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    Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel

    Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey

    Photos of Plane Being Lifted From the Hudson Are Staggering

    Timelapse Video: US Airways Airbus 320 Being Raised from the Depths of the Hudson River

    Flight Simulation of the Hudson River Waterlanding

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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    03/24/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    A lot of people are misinformed about how skilled Scully was behind the controls. In fact, he was very uncomfortable sitting behind the wheel. The many buttons and knobs bewildered him. Instead, would attach reigns to the nose and stand atop the plane steering it with brawn alone. This method was never formally adopted by other pilots or recognized by the FAA since no other pilot besides Scully figured out how to coax a 400 ton aircraft to a cruising speed of 500 mph.
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    03/24/09

    @N@tedog: Did he master the skills in the deep desert riding atop the great Shai' Halud?
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    03/24/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    ummm..good pilot and everything...saved a lot of lives and stuff..... but i wwouldnt hype him up like that...its not like a choice he had to land somewhere else...landing on water isnt that difficult...its a wide open place..not like on the highway where you have to worry about cars and brides and streetlamps.....


    im sure any qualified pilot could do it....

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    03/24/09

    @henhen: You're correct. Any pilot can land on water. It's the whole keeping the plane intact thing that's difficult.
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    03/24/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    Yeah I really admire this pilot and crew.


    It's really down to the right decisions at the right time to avoid disaster, and these folks were in the zone.


    AGAIN I applaud, and will continue to do so.


    I've always wanted to be a pilot, but who wouldn't want to be a heroic pilot?


    THAT'S just the SHIT!

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    03/24/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    Seriously, he was not a hero, he was not brave and he didn't have "Nerves of Steel". He was doing his job and he made a difficult decision.


    He should count himself lucky that he wasn't fired for destroying a $75,000,000 aircraft.

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    03/24/09

    @Super Sonic: So by your definition, police, firemen, ems, etc are not nor can ever be heros, as it is their job?


    But you are right. He should have been fired for saving all those lives+the plane after animals flew into his engines causing them to stop. If he had just nose dived it into NYC, there's no chance he would have been fired.

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    I love the ATC guy. He almost reminds me of the dispatcher from the chimp lady. Sulley is giving him a pretty good indication that he's going down pretty quickly and can't make it to Teteroboro, and the ATC is like, "well, what runway would you like?". Then he disappears from the radar after saying he was going in the Hudson, and he goes "You , uh , also have Newark Airport, if you want to fly over there." I just find it a little humorous.
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    03/23/09

    @RattedOutAnneFrank!_GitEmSteveDave: Yeah. If you take the control dude into consideration, the captain was even better at keeping his cool. I would have screamed: "ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID, CAN'T WE SEE WE ARE GOING DOWN AND STOP ASKING DUMB QUESTIONS?! AND WE ARE FUCKING CACTUS 15FOURTYNINE. IS THAT TOO HARD TO REMEMBER, DUMBASS?"
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    03/23/09

    @Jesus Diaz: Oh Sulley was the epitome of cool. As Pinky said in Heist: "He's so cool, sheep count him at night." The first time I heard it, just him saying the word "Unable" had me going, "Oh shit".


    If you ever heard the chimp attack tape, you can almost hear the dispatcher laughing. Yeah, it does sound like a prank at first with the chimp scream, but the terror in that ladies voice was SO real. But hey, these guys(dispatchers/controllers/etc..) deal with so much crap and at a point where they can't do much of anything b/c of the distance, it doesn't surprise me they detatch to a point.

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    wow you can hear the focus in Sully's voice a sort of knife edge concentration...crazy. I'm sure normally he wouldn't be talking so fast and in brief sentences on the radio since it would take a lot of repeats to convey what he wants
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    03/23/09

    @aerospaceman: IIRC, he wasn't supposed to be talking, and it should have been the co-pilot, but he was busy getting other stuff ready, so Sulley did double duty.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    Wow, that is touching. I was riveted! Thank you Jesus, another wonderful clip.
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    03/23/09

    @Software_Goddess: Despite the low quality of the video, my heart was in my throat just imagining how frightening that must have been for everyone in that plane. Kudos to the amazing pilot and crew for maintaining such level heads!
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    03/23/09

    @BeautifulAgony: @Software_Goddess: Ok you two, what's with the high heels?
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    With all due respect (and credit) to Sully, I'd say the pilots of Air Canada 143 ([en.wikipedia.org]) or Air Transat 236 ([en.wikipedia.org]) did even more impressive jobs at saving the day.


