Hudson plane crash audio
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Yes the pilot did great, ya ya ya but he lucked out being by the water. I never flown an airplane but it would seem to me it be much easier to land a slow moving plane on water without exploding than to land on a runway-freeway, etc.
That may explain why the pilot wasn't so ready to "brag" about what he did a few days later...he was just doing his job like he was train and just luck out being by the water...now if it wasn't for all that water maybe all those birds would not have been around to fly in to both engines.
That may explain why the pilot wasn't so ready to "brag" about what he did a few days later...he was just doing his job like he was train and just luck out being by the water...now if it wasn't for all that water maybe all those birds would not have been around to fly in to both engines.
He wasn't an idiot...he was a train pilot who flown for many years...those poor pilots on 9/11 and in other deadly crashes likely could have done the same thing he did, that is all I am saying.
Landing an aircraft on water is one of the most difficult things a pilot might be called on to do, even more difficult than a carrier landing at night in a thunderstorm.S.C. Joe said:
Apparently, virtually all water landings end up cartwheeling when one wing dips and strikes the water which causes the aircraft to break up.
I'm hard-pressed to use the word "miracle" here because that implies that the pilot had some sort of supernatural assistance. I'm much more inclined to believe that the landing was down to the pilot's skill, training and cool head. All that said, he's still one seriously lucky dude... as are the passengers.
Its part of the professionalism, listen to the traffic between theLKD said:
Thomsonfly* 757 and Manchester Control two years ago this April. You would think they were discussing the cricket scores rather than that they lost the starboard engine to bird strike just after V2 and were climbing out on one engine with a full fuel load to fly from Manchester to the Canary Islands.
* now Thomson Airways.
The BBC link wouldn't work for me.
Here's a CNN link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/1549.voice.recorder.tape/
Here's a CNN link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/1549.voice.recorder.tape/
I knew someone who was killed in the crash of United Airlines Flight 232. You are right it was a miracle they got as far as they did.MichaelZzzz said:
Just the fact that with no flight controls that the pilots were able to even get the aircraft to an airport by playing with the trust of the port and starboard engines was itself a major miracle.MichaelZzzz said:
Aardvark154 said:
yeah ... but I don't think any amount of training could prepare a pilot for something like that.... I mean both planes shutting down, in the middle of Manhattan and having to land in the water which no pilot has done successfully in the past
