On the Airbus 320 there is literally a "ditch button". Apparently activating it immediately closes all ram air intakes, vents, etc making the aircraft watertight.
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US AIRWAYS Crash in the Hudson River
- Thread starter foampositz
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On the Airbus 320 there is literally a "ditch button". Apparently activating it immediately closes all ram air intakes, vents, etc making the aircraft watertight.
Yep, USAFA guy former F-4 pilot.
yahoo article just released. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_us/plane_in_river
Great job to pilot and crew!!
Great job to pilot and crew!!
If he was an AF F-4 driver, then he particularly liked the 80:1 glide ratio (or whatever) of the A-320. The F-4 had a glide ratio of about 2:1 (IOW it was an aerodynamic brick).
Excellent stick and rudder skills by the US Airways pilots. Amazing ditch!
I know the Sensor One on that 47 ditch, he was my roomie one deployment with Big Red.
GroundPounder
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My favorite bit of commentary was Katie Couric asking if maybe the short runways at LGA were the cause of the accident. I also learned that airliners have radars that help avoid birds. I remember the first time I flew with a stormscope, I guess that the birdscopes have not made it down to GA yet.
Yeah, because you're WAY better at flying that tube than the guys up front with thousands of hours on their seat.
No I am doubting by any means their skills compared to mine... it would just suck in an emergency to not know what the crap is going on thats all.
I just got in from a business trip and my wife tells me that one of her Bank of America co workers was on the plane.
It's a popular flight for BOA employees that split time between Charlotte and NY. In fact my wife is booked on that flight next week. Other than getting wet and cold her team member is no worse for the wear. She hasn't been able to talk to the woman yet but evidently she borrowed a cell phone on the ferry and called her husband within a few minutes of the crash. Amazing stuff.
It's a popular flight for BOA employees that split time between Charlotte and NY. In fact my wife is booked on that flight next week. Other than getting wet and cold her team member is no worse for the wear. She hasn't been able to talk to the woman yet but evidently she borrowed a cell phone on the ferry and called her husband within a few minutes of the crash. Amazing stuff.
This little tidbit caught my eye:
"Sullenberger's co-pilot was Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran."
23 years and still a first officer?!
And... great job by the crew. I think the 'miracle' word is being thrown around to losely. It sounds like it was just a crew and captain that had its shit together.
"Sullenberger's co-pilot was Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran."
23 years and still a first officer?!
And... great job by the crew. I think the 'miracle' word is being thrown around to losely. It sounds like it was just a crew and captain that had its shit together.
I think he was getting at how much it sucks when your life is so completely in someone else's hands. Sort of how you feel strapped into the passenger seat with a really bad woman driver at the wheel.
Too late... the die has been cast by CNN et al and the event will forever be wikipediaized as "The Miracle on the Hudson."
Also: how common are FO's with 23 years in?
Xtndr50boom
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He might have gotten screwed with the USAir/America West merger. Or he was with USAir express for awhile. Furlough also counts as "time with the company", IIRC. Lots of possible factors at play, maybe not just a lousy pilot.
Outstanding job guys! The KC-10 ditching checklist has "put head between legs and kiss a$$ goodbye" as the step just after fuel levers--OFF