2009-02-07 09:12:31
gdpmumin:
gdpmumin:
You honestly think that any and every commercial pilot could have landed that plane in the river without any casualties whatsoever?
Clearly not – I’ve been a pilot for 30+ years, flew F4′s in the US Air Force (just a couple of years after Sully), have 11K non-commercial aviation flight hours of experience and I can’t recall another successful ditching of a commercial airliner.
He did a good job – nobody is minimizing that, and he demonstrated terrific CRM and aplomb. Especially walking the aisles to confirm everyone was off the plane. But lets not discount pure luck and/or divine intervention in that days activities.
