USAIR 1549 FA story b.s.

[iaflyer]

Cause she is required to view the outside of the aircraft, through the doors window, before opening the exit......

Yeah, true, but ever tried to look out those tiny portholes? They show very little - and it looks distorted like a fish-eye lens. I don't know if I could tell whether by looking or not it was water. BUT, the big splash and sudden acceleration might cue me in.

To me - the big problem, if this is true, is that she lied for 3 months about it. I think that if she had said up front that she had made a mistake and opened the door on her own, it would of been a minor detail in the whole incident. Everyone would be impressed they made it out alive - now, the excitement over the flawless landing has subsided and now we can focus on the "lying FA".

 

[Joey Bagodonutz]

Word on the street is Sully and crew screwed up. Never moved the thrust levers out of the climb detent. Also I understand that most who have replicated this in the sim have safely landed in Teterboro. Maybe they moved the levers, or at least bothered to put them in the idle detent before attempting a restart.

 

[b707guy]

Word on the street is Sully and crew screwed up. Never moved the thrust levers out of the climb detent. Also I understand that most who have replicated this in the sim have safely landed in Teterboro. Maybe they moved the levers, or at least bothered to put them in the idle detent before attempting a restart.

Not again. Maybe if I close my eyes, it'll go away.

 

[Oh-ryan]

I'd still bang her.

 

[Colonel Savage]

I'd still bang her.

Wow! Been a while, eh?

 

[Going2Baja]

We need hard fast rules about age, weight, and strenght for f/a´s. There was a time when I fly a UAL f/a from CRQ to LAX and each time she asked me to help get her roller bag up the curb. What´s a curb´s height? 8"? THe f/a was over 60 for sure and most likely 5´2" and 100lbs at best. There is NO way she could assist anyone in an emergency - PERIOD!

Baja.

 

[Little_Bill]

It was a glitch!! A technical malfunction! Why won't anyone believe me!?

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

Now she can't have dinner with Jackie.

 

[Mookie]

Now she can't have dinner with Jackie.

awesome....I just snarfed my breakfast diet coke. I loved that part of the movie. god forbid the wife is happy her husband survived space flight.....

seriously though...this chick needs to be outed. she's was acting like such a martyr on the interviews.

 

[Mr.B]

I'd still bang her.

Atta boy Oh-ryan. Theres hope for this industry yet.

B

 

[Little_Bill]

How did Grissom's wife put it, "The wife of a squirming hatch blower".

 

[lowlycfi]

From what I remember of my F/A days, when we did door drills in recurrent every year, if you didn't make a show of looking out the window to assess conditions before you opened the door, you failed the drill, period.

"Smoke, fire, water, any obstructions; block the exit, use ABA to redirect pax and go to your secondary exit."

Plus, the window is small but it is installed so that you would be looking at where the bottom of the slide would be if deployed. On 1549 you would have seen nothing but H2O.

Panic is a bitch.

 

[CX880]

This is really stupid. The fact that they didn't die from the impact is clue enough that they might just not be in the middle of 4th street but in the river. I don't know about holes in the fuselage but the fact that she opened un unsafe door is reason enough to blame this FA for her problems. Nice touch with the lie.

 

[IBNAV8R]

At my Co., Screwing up may get you a talking to or maybe some time off but lying and covering up gets you fired - period - end of story!!

 

[PHXFLYR]

Why didnt she just say that while trying to evacuate the aircraft she attempted to open the door and realized that it was below the water line? End of story..

I thought in an emergency evac they were supposed to look out the porthole and asess whether it was safe to open the door or not? Something isn't adding up here. The question shouldn't be why did she open the door but did she asess the sitation once the airplane came to rest before doing so.

PHXFLYR