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Hero Pilot Confirmed By Black Box
The black box recorders recovered from the crash landed jetliner have confirmed the crew's and captain's accounts of the near-tragic incident.
The recorders captured the sounds of what appear to be birds hitting the aircraft and the sudden loss of engine power. Hero pilot, Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger is heard calmly communicating with New Jersey air traffic control, discussing options for the crash landing. Just ninety seconds before they hit the Hudson he is heard directing passengers to 'brace for impact' and telling controllers that they will be in the Hudson river.
After making the crash landing the pilot and his co-pilot wlaked the length of the aircraft, twice, in freezing waters in order to confirm that all 155 passengers had disembarked safely.
Investigation is continuing into the radar data recorded at the time in the hope that it may show the flock of birds that appear to have caused the accident.
Chesley Sullenberger and his experienced crew have been praised by the National Transportation Safety Board who said that "these people knew what they were supposed to do and they did it and as a result, nobody lost their life."
Weather conditions and ice flows in the Hudson river are currently making search and recovery of the left engine too dangerous. The search is likely to continue when weather conditions improve.
This accident investigation will provide much valuable data that will make an enormously useful contribution to future aircraft design and passenger safety. Rather than focus upon what went wrong this investigation is likely to focus upon all that went right with this incident.
The pilot and his family have been invited to attend the imminent inauguration of President-elect Barrack Obama. The pilot has so far been prevented from speaking of his experience due to the pilots association having 'interested party' status with the NTSB.
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How many planes have lost engine power and landed in the hudson river since the NTSB started recording this?
I need to convince my passengers to not be scared of crashing. I want to give them some statistics. THanks
let me be more specific. how many general aviation planes as far back as we know.
ACTUALLY WHAT I REALLY MEAN IS HOW MANY MIDAIR COLLISIONS AND WATER LANDINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN THE HUDSON
There have been 12 accidents ending up in the Hudson since May 2, 1966. Only one mid-air which occurred 8-8-09 where there were 9 fatalities.
Of the other 11 there were 187 people who received minor to no injury and 6 received serious injuries.
7 of the mishaps occurred due to engine failure, the most talked about was on 1-15-09 an Airbus A320 that tried to roast geese with the engines. 7-7-07 an EC130B had the sprag clutch on the main rotor self-destruct, with 8 onboard. The pilot did a perfect autorotation, popped the floats and landed in the river with no damage except to the chopper.
On 10-3-06 an SR22 pilot was incapacitated by a brain tumor at altitude and passed out when he came to, he was descending rapidly, so he pulled the parachute cord and landed in the Hudson.
9-29-88 a pilot turned short and low and crashed in the river, a Piper PA 22S float plane hit submerged debris on 1-7-67, and a stolen J-3 Cub float plane crashed in the river May 2, 1966.
If stats mean anything that is .285 crashes per year with .214 fatal. and .142 injuries.
Flight 1549 3D Reconstruction, Hudson River Ditching Jan 15, 2009
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