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If it was done any better, the pilot would have put the plane down at one of the docks.
Smart and fast reaction by the ferries to be there so quick. They deserve some credit too.
Holy Crap! Wow! Just wow! This is something we’ll probably never see again in our lifetimes.
Great job to the pilots, crew and heroes in New York! If it wasn’t for Capt. Sully we would all be viewing a much different story, one of horrible tragedy instead of amazing heroism.
Captain Sullenberger, you are The Man! As much as you’ll try to play it down as just doing your job, you are a true American hero. Your incredible feat has made the Nation smile.
Great job by the all the captains and crews. The airliner captain and crew what a job and what fast thinking by the boat captains and crews. An excellent job all round.
just cant believe everything got done so quick. within a couple of minutes there were ferries all around helping people gettin off the water.
Just to show you, no matter who you are or where you from, there will always be a helping hand around you in case of a tragedy.
This one from the BBC
is quite good.
And yes bobbo, every airline pilot in the world can do this in their sleep with one frontal lobe tied behind their back.
Who should play Capt. Sully in the movie?
By the way, those weren’t ordinary geese that brought down this plane. They were specially trained Canadian suicide geese. If we can establish a link between these geese and the Canadian government, we might have to invade Canada (you guys still have those oil sands, right?). Canada, your goose may just be cooked.
Hmm — two days, video from two vantage points. Will there be more discovered in the next few days? Probably, maybe even video of the fateful strike.
I sure hope they are able to find the engines soon.
#6 Gary, you’ve never experienced surprise until you’ve had a Canadian goose.
It fills me with hope to know that even in the most bleakest of situations, humanity can and does triumph.
I think it was a MIRACLE that this footage got captured and its INCONCEIVABLE that it could be posted to a blog. Whoever took it is a SUPERHERO.
Let us all pray. Amen.
#10 – Bobbo
Heh heh. I think that even YOU recognize that you’ve ridiculated your damn self with your uncompromising attempted diminution of the pilot’s feat.
Best you pull a ‘tempt, and just lay low for a while til people forget, just like people have forgotten ‘tempt’s absurd claim that Minnesota precincts reported more votes cast than voters registered, as part of some global conspiracy to elect Al Franken.
#11–Mustard==what percentage of First Pilots would have crashed that aircraft?
For anyone who “thinks” this guy is a Hero==you should obvious stop flying.
I think it is just a subtle variation on people’s lack of respect for competency.
#8 JimR wrote “Gary, you’ve never experienced surprise until you’ve had a Canadian goose.”
On our side of the border, I think it’s called a “strip search.” Even your terminology is friendlier 😉
#12 – Bobo
>>For anyone who “thinks” this guy is a
>>Hero==you should obvious stop flying.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Bobo, your hubris is stultifying.
Is this sour grapes, because no one considers you a hero for your mind-boggling feats with Microsoft Flight Simulator?
Uh, Bobbo, not every pilot is equal to every other pilot. Do you think you could have handled Neil Armstrong’s superb landing, “30 seconds,” as well as he? How about Chuck Yeager’s feats? Flying is not just science, it is also an art. And some are just better at it than others. They have “the Right Stuff.”
That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it.
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#15–KD==I agree with your post completely==ABOUT EVERYTHING. No two people are equal or the same about anything. Isn’t that a mathematical principle about the infinite smallness of a point?
However, while true, your point is irrelevant. That makes you different than Mustard who most often is UNTRUE, as well as irrelevant. You and Mustard are not the same.
Your point reminds me of that old Bear Joke: two friends in the forest and a bear starts to charge them. One guy starts to change into his tennis shoes and his friend says mockingly: “You can’t outrun a bear.” and the guy responds: “I only have to outrun YOU.”
And therein lies the tale. Solly is getting a bit old, but it matters little that he could be “better than” 99% of other pilots similarly trained and experienced.
Look at the situation “CRITICALLY” and determine what the true range of choices for the captain were. I’ll make it easy for you: HE HAD NO CHOICES!!!!!!!!!
3200 feet elevation made ditching in the river the only thing that ANY PILOT would have chosen. Usually wind speed is not that big an issue but if the wind was 30-40 knots, or not 70 kph as Paddy-Zero is want to confuse, then a COMPETENT pilot would have turned right for a northerly landing on the river. So, he went south and landed 10kph hot.
All goes to the point that in this scenario, very little skill was required beyond the experience than any one with more than 2000 hours would have.
I hope you aren’t “equating” the skill of student pilots, single engine pilots, non-military pilots, microsoft simulator pilots have with actual honest to god qualified heavy jet aircraft commanders?
No wonder so many people can vote for BushtheRetard, be religious, root for sports, or think they have a gambling system that works.
Mindboggling really.
For grins: what specifically did Sully do that was “Masterful” that other pilots would not have done? Would those items be any different if the aircraft had flipped on hitting the water? What factors make an aircraft skip rather than flip when hitting the water? etc.
Mindbogging I say.
Bobbo, I don’t know what decisions I would have made, I wasn’t there. I do know that BubbaRay has had 5 engine out experiences (none over water) and has never flattened a tire. Luck, or skill?
I wonder if knowledge of river currents had something to do with his landing to the south? It will probably be 18 months before the accident report is out.
You might find this new data interesting — the A320 has been rescued from the Hudson, the black boxes recovered, and the “ditch switch” sealing the craft was never thrown.
