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US Airways plane crashes in the Hudson river
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I think you are thinking of a myth busters episode and not ....um actual NTSB/FAA testing.
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Basically that whole episode was loaded with failures.
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I frequently find that the case with the show.
They'll "disprove" some myth by completely doing it wrong. and I'll be like, are your typical viewers really this stupid?
Only problem: from now on he will be expected to end every flight with a heroic crash landing.
Dude's set the bar high for the next guy.
My other sig sucks as well...
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You guys beat me to it, winning this thread.
Man that is pretty crazy. From the wiki article it sounds like despite the difficulty of the maneuver, pilots had a sentimental love affair with the uniquely challenging approach.
Pretty much guaranteed that he'll never have one of those "have I wasted my life?" moments ever again.
Seriously... for the rest of his life he can look back at pretty much everything he did leading up to that day and say to himself "Well I may have regretted that at one point but it led me to be the person I was, flying that plane on that day, when it could have been someone else and the results could have been tragedy".
It would be really interesting to hear, in a few years, how he does think of it.
For some reason I imagine he'd say something like "well, I landed the plane." Like he just did what he was supposed to do.
Well the man is pretty much the hero of the hour for the nation, so it's natural to unconsciously ascribe virtues to him that he hasn't displayed (not to say that he doesn't possess them), such as humility.
Actually, you know what? The man's a pilot. I now doubt humility is one of his traits.
An USAF pilot at that.
I'm sure at the very least that he has excellent self-esteem.
Heck, at this point he's earned the right to be cocky.
Man, that shit's crazier than the approach the Air Force used to get into Kirkuk...and that was to dodge enemy fire.
Also:
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again? I missed something" Lazarus Long
Of course, like all national prestige projects the US gov will never actually choose Airbus in a million years. I think they're doing it to piss off and humiliate Boeing a little.
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CNN has the video of the crash in the Hudson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9CZivaR0tU
dangit!
Some puppies in the cargo hold also died.
Air tankers is one thing, but the plane to carry the president of the USA? It is very much a national prestige thing, I don't see them ever choosing Airbus. The only way I see them choosing Airbus is if all American plane makers suddenly went bankrupt and stopped making those types of planes.
Hell, googling up the tanker thing it looks like it has gone down a shit storm. If they choose Airbus for air force one I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bloody revolution.
Oh, looking up that Airbus tanker thing is quite interesting. Looks like it isn't yet set in stone according to wikipedia:
Northrop Grummen renamed the A330 the KC-45. (to help explain the above)
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Fix'd that for you. As we all know, the pilot had nothing to do with the safe landing of that plane; it was God's doing.
edit - whoops, got me too, only watched half of it.