I'm pretty sure many of us have heard of what happened today with the US Airways incident.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_re_us/plane_in_river_pilot
Srsly though, this guy IS awesome. To be so collective during that situation and beyond.... I would have jumped out the plane..>.>;;
The way the article was written made it seem like a "Oh yea, it was cool" kind of feel to it.
Yeah. I can't find the other articles anymore about the incident. Only one I can post xP
Then again, I only use Yahoo news since I'm lazy to click my mouse for other sites..>.>;
The pilot deserves a medal. That was a textbook emergency water landing. Hell the NYC disaster response was all textbook. I was watching the news during lunch break today, though I really wasn't paying attention at first. I looked up, saw the caption. Flight Crash in NYC. My first thought was. "****...another September eleventh." Then I saw it was a water landing, so I figured. "How big of a bird was it?"
birds. it was a whole flock i heard. osama needs to train better terrorist birds. they didn't fly into the engines at the right time.
that pilot deserves a Fing cookie
I can see it now. Mayor Bloomberg offers key to the city to the pilot, and all he says is, "Oh, thank you, but I'd rather have a cookie."
Quote from: Kandybar on January 16, 2009, 01:03:16 PM
I can see it now. Mayor Bloomberg offers key to the city to the pilot, and all he says is, "Oh, thank you, but I'd rather have a cookie."
How about a Key to the city with a bucket of cookies tied to the end of it. :O
Quote from: JTchinoy on January 16, 2009, 02:19:59 PM
Quote from: Kandybar on January 16, 2009, 01:03:16 PM
I can see it now. Mayor Bloomberg offers key to the city to the pilot, and all he says is, "Oh, thank you, but I'd rather have a cookie."
How about a Key to the city with a bucket of cookies tied to the end of it. :O
Or or... the key to a cookie factory. :D
But on a serious note, that guy handles pressure extremely well.
That guy is awesome. I agree he deserves a cookie. I would've panicked.
He had been in the military. Apparently he was in the Army, and I guess he flew planes or something. So he had experience beforehand. I had to leave when the news people where talking about it, so I dunno. I think it's cool that he saved lives, and that he is being rewarded.
he was a fighter pilot in the air force apparently... not surprised he was able to remain so calm and collected - a lot of the pilots that i work with are under constant pressure and they gotta handle it well else things go boom. :)
nevertheless, yay u.s. airways dude! and damn you birds! (FYI, certain personnel that work on the flightline are trained to shoot at birds. LULZ.)
I'm still suprised on how bird(s) could take down not 1 but 2 engines...
again its awesome of him to save 155+ (considering the familes of the ppl on the plane) a LOT of grief.
not everyday the news is actually GOOD news.
oh and something about a new president got sworn in today.
I wonder if anyone started a thread about that yet. ::)