I disagree with that. Sully teaches ditching.
Bobbo, this is also interesting, titled “5 white knuckled minutes aboard 1549”
KD–How Masterful is:
1. The co-pilot “noting” the flock of geese while the First Pilot flew into the flock?
2. Pilot landed the wrong way on the river.
3. Pilot landed 10 kph faster than standard landing speed rather than 10 kph slower?
4. Pilot (NOT THE CREW!!) failed to throw the “ditch switch”–something one should do when ditching?
Just for fun, to your comments:
1. What additional information would you want to know “if you were there?” I think we have all the info we need: No Engine Power, Flaps Down, 3200 ft elevation. Pretty much says it all.
2. Engine out experiences? Not near enough information there. Bubba? Care to share? I had an engine out experience once when I took the hottest babe I have ever seen up for a ride in a 182. When she wasn’t looking, I turned the fuel lever “off.” 30 secs later the engine died and she was all over me for comfort and protection. I lined up on a road to simulate a forced landing and about 100 AGL I reached down to flip the switch on. Course, I was a low time just licensed pilot, so my expertise did not include the knowledge of the one minute it would take for the line to feed fuel to the fuel pump. We came within 20 feet of actually landing before the engine came back to life.
All in all—a good time.
All other things being equal, does sound like a South landing on the river is advised in order to land with the current. River was slack tide at the time having no relevance.
Your linked article was an interesting read. Thanks.
I’ve said it 10 times: I respect all pilots. High time or low. I respect all scuba divers. Its good to be exposed to environments that we do not control. It gives us humility and teaches us to be responsible even when in fact we are not. Because we are “sufficiently for the subject being discussed” all the same–I mark no pilot as heroic or masterful apart from any other.
You’d have to be more specific about the heroics/competency of Armstrong and Yeager. I’ll say this: any test pilot that goes up for a test ride with broken/cracked ribs is AN ASSHOLE!!! Is that what you meant?
#19–KD==another good link. Thanks. More “crap, crap, crap” though. “They didn’t have time to throw the “ditch switch.” Of course they did — just not as they went thru a standard emergency check list. Understandable===except for a Masterful SuperHeroic Pilot that teaches others about emergencies?
I’ve been told that birds will fold their wings and dive if they perceive the approach of an aircraft. I’ve never seen them do it though.
Looks to me like special “bird radar” is all that is needed===or proper coordination/comunication of the bird radar they already have and don’t make use of?
bobbo
He landed closest to a large ferry operation. Landing in the other direction would have meant many more minutes before rescue.
Any pilot who would shut off the fuel deliberately (rather than just pulling the mixture) in a 182 is, well, not bright. In fact, deliberately causing an engine failure in a populated area is a rather dumb thing to do. There are things that can screw up a restart. Wonder how long your ticket (or your lives, or other lives) would have lasted without a restart?
#17 – Boobo
>>–KD==I agree with your post
>>completely==ABOUT EVERYTHING.
Here’s a washcloth, Boobo. Clean your nose.
>>That makes you different than Mustard, who
>>most often UNTRUE, as well as irrelevant.
And you, Boobo, are different from the two of us. You’re just totally full of shit, 24/7.
I’ll grant you one thing, though. You surely do love to see your words in print, self-published though they may be. You truly do.
bobbo
The normal engine-out checklist for the A320 starts at altitude, not 3,200 ft. And certainly not for dual engine out. Ever tried to avoid a head-on collision at 140+ mph (70+70) with some drunk on a freeway coming over the hill? Tell me your reflexes are that good. Mine were, but just barely. And the seat was not wet.
Given the seconds they had, they did a darned good job. I’m done arguing these small points. The man is a superb pilot who is able to keep his wits in an extremely tense situation. Until I have the NTSB report, adios. Maybe BubbaRay will show up.
#22–KD==if our Hero didn’t think to throw the ditch switch, I doubt he was thinking about the closeness of rescue boats.
I already admitted I was stupid. I was however out over farm fields. If the restart had not occurred, I was lined up on a country road. Embarrassing, yes. Probably nothing else.
One “heroic” deed Sully did perform was that two trips down the aisle to check for passengers. Those stories about Greek Ship Captains getting into the life boats and leaving passengers on the tourist boats always crack me up.
Maybe indeed I respect pilots too much as again I think “any” pilot would do the same?
#24–KD–argue? I took it as a fun discussion and exchange of knowledge and attitudes. Always happy to share.
#23–Musturd==specifically identify any turd on my part.
Pearls before swine.
#26 – Boobo
>>Musturd==specifically identify any
>>turd on my part.
You present me with an embarrassment of riches, Boobo. Pick a message (of yours). Any message at all.
Have fun yapping with yourself, and fantasizing about what a superlative pilot, slingshot shooter, world traveler, etc., you are. And about how big your dick is. I find shameless self-promotion and touting The Wonder of Boobo boring. And pathetic.
#27–Mustard==you are nothing if not an empty shell. All conclusions no analysis. The 23rd time I have asked you for specifics and all you can come up with is a content free conclusion.
The reason you can’t come up with any actual specific complaint is that while adopting your tone, I have been throughout very complimentary of Captain Sully.
Must hurt to be you.
# 5 QB said, “This one from the BBC
is quite good.”
Thanks, I was looking for this one and couldn’t remember the source.
The BBC also has this simulator film of bobbo’s routine landing.