"Sully' likes to fly United

What I noticed about the whole incident was?

When they had a program about the incident the rear flight attendant said she didn’t know she was in the water till she looked out the window after landing. What if someone had drowned. Capt. Sully said brace for impact but could have added at the point of decision to go in the river. “prepare for ditching”. As we all know there are life vest under each seat. If someone had drowned this would have been brought up. Not hard to get out as I’ve had passengers take then out and inflate them for fun.

Capt. (Skyvan 5 years, CV-580 10 years, 727 21 years) close to 30,000 hrs

Chris

[QUOTE=27vet;1492296]Why did that pilot not get the Victoria Cross or the keys to New York or have Tom Cruise star in a movie about it? QUOTE]

Maybe because Captain Sullenberger is American and these pilots were El Salvadorean.
Movies dealing with American heroes are obviously more marketable in Tinseltown.

Here is an account of the B737 incident, courtesy of http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/flameout.html: I’m lambasting the press here. Did this guy receive the publicity that Sully received? What is more, they flew the plane out of there after repairing the engines if I remember correctly……>
In the early afternoon of May 24, 1988, TACA Flight 110, a Salvadoran Boeing 737 arriving from Belize, was picking its way among thunderstorms ringing New Orleans when the unthinkable happened: Both of the airliner’s jet engines quit. Frantically, the crew members tried to restart them. At first they thought they had succeeded: Okay, one crew member radioed to controllers as the craft descended through 4,000 feet, we’ve got both engines back now. But relief evaporated less than a minute later. The engines would not accelerate from idle speed, and dangerously rising tailpipe temperatures forced the crew to shut them down again.
I don’t think that I will make it, I don’t have any power on the engines here sir, so I guess we having to go down, we have to go down, we declare emergency….
TACA 110, there is the interstate highway directly ahead of you….
I don’t believe we gonna be able to make it there sir, we’re at 2,000 and we’re losing altitude…. The only thing I do right now is make a 360 and I’ll land over the water sir.
TACA 110, I show your altitude now 700 feet.
Seven minutes later another airplane, at the request of the air traffic controller, flew over the area where the 737’s radar target had disappeared. The pilot caught sight of the airliner incongruously parked on the embankment of a levee beside Lake Borgne, its escape chutes deployed. With remarkable airmanship, Captain Carlos Dardano had dead-sticked the 737 onto a mile-long patch of rain-soaked earth. The airplane and its passengers were unharmed.
Initially, it was planned to remove the wings and transport the airplane to a repair facility by barge, but Boeing engineers and test pilots decided to perform an engine change on site and to take off from the grass levee. The 737 was flown to the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport where other maintenance work was performed. The particular plane was then returned to service, and as of September 2007, it flew for Southwest Airlines.

You’re supposed to laugh!

Why did that pilot not get the Victoria Cross….

Possibly because the Victoria Cross is the highest British military honour, and is only awarded in wartime for acts of exceptional courage and tenacity in the face of the enemy.

A few years back, I’m not sure where and when now, but a B737 had a double flameout during a storm and the crew managed to land safely (deadstick) on a levee also without injury or loss of life. Correct me if I am wrong? Why did that pilot not get the Victoria Cross or the keys to New York or have Tom Cruise star in a movie about it? The DC9 guys who crashed on a road did an amazing job, too bad they were killed, there wasn’t a mile wide open space for them to put it down. I admire Sully, but let’s keep things in perspective, there are a lot of unsung heroes out there.

LMAO, worked for me Steve!:D

…with reports Tom Cruise will play the 58-year-old in a move based on the landing.

Oh dear…:D:diablo:

Well it made me laugh! :rolleyes:

I feel like I have just wasted a minute of my day reading that. What a pointless article.

Maybe you need a sense of humour transplant :rolleyes:

Is this the Australian version of Onion News?

I feel like I have just wasted a minute of my day reading that. What a pointless article.