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im sure any qualified pilot could do it....
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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!
03/24/09
He should count himself lucky that he wasn't fired for destroying a $75,000,000 aircraft.
03/24/09
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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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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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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the video of him slipping that jet sideways over the golfcourse is scary!
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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.
03/23/09
Tell me he's already been awarded some sort of medal?
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