USAir Aircraft Final Trip .... by land Through Jersey City.

[zflygrl]

I hope this works.......these photos where sent to me with the header "USAir N106US Aircraft Final Trip .... by land Through Jersey City."

 

[nycbusdriver]

Final trip? Where did they take it? Is it not going beyond that point?

 

[zflygrl]

Most likely to some hanger until the NTSB is through with it. 😛h34r:

 

[hp_fa]

That isn't something that folks around there would see every day going down the street.

 

[PHL]

http://www.usaviation.com/forums/index.php...c=44872&hl=

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

And for those of you wondering about the baggage from 1549:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/nyregion...gage&st=cse
When US Airways Flight 1549 went into the Hudson River last month, it gave William Wiley, an engineer at Software Associates, a new meaning for the term “computer crash.â€￾ Mr. Wiley was on his way home to Johnson, Tenn., from the company’s headquarters on Long Island. He had years of work on his laptop, carefully backed up on another laptop — but both were on the plane with him. ....


(No disrespect to Mr Wiley, but doesn't taking your back up computer along with the primary one defeat the purpose of backing up the data?)

 

[computer guy]

And for those of you wondering about the baggage from 1549:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/nyregion...gage&st=cse
When US Airways Flight 1549 went into the Hudson River last month, it gave William Wiley, an engineer at Software Associates, a new meaning for the term “computer crash.â€￾ Mr. Wiley was on his way home to Johnson, Tenn., from the company’s headquarters on Long Island. He had years of work on his laptop, carefully backed up on another laptop — but both were on the plane with him. ....


(No disrespect to Mr Wiley, but doesn't taking your back up computer along with the primary one defeat the purpose of backing up the data?)

It all depends on the type of disaster you are trying to protect against. Accidental deletion of files, crashed hard drive, or total system failure where you need to be able to retrieve the information or get back to work immediately, then you probably want the backup/spare laptop nearby.

Now if you have critical data that you need for business continuity/disaster recovery planning, well I wouldn't want to have the live data and the backup anywhere near each other in any type of disaster I could imagine.

In this case he could have had an failure of imagination of thinking what the worst thing that could happen to the live and backup system. I'm a firm believer that you need to account for anything even if the possibility of it happening is so remote it's not funny, even if the decision is that you do nothing about it. Why would you do nothing about the potential for a disaster? Well, that reminds me of a story from a colleague who was helping create a DR plan. It was a very large company who was looking for a site to put a backup datacenter. He pointed out that the proposed location was less then a mile from a US nuclear missile site and was liable to be destroyed in the event that we are in a nuclear war. I’m told his manager looked at him, and said that in the event there is a nuclear war, they all have bigger things to worry about then their data and the continued operation of the company.

 

[nycbusdriver]

(No disrespect to Mr Wiley, but doesn't taking your back up computer along with the primary one defeat the purpose of backing up the data?)

Exactly. Why wouldn't he simply contract for a service that will do this on a mainframe server, possibly on several, at different locations? Cheap insurance. If I had my "life's work" on a hard disk, you can be sure it would be backed up on several secure servers at various locations.

 

[robbedagain]

that Aircraft was taken to a Salvage yard in Kearny NJ

 

[PHL]

External USB and/or Firewire drives are so cheap these days. A complete computer idiot can clone their hard drive and leave that in a safe place.

I'm on the road weekly. My laptop and a recently cloned drive (which is bootable if my internal drive crashes) travel with me. Before I leave each week, the laptop data files are backed up to ANOTHER shared drive on my home workstation. That drive is mirrored and gets duplicated nightly. If my house burns down, I have DVD backups of the most pertinent data (financial and family pics/movies) in the safe deposit box kept up to date about once per month.

Sheesh. I thought everyone did it this way. 🙂

There are 2 types of computer users in this world...those who have lost data, and those who will. I fall into the latter, which is why I've become so anal about it.

 

[cactusflyer]

I fall in to the category of "those who have lost data". It sucks, plain and simple. I learned the importance of backing things up the hard way. If I had a dime for every person that said "don't you back everything up?" when I was getting a new hard drive, I wouldn't be obsessing over the cost of car rentals (other thread).


External USB= my new best friend!

 

[US AIRWAYS FAN]

How do they take the wings off? Do they rip them off the airplane? Or can a wing be removed and put back on if one was damaged?

 

[sharktooth]

There are 2 types of computer users in this world...those who have lost data, and those who will. I fall into the latter, which is why I've become so anal about it.

As a rather successful consultant, I would suggest an off site duplication, daily, perhaps more. Especially if Windows. Rarely Mac or Linux.

My primary Mac is synced every 15 minutes to an off-site repository, only because I manage a significant number of web sites. Simple and easy. No reason to be anal about it, unless you are a Windows user. Then, I can understand. Crappy (at best) operating system.