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Capt Sullenberger criticizing Boeing and FAA
Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger says the FAA’s handling of the deadly crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliners in just five months has damaged the United States’ longstanding “credibility as leaders in aviation.” Sullenberger is a retired airline pilot who famously landed his US Airways jet — an Airbus 320 — in the icy Hudson River off Manhattan in January 2009, after hitting a flock of geese and losing power in both engines. All 155 people on board the plane survived. (www.newsandguts.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
to be honest what else what they have done? crashed in the city?
Awesome job of getting everyone out alive though.
Awesome job of getting everyone out alive though.
The controllers were (in good faith) setting them up to land at an airport they could not reach.
The capt recognized that the odds of getting to the airport did not justify the risk
Great command decision in the face of two bad alternatives
The capt recognized that the odds of getting to the airport did not justify the risk
Great command decision in the face of two bad alternatives
Try to make it back to the airport, perhaps????
ATC wanted to vector him to Teterboro, and I'm not aware Teterboro could handle an a/c that large.
I believe Teterboro was too far away
Fast thinking and landing back at the airport would have been a better option. At least the aircraft could have been saved.
That crew took what they felt was the best / lowest risk option
As a pilot of 54 years I am glad to had never had to make decisions like that
Sully and his FO are professional well trained and extremely competent - and that gives him more right to comment than most of the rabbit droppings on this post session below