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01-15-2009, 05:11 PM

#201

ImTumbleweed

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LOL!!

PETA is going to go after the crew for the loss of the geese.

Outstanding job by the entire crew! My hat is off to you US Airways guys and gals-- Great job (and as a DAL guy, we never take our hats off).

Talk about a miracle...

Cheers,
Tumbleweed
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01-15-2009, 05:17 PM

#202

RockBottom

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OUTSTANDING airmanship by the pilots and hustling by the F/As!!!! How cool that this thread is over 200 replies already. Hope the crews visit this thread sometime

01-15-2009, 05:22 PM

#203

Tankerhead

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Quote:

Originally Posted by reddog25

Airbus A-318 thru A-380 are fly by wire. There is no 'manual reversion'. The hydraulic flight controls would still be powered by the blue hydraulics. I do believe this is the FIRST time an airplane with underwing engines sucessfully ditched. KUDOS to Airbus flight laws that prevent the airplane from stalling, ensuring the airplane was able to land at the slowest possible speed.

Is successfully crashed the same as successfully ditched? Some years ago, a 707 got a "bit" low on a nonprecision overwater approach in Africa. She settled out of ground effect and came to rest just off the beach, albeit with no attached powerplants or landing gear. Fuselage and wings stayed intact and no injuries, as I recall. Pics are somewhere in cyberspace.

707's are overbuilt, thankfully. I still bet my life on that hunk of 1950's iron.

BTW, today's USAir crew are freakin' rock stars. You can chair-fly that scenario in bed at night till you turn blue; to have it happen and pull it off to a wildly successful conclusion in six minutes in plain sight of lower Manhattan is legendary.

01-15-2009, 05:23 PM

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steve0617

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Chesley B. Sullenburger III's resume

How TMZ got this already, I have no idea

But:

http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/...er_profile.pdf

01-15-2009, 05:24 PM

#205

ufgatorpilot

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Quote:

Originally Posted by USMCFLYR

Megyn Kelley just said on 'Bill O'Reily' that she does not expect any law suits to come out of this event (Act of God), but that she wouldn't be surprised that some "sleezy" lawyer doesn't try to bring up a law suite - although Bill said that if one did - he would spotlight them

USMCFLYR

I don't know, I would be surprised if a lawsuit did not come out of this. This is why I hate the legal profession. Like, the guy that is suing United because he claims they served him too many drinks and that caused him to hit his wife. There is always an idiot lawyer to represent these people.

01-15-2009, 05:32 PM

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Baronpilot

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Very AWESOME job by the whole crew. It couldn't have been done any better.

01-15-2009, 05:35 PM

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Lab Rat

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Originally Posted by ufgatorpilot

I wouldn't blame the lawyers as much as I would blame the people initiating the lawsuits - and to a greater extent the lawmakers who make it possible in the first place.

Lawyers are just doing their jobs as an opportunist. The right to file a lawsuit is there and the person(s) filing the suits are in need of representation. Lawyers are simply filling the role for representation.

01-15-2009, 05:36 PM

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onetogo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by steve0617

How TMZ got this already, I have no idea

But:

http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_documents/...er_profile.pdf

M.S. from Purdue. Boiler Up.

01-15-2009, 05:40 PM

#209

DamonMeyer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by VmoMmo

Check this out......

LaGuardia Airport - AirportMonitor - by Megadata - powered by PASSUR

LaGuardia "Airport Monitor". Change time to 15:26, click start, click on first airplane that departs (turns green) and the flight info is shown on the right.

Looks like N461SA had front row seats (chopper heading north up the river at 1000ft).

That's an excellent track, better than Flightaware. This one shows a return right down to 500 feet. Notice the icon turning red over the Bronx - I think that's when the crew declared an emergency. They had just enough time to turn south over the GW, and line it up really nicely in the river. These guys really did fly it all the way in - awesome outcome!