Nice job by US Air Captain

[AllanL]

Not only an astonishing and calm performance from the pilot - I saw one comment from a rescuer that he looked like "David Niven in a pilot's uniform", but the speed and ability of the ferries to get alongside and then maintain their positions as the fuselage drifts quite rapidly downstream was impressive. There is a better copy of the USCG film on the NYTimes website. You even get to see Concorde in the background.

[nigelb]

Sorry guys
In the shots from the helicopters immeadiatly after the ditching BOTh engines were still attached

The reason they couldnt use the aft doors was they were jammed when the aircraft hit tail first

But yesterday they had divers determine that the engines were NOT attached and they started to search the Hudson using sonar to find the two missing engines.

Nigel²

[Nigel H-J]

Another here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7835497.stm
Nigel.

[Chris558]

Today, a year ago was the Heathow crash-landing, aswell... :o

[speedbird591]

if nothing else is learnt from this accident, at least it resolves the quandary of whether to pay the extra for business class ...



Ian

[SkippyBing]

[Paul K]

if nothing else is learnt from this accident, at least it resolves the quandary of whether to pay the extra for business class ...

Ian

Oh very good !

[airboatr]

one engine confirmed is still attached ,

the other ...... ...

btw ..............I will be posting a pic of new airboat soon.
:tab:

[speedbird591]

one engine confirmed is still attached

Someone tell Leif it's OK to come back ... He's not going crazy he DID see an engine attached! I wonder why the divers didn't think to look under the wing?

But what does that tell us about Airbus (tongue in cheek, btw!)? We think that, in general, Airbus engines (unlike Boeings) are not designed to shear on impact although we're not sure about this model. So we've got a perfect ditching situation on calm water at the correct angle and speed so you might expect both pylons to react similarly :think:

But we're dealing with a European consortium so possible scenarios are that

1. The designers couldn't agree - so settled for a compromise.
2. The starboard pylon was built in Germany and the port one in Italy.
3. The port pylon was built in Greece with cheap materials and the profits going to politicians.
4. A French manager fitted the wrong pin while the technicians were on strike.

Any other suggestions?

Ian

[airboatr]

I would think the engine that didn't stay on was the one from Italy..
kinda fits really .. you lnow...... Ciao ! ..

it was the left engine that .... left ... the right one stayed on

I believe that the captian was so good and so foresitefull<<<<< :think: (new word)
that he landed in such a way, one would go and the other stay , that way everybody would be half right.

for petes sake.........