On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:43 , John Francis wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:27:28PM -0500, frank theriault wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, jtainter <jtain...@mindspring.com>
wrote:
"Apparently flew into a flock of geese and got bird strikes on
both engines just after take-off"
No doubt Frank will feel vindicated to know that the birds may
have been Canada Geese.
I was thinking exactly that thing as I read the story in the paper
this morning. Quite the amazing job that pilot did, guiding the
aircraft to a safe landing in the drink with no engines. He's a
hero.
That's pretty much the slant on the news stories out here, too.
Of course the fact that he's a bay area local with a long history
of service (including teaching emergency safety techniques) helps.
From listening to all the expert talking heads on the tube today, it
looks like what this Captain had was instinct to know he could not
make it to any airport safely, and the ability and presence of mind to
treat this as a normal but wheels up landing. That's what "the book"
calls for. The crew stayed calm which kept the passengers reasonably
calm.
Also have to hand it to the pilots of all those boats for doing the
right thing getting the folks on board and inside where it's warm and
sheltered ASAP.
There will be hundreds of stories to come out of this in the next few
months. I look forward to the minutia that is a part of all this. I
did the photography of more than one crash while in the Navy and
became interested in the science of accident investigation.
Best to all involved...
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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