Airbus in Hudson River

[Cooley]

I also live in Danville, I cant wait to run into Sully at the store or somthin, and shake his hand

[DrDea]

  I'd buy the guy a few rounds. He did a "non" bang up job in what couldnt have been the easiest conditions. Kept the plane intact at the same time. Nice job.

[Chalenge]

He should run for Senator of New York. 

[ghi]

This guy has an amazing career and aviation safety experience.

http://safetyreliability.com/about_us

[crazyivan]

I also live in Danville, I cant wait to run into Sully at the store or somthin, and shake his hand

stalker!

[Cobra516]

It's funny how there is never any mention at all of the first officer.  There's a reason the airplane is to be flown by a crew of 2.  While the captain was flying, the co-pilot was setting everything up for the approach, checking systems, running the emergency checklists with the captain, etc.  I think they should give him some mention as well.

[crazyivan]

It's funny how there is never any mention at all of the first officer.  There's a reason the airplane is to be flown by a crew of 2.  While the captain was flying, the co-pilot was setting everything up for the approach, checking systems, running the emergency checklists with the captain, etc.  I think they should give him some mention as well.

  ahh co-pilots

[Babalonian]

He should run for Senator of New York. 

I don't know, he would probabley win, and then New York would have to deal with a Californian calling the shots (I'm all for it, but that's probabley just me).


And I strongly agree, they should recognize the co-pilot, the cabin crew, and the boat crews (ferrys, tugs, coast guard, and all the other boats that were on the scene in less than a minute) more since they all acted swiftly, made good calls and did things by the book resulting in one plane full of very lucky people.

[cpxxx]

on a vulnerable french made airliner, which, with it's superb american captain at the controls, managed a precision dead stick water landing. Sadly (but not surprisingly) the french liferafts sank....

Hangtime, very amusing but I hate to break it to you. Airbus is not French, was never French and never will be French. Stop giving the French all the credit. As for the French liferafts? Well they're American.

But back to the point. The pilots did a great job particularly the Captain. Most pilots earn their entire salary at least once in their career. If he hadn't done it before, he qualifies now.

Interestingly this is the third recent double engine failure in an airliner in recent times. There was the Heathrow 777 on finals and the more recently the Ryanair B737 which also had a birdstrike and double engine failure  while landing at Rome. That pilot did a similarly brilliant job getting the jet onto the runway but somehow never got the credit for saving everyone's life.

They say everything happens in threes, well I hope this is the end of the double engine failure trend.

[eagl]

We won't have any more double engine failures in primary flight training in AETC after about July this year...

That said, the T-6 continues to have it's one engine quit at inopportune moments.

[Fishu]

From what I've heard from the news they've been looking for the engines from the bottom of the river and they have now found one of the engines - still attached to the plane.