OT: [Old News] US Airways plane down in Hudson River, NY
Jan 15, 2009, 4:10 pm
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What a fantastic pilot. ^
This is the map of the flight, it would appear the aircraft was in the air for approx 6 minutes; http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...004Z/KLGA/KCLT
This is the map of the flight, it would appear the aircraft was in the air for approx 6 minutes; http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...004Z/KLGA/KCLT
Jan 15, 2009, 4:10 pm
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There I was writing an Airbus A319/320/321 cabin safety quiz as you are all such regular users. Looks like a couple of the questions that I was going to ask are going to be a bit easier for you to answer.
Happy landings
Spottie.
Happy landings
Spottie.
Jan 15, 2009, 4:17 pm
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Unfortunately I would not be surprised if in a few days we don't have some people posting somewhere on FT to criticise the crew for something or other which they perceive should have been done differently - I'm sure it happened in threads on recent incidents such as CO in DEN, BA in LHR and AF in YUL etc.
Jan 15, 2009, 4:43 pm
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Unfortunately I would not be surprised if in a few days we don't have some people posting somewhere on FT to criticise the crew for something or other which they perceive should have been done differently - I'm sure it happened in threads on recent incidents such as CO in DEN, BA in LHR and AF in YUL etc.
Jan 15, 2009, 5:05 pm
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Wait and see. It's possible there will be criticism to go around, but I'll be surprised if it will be aimed at airline or aircrew....the airport is generally the prime contender, because they actually have responsibility to manage the problem. interesting to hear more details of what actually happened...
Jan 15, 2009, 5:15 pm
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Jan 15, 2009, 5:19 pm
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Jan 15, 2009, 5:30 pm
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Comes of writing a PhD and realising that ALL Western news coverage of my research area is woefully simplistic and riddled with flaws. If they are like that on something I do know about, they are unlikely to be better on a subject I don't know about!
Jan 15, 2009, 5:34 pm
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Jan 15, 2009, 5:40 pm
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Jan 15, 2009, 6:05 pm
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I was surprised to see Sky had Eric Moody on the phone (unfortunately mostly just talking about the pictures as we saw them live too, not adding a whole heap of value)...before the usual Rentagob Learmount could be found...
