Miracle on the Hudson

DaAccord98 · Jan 27, 2009

i live 2 mins from where it landed.... and it was crazyyyyy

boshi · Jan 27, 2009

I live a few mins from where the pilot lives

his daughter goes to my sister's school

talontsiawd · Jan 28, 2009

boshi said:
I live a few mins from where the pilot lives
his daughter goes to my sister's school

Yeah, i just learned he was from Danville, that's wild.

This is alot crazier than many people realize. There is pretty much no such thing as a successful water landing. You can give everyone else credit involved but the pilot is absolutely amazing. Infact, i would bet his mentality was really to only land without killing anyone outside of the plane, any survivors would be a plus.

pyaarawala · Jan 29, 2009

That is amazing. Scares the hell outta me though. How are planes supposed to know if a flock of birds are coming up or something so it doesn't happen again?

CrosCntryAccord · Jan 29, 2009

pyaarawala said:
That is amazing. Scares the hell outta me though. How are planes supposed to know if a flock of birds are coming up or something so it doesn't happen again?

to my knowledge there is no sort of warning system for flying animals that works with the extremely antiquated flying system we use (25+ years old) and even if there is the military has yet to use it with success so i don't see a civilian adaptation being worth the companies money. usually most of these incidents happen at low altitude where pilots have a better chance at saving the lives of the passengers.

this is one of the major downsides to twin turbine engines since it drastically reduces the capability of a full flight to maneuver to a safe landing area should an engine fail (its happened before that a single bird went through an engine and with three remaining engines the plane was able to fly and make an emergency landing since the each engine has its own throttle the juxtaposing engine can be dethrottled and the plane will maintain its thrust balance)