It is such an amazing story. Captain Sullenberger is now involved in patient advocacy, which I find just as admirable (according to the blurb on the news a couple of nights ago).
I've said it before, I'll say it again. What he did was literally impossible (well not technically but for all intents and purposes).
I once read a Readers Digest article about what terms in the airline industry actually mean, my favourite was a pilot that said "there's no such thing as a water landing, it's called crashing into the ocean".
Now we all need to write letters to get them to use an A320 for the movie they're making instead of using a 737.
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According to simulations done after the fact, if they had turned around immediately, they were about 50/50 to be able to land safely back at the airport, but that also with pilots who know exactly what the situation was and were told to turn around immediately. But their first reaction isn't to immediately turn around, it's to restart the engines. The 30 seconds it took them to figure out that the engines weren't going to restart made the river landing that Sullenberger attempted the only option.
Lucky for everyone, the conditions to attempt a water landing were close to perfect, as putting the plane down had to be nearly perfect.
The best part is when the controller is talking about runways and the pilot just tells him he's landing in the Hudson. Controller says :say again?" and then starts talking about runways again as he's landing in the Hudson.
I love how the ATC asks first if he can return to LaGuardia then if he can make it to Teterboro, and both times the response from Sully is simply "unable, I think we are going in the Hudson". The next time my wife asks me to take out the garbage, I am going to calmly and coolly reply with "unable"
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I love how the ATC asks first if he can return to LaGuardia then if he can make it to Teterboro, and both times the response from Sully is simply "unable, I think we are going in the Hudson". The next time my wife asks me to take out the garbage, I am going to calmly and coolly reply with "unable"
Good plan, except you'll be going in the Bow instead.
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But that was FIVE years ago now? What happened to that time? I keep thinking that happened a few weeks ago.
That's the first thing I thought of - where has the time gone!?!
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
If I was on the plane, and was being picked up after the landing, I think the conversation would go something like this:
Driver: I'm so glad you're alive.
Me: Me too.
Driver: Did you piss yourself?
Me: Gosh no. We landed in the water and my pants are soaked from the waves.
Driver: Did you poop yourself?
Me. Ummmmm. No. That's just the smell of the Hudson River.
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Miracle on the Hudson: Hudson River plane crash five years later
