10th anniversary Miracle on the Hudson River

David MacRay · Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:49 am

I can't believe it's been 10 years. I don't think of it being in 2009 I think because we were talking about it for so long. Just imaging that being a pilotless flight.

Colonel · Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:27 pm

I remember the chairborne warriors at the NTSB
tried to fuck Sully, then lied about it afterwards.

Chuck Ellsworth · Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:22 am

Not bad for a four bar was it Andy. :) :) :)

Colonel · Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:43 am

He was the real deal.

USAF F-4 fighter pilot.

vanNostrum · Thu Jan 17, 2019 3:36 am

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I remember the chairborne warriors at the NTSB
tried to fuck Sully, then lied about it afterwards.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/v0FLSSPRTD8

Colonel · Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:30 am

Iâ€™m a sucker for a happy ending, even a revisionist one.

Talk to Captains Pearson, PichÃ©, Burkill and Dardano about their thoughts concerning accident investigations
of double engine failures.

anofly · Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:29 pm

I ran a fairly large, expensive industrial process for close to 37 years.When the proverbial stuff hits the fan, and there is no doubt an investigation, you cannot help but feel somewhat under attack, when 10 or more very smart folks, have a few weeks, to dissect all the process and human interactions that took place in the middle of the night, over the span of 5 minutes, and ask you a lot of questions about what you did, or did not do, and why. I have been on both sides of that table, I think its a necessary process to make sure there is nothing we can fix, train better , change procedures etc.
That said it, takes a very mature type to admit they might have done better.
Sully and Skiles did an incredible job of playing what can only be described as a very bad hand.
(hit the softest thing you can find as slow as you can?)

Colonel · Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:20 am

Sully was a hero. Pearson was a goat. Tell me that wasn't cultural,
because both of them got handed a shit sandwich and were told to
take a bite. Both flew superbly.

Burkill might as well have been nailed to a cross on the infield of LHR,
drenched in 100LL and lit on fire, because let's face it, Brits are @ssholes.

Canadians shit all over Piche, because that's what Canadians do.

Everyone knows who Chuck Yeager is. No one knows who Fern Villeneuve
is. Coincidence? Not fucking likely.