A Cool Cucumber!
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frank_f15
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I have not heard the tape. but i try to imajine landing a plane that big, no power on water and having it all go well. I wonder how he will feel if/when he ever gets back in the cokpit
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JohnDeere4300
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Good Evenin Bill,
The captain allways goes down with their ship, remember ?
Good Evenin Scott,
I think the next time i fly out to California to see my sister i may try
and find out if this pilot is flying the plane, if not i may drive.
rox
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Good Evenin Bill,
The captain allways goes down with their ship, remember ?
Scotty- Unless you are Greek Ferry Boat operaors, remember that captain and his crew. They were the first ones off the sinking ferry, comandered a life boat just for themselves and took off fore shore and left everyone to fend for themselves and a lot of people died. Do you remember that? Now comapre those guys to the Pilot on US Airways. This miracle if it had to happen, could not have come at a better time.
I is a very uplifting event and it makes you feel good, and we need that in these times. I think I read wehre he is also a glider pilot so I bet that helped.
Agree wth others, not jsut the pilot but everyone stayed cool and did their job, it makes you feel good, it's uplifting.
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Good Mornin Rox,
Yes it was a great story ! Even the passengers seemed orderly when exiting the plane and standing on the wings ! Im sure the pilots demeanor had a lot to do with an orderly exit of the plane ! And of course lets not forget the ferry boat captains that came to the rescue almost immediately !
riptides
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I heard on the news that the co-pilot told the captain no one had ever done a successful ditch before.
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on talk radio, they were discussing this amazing feat, he took the time to remind the exit row people to review the cards and get ready, told people what was going to happen, got every one in position and ditched a passenger plane on water, witch had never been done successfully.
An amazing man, wish we had more like him
An amazing man, wish we had more like him
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I wonder why that is? I am purely speculating, but apart from having to ditch a commercial transport being exceedingly rare, maybe it is the tendency to try and raise the nose too high causing the tail section to strike the water first, which would pitch the nose down rather violently, "submarining" the aircraft which likely would cause it to break up. I've seen file footage of WWII fighters ditching where it seemed that this is what was happening. Or not keeping the wings level. We have all seen the video of the hijacked Ethiopian Boeing 767 not making a successful ditching off the coast of the Comoros Islands. Keeping the wings level is definitely a must do. The engine nacelles might "ski" on the surface of the water for a time acting like outrigger pontoons, but will eventually submerge, hopefully not ripping off too soon.
The chance of success is probably a little better with a high-wing aircraft.
Dash-8s have "ditching dams" that help to keep seawater from entering through the open pax doors if the aircraft has to ditch.
Anyway, an amazing job by that flight crew, don't forget there were 2 of them in the cockpit! They didn't even wrinkle the fuse.
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riptides
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In regards to ditching, I think going with the river current took some of the stress out of the airframe. Less drag.