This has circulated via email already, but thought I'd add it here with a note. It's a computer graphic reconstruction of US Airways flight 1549 / Cactus 1549, ditching in the Hudson River by Capt Sullenberger on 15 Junary 2009. There's a couple things I like about this, like how he goes from
touching the ground to in the water in just over 7 mins, not a lot of time to react and make a decision. Also, it shows how obvious a choice it was to put it in the water vice trying to make one of the airports. Can you
imagine what news coverage wouold be like if one of our crappy 24 hour news channels would show this instead of bringing on every idiot dingaling to give his opinion?
Incidentally, right about this time (2-3 years ago), I had a buddy in Iraq who lost all four engines on a herc at low altitude after takeoff and had to put it on the gound, a fairly similar type of emergency. Saved his whole
crew and 7-10 passengers. Military does a terrible job of PR for itself - why didn't we tell that story?
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