US Air type in the Hudson?????????

[flynryan15]

CRASH EQUALS DRAMA ditching is boring!!!

 

[IFLYHI]

My high school physics teacher was a diver that helped recover the bodies of the 1960 Eastern Airlines crash at Logan. He said that many of the victims were still strapped in their seats, so they just removed the seats from the rails, and took the bodies out one row at a time. 62 people were killed when that airplane hit a flock of birds (starlings?).

Glad this one had a much better ending. Kudos to the crew!

 

[SNAFU22]

Hi, it's been a while since I posted on this forum. I actually have a couple of questions. ( I have been a flight attendant since 1998 off and on ). Why does the news call this a "crash"? I always thought a crash is when the fuselage is broken? So, I assume it is an emergency landing (ditching) in water.

A very successful one at that. The only other successful ditching I think was with Antilles or Alm airlines, even though people perished I believe the plane was landed successfully in the water and this example has been used for CRM classes.

I actually brought up birdstrikes in my last training class there is a website like www.birdstrike.org in which people can read about the dangers of birdstrikes..

Other than that I've always been told in training, believe me "you won't ever have to face a ditching" well today it happened and my congradulations to the crew of US Airways.

Some media types call it a "crash" because they simply dont know. One reporter called it a twin engine jet, correct although I imagine something smaller than the A320 when I hear that.

If we aviation nerds suddenly found ourselves in other careers we might not fully grasp the lingo related with different career fields.

 

[SiuDude]

They went down near 48th street. Sounds like the USAF pilot was trying to make it onto the Intrepid!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Hi, it's been a while since I posted on this forum.

Welcome back MissKittyKat. It's been a while! :beer:

 

[MissKittyKat]

Thanks for the reply, right it's not a "crash" unless the fuselage is broken up, this is a successful emergency landing in the water.

What is hard for me to believe is all the trainers in classes have said " oh you need not worry about a ditching" it won't happen. Some of my bases, were Guam.... water.... Mia....water...Pie.....water...Fll...water, I hope this example is used for future CRM classes and training, that a successful ditching can be done!

 

[Mach 80]

I'm tired of people saying the outcome of the flight was "a miracle". It wasn't a miracle -- it was people doing a fantastic job.

 

[Captzaahlie]

Welcome back MissKittyKat. It's been a while! :beer:

meow?

Or MEWOW!

 

[Captzaahlie]

Thanks for the reply, right it's not a "crash" unless the fuselage is broken up, this is a successful emergency landing in the water.

What is hard for me to believe is all the trainers in classes have said " oh you need not worry about a ditching" it won't happen. Some of my bases, were Guam.... water.... Mia....water...Pie.....water...Fll...water, I hope this example is used for future CRM classes and training, that a successful ditching can be done!

It would in fact be nice if we can all learn from this.
Reality is that many training departments do just the least of what is demanded by 121 regulations.
Not all, but many......

 

[McNugget]

GO USAPA! Yay!