I think we all remember this story.
This video puts it in a new perspective to me. Especially hearing the radio transmissions.
Balls of Steel! Good Show!
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Damn.
Interesting how behind the curve the tower was.
I don’t think they wanted to belive that splashdown was a real possibility.
Seems like every time Sully Mentioned “We’re going into the Hudson” they just kept offering new runways.
Its a plane, not a glider!
That was a truly amazing display of calm and heroism…. Obviously the lefties and evironuts wouldn’t agree.. this is how they see
What the hell… I was trying to post a funny picture… I I’ll try this…
http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb330/theferalirishman/?action=view¤t=goose-killer.jpg
AWESOME!
I said it then to my husband, and I’ll say it here, they were lucky as hell, but that was some serious skill he showed.
If the bird strike had been much any later or earlier, the Hudson might not have been an option, and the chances of having to pick pieces of plane out of a highrise go up immensely. Luck played a huge part.
But the skill involved, to not only recognize what had happened and realize that the Hudson was the only option, but to also pull it off, is insane. And the flat out refusal to let the towerpush him into trying for a runway, which would have been a complete disaster. Nerves of steel not just balls.
They done good, BUT if they’d been flying a Boeing with direct throttle control, they would have had enough power to make the runway… Just sayin…
The Airbus automatically rolled both engines back to ‘protect’ them… WRONG ANSWER!
Interesting. I know NOTHING about planes. I’d love to hear an explanation on what you mean.
Wow.
And +5 to Old NFO. Airbus has a long history of computer controlled fly by wire screwing up flight crews. It’s notorious in the Computer Security industry as overly complex, with many failure modes due to the design engineers not knowing how flight operations work, and so the computer provides “interesting” situations.
It may be that the Air France flight to Brazil that nosedived into the Atlantic was an example of this, where the computer didn’t let the pilot nose forward to get out of the stall, because it (or he) was in the “wrong mode”.
Airbus’ problem is that now this history is so long and deep that they’ll take the blame, even with actual pilot error.