supposed to be lucky? :D

[Vico]

Odds of being in a plane crash like that are about 1 in 20,000 IIRC, so why exactly is he supposed to be lucky? :D

Good point. Wouldn't relish sitting beside him on a long journey.

[ArseBurger]

So using this logic, I survived 9/11 also...............

Actually, that'd make a good t-shirt!

:-D

[Sine Qua Non]

So did I. I was working for Goldman Sachs at the time. Admittedly in the London office...

[ArseBurger]

So did I. I was working for Goldman Sachs at the time. Admittedly in the London office...
Close call!

;-)

[Griffin]

Final Destination 3

[Lanod]

Odds of being in a plane crash like that are about 1 in 20,000 IIRC, so why exactly is he supposed to be lucky? :D
I thought there was no such thing as luck?