The co was mentioned by some newsperson this morning, as a verbal
addendum, but her co-anchor talked over her, making it a murmur.
I'd love to find out exactly who was at the yoke on take-off. On an A
320 once the data is punched into the flight auto-pilot, the plane can
and frequently is taken off and performs it climb-out automatically.
Same with Boeing's planes. Some Captains have the Co-pilot do the take
off. They both should be "at the ready" over the controls during
transitions such as take-offs and landings, but the majority of all
flights are flown on auto-pilot now days, only interrupted by commands
from ATC that would deviate from their input flight plan.
Can't take anything away from "Sully" in this case, as I'm sure
whoever was flying, or not, when the strike happened he was apparently
the one who took over and landed the thing in the very perfect way
that he did.
We will learn more... Aviation Week & Space Technology will have
something on it in about 3 months (initial findings) and a final
report in about a year.
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
On Jan 16, 2009, at 13:38 , ann sanfedele wrote:
Being in NY, I'm getting even more than the usual amount of
saturation on this story --
There are lots of west side folk who saw it from their windows...
including some news guys from their window...
one of whom said he went for his camera, then reminded himself the
thing to do was call 911 FIRST.
On NPR this morning someone pointed out no one had even mentioned
the co-pilot ...
This will probably be corrected at some point...
Amazing story - wonderful ending.
ann
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.
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