    In both cases, they lost all engines, glided many, many miles, and planted the wheels in specific spots on faraway runways.


    Sully did an excellent job, but the decision to land in the Hudson was a no-brainer, and he didn't have to land at any one point in the river. A great job, but perhaps not as challenging as the aforementioned examples.

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    03/23/09

    @GizMadone: Yeah ... the Gimli Glider is the shit!
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    03/23/09

    @GizMadone: Hitting water is not like hitting a pillow.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/23/09

    @Fenister: Aircrash Investigation / Mayday! did a program on the Gimli Glider..


    the video of him slipping that jet sideways over the golfcourse is scary!

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    03/23/09

    @Maori_Yelir: Indeed. Landing on water will result on disaster 99% of the time. What this guy did was masterful @GizMadone and trying to minimize it by comparing it to whofuckingever is just dumb.
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    03/24/09

    @GizMadone: I once landed a b
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    03/24/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Stupid enter button.


    Said I landed a B-17 with no power on an aircraft carrier in a sim. I think it was on my Dell Dimension. Where's my parade?


    Anyway, all this notwithstanding, I feel as though the examples could've come across better than feeling like a "better than Sully" thing. Really, it's still quite impressive.

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    03/23/09

    In reply to Hudson Crash Simulation with FAA Voice Recordings Shows Captain's Nerves of Steel
    That dude is the reason a lot of people are still alive.

    Tell me he's already been awarded some sort of medal?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/23/09

    @musicman119: Key to the city.
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    03/23/09

    @musicman119: He was brought up on stage during the Superbowl kickoff ceremony!
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    02/03/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    Looks like Ark II.
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    Image of Rashad Rose Rashad Rose
    02/02/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    Hey! that truck's driving on the wrong side of the road.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    02/02/09

    @Rashad Rose: Not in NJ. In the town it was driving thru, due to it's heavy English population and founding by Ex-British troops after the revolutionary war, they petitioned the state DOT to reverse the flow of traffic on most of the roads in their municipality. It was a big story in the local news around here, but it's done wonders for their tourism and also the police force handing out tickets for driving on the wrong side of the road. I myself have a "I drove backwards through Van Hiseville, NJ and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker" bumper sticker.
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    02/02/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    Never mind. It's in Harrison, NJ. Which means it should be stripped by tomorrow and home to seven vagrants by Thursday. By next week, every surface will be able to give you hepatitis C.
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    02/02/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Let me guess, that's just from looking at them.
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    02/02/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    Well, we know they didn't haul it through Newark. The rig and flatbed would be up on blocks, with the plane on fire if they had.
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    02/02/09

    @Lite: split a beer atom.: You're thinking about Trenton.


    In Newark, it would just have lots of graffiti and garbage stuffed into every possible nook and cranny.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02/02/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: With large holes knocked in the fuselage? I just remember my drive through Newark reminding me of photos of Beirut.
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    02/02/09

    @Lite: split a beer atom.: If it went through Newark, it would be riddled with bullet holes. And by the time it got to Harrison, it would be on fire.
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    02/02/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Given the price of scrap aluminum, it wouldn't make it that far. You'd see it being pushed in a shopping cart.
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    02/02/09

    @Lite: split a beer atom.: I don't know. Looks like someone already stole the wings.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/02/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    We're not the "Lower Forty-Eight". Alaska and Hawaii are freak States.
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    02/02/09

    In reply to Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
    I live in NJ y'know
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    02/02/09

    @videoCWK: Oh. Well that changes everything.
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    02/02/09

    @videoCWK: You're going to die in New Jersey. Real convenient.


    (name the movie that's inspired by)

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    02/02/09

    @videoCWK: What Exit?


    @OMG! Ponies!: Damn, it sounds like a sci-fi film.

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