Very good news this time:
ABC News: Hero Pilot Safely Lands US Airways Jet in Hudson River
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Very good news this time:
ABC News: Hero Pilot Safely Lands US Airways Jet in Hudson River
And nobody got hurt! Amazing!:y
Truly amazing,if not a miracle.That pilot is a true hero.Real scary though,I fly U.S.Airways a lot.
Amazing, indeed. That pilot is a hero. I'm thrilled to hear all the emergency personell went to their training and it worked so well.
I read a few accounts from inside the plane, and apparently there was some pushing and hsoving people out of the way, but for the most part it was orderly. Panic was there, but controlled. (Panic being the bigget killer in survivable situations, I believe). Women and children were put on rafts or boats first, as it should be.
Great work on all accounts. Thank whatever power you believe in that it worked out the way it did for all of those people. I imagine being on that plane with my wife and even more...my daughter, and the terror I feel for her makes me nearly sick.
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Originally Posted by nun2sharp
Actually I heard on CBS this morning that one woman's legs were broken. But hey, she's alive to tell the story!
The Hudson is a truly mighty river. You can get from the Great Lakes to NYC via the Hudson. My brother lives in a 19th floor apartment at 125th street overlooking the river. I heard the plane was only 900 feet above the George Washington Bridge as it headed back south to land in the water. That means it was likely pretty much at eye level with my brother's apt.Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
This is why i wont fly out of LaGuardia airport ever... i hate it !!!
It's amazing they are all alive today. The pilot deserves all the praise he is getting .... It was also said on the local news here that word is the pilot also flies gliders in his personal time etc. and that may have helped him understand a little better about gliding in and landing the plane on its belly in the river.
No doubt the pilot was highly skilled however play the scenario over 10 times and the results would probably be tragic most of the time. If the water had been rough, if the weather had been bad etc.
no pun intended, but that was a close shave....that pilot was cooler than the icy water he landed on. i mean to fly without power and then land wothout smashing up. now thats being cool under pressure. god bless.
true, but i think even if he didnt fly gliders he still would of used his skills to land by gliding...its a big difference between glidding a light plane and 100 tons of metal like that usairways airbus a320, either way your flying but the physics is alot different, they train for things like this but really cant simulate it. only one broken leg from a stewardess. darn, i broken a arm from just a 10 foot fall.but yet they all survived a 1000 foot fall....god blessQuote:
Originally Posted by Earthdawn
I'm a major airline pilot, and I can tell ya that guy is as big of a hero as they're making him out to be. The skill required to pull off a landing under those conditions where the worst injury was a broken leg is phenomenal.
We train in simulators (which are *very* realistic) for just about every emergency imaginable, but a dual engine failure shortly after take off is not a required maneuver, as the odds of it happening are astronomically small. Occasionally, if there is sim training time remaining after the required maneuvers are complete, we'll do things like this type of emergency for "fun".
Dead sticking an airliner onto a *runway* is EXTREMELY difficult. Dead sticking an airliner into a river is exponentially more so.
The guy deserves every bit of praise he's getting. He was the right man at the right time.
Amen to that praise for the pilot and his skills!!! I think the airline oughta give him a big, fat raise, a nice vacation and a big bonus. (I would say "offer him a nice early retirement package" but who wants to LOSE a great pilot like that?) He is The Man!!! :bow:bow:bow
Praise God for His mighty Hand guiding that plane and everyone on board to safety!
And praise to the rescuers, too...as a competitive whitewater kayaker, I'm trained in swiftwater rescue (both officially from a class and unofficially from learning from more experienced paddlers and doing it many, many, many times) and I can tell you those were some VERY tough conditions for getting people off that plane. :medvl:
Panicked people who are about to die, crowded into a plane filling up with 40-degree "instant brain freeze" water...then they see exits opening and rush out, only to see more ice-cold water. :eek:
I almost wished I could have been on the plane to have helped with the rescue. ALMOST... :hmmm:
I will be flying to Newark a week from today to compete in a kayak polo (please google it, I don't have time now to explain it) competition--Austin to Newark and back on Monday. (San Antonio is closer, but no non-stops, higher cost of flights, and a less nice airport.)
So this makes me nervous, as I have never been to New York, but it's also very reassuring.
And I'll be it's WONDERFUL for the people in New York to finally see something GOOD happen with an airplane! :y
My mate used to be a RAF pilot. He used to train in small two-manned planes. He would train for engine failure and TBH just that alone gives me the heebie jeebies! :eek: I asked him if he was scared- he said not really. The training involves turning the engine off mid-air and restarting it.
I later asked him if he would ever fly in a microlite. He said he wouldnt ever be caught dead in something airborne that didnt have an engine. :thinking:
So the thought of being this pilot, responsible for so many lives and such a huge piece of machinery in an area of the world which is so densely populated... serious KUDOS to that guy!
Quick thinking and nerves of solid steel. That guy is a modern day hero. :bow
Absolutely! I should probably contact him (I own a publishing company) and try to get him to let me ghostwrite his book...but it's Friday afternoon and I'm tired of marketing, I want a drink...(wanders off to the house bar...)Quote:
Originally Posted by sidneykidney
EDITED TO ADD: Before I get overrun with pitches, let me state for the record that my publishing company is a VERY TINY start-up corporation that I started a month ago to publish MY OWN ebooks. In other words, I am NOT accepting submissions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
The pilot was truly outstanding, cool and calm and showed the highest degree of professionalism and skill. Most likely, very few pilots would have been able to accomplish what he did.
However, was he really a hero? He didn't really have much of a choice. Say the aircraft had broken open and people were in the water. What word could we find in the dictionary to describe someone risking his life to attempt a rescue when he could have stayed safe on the riverbank?