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Let's revisit "The Miracle on the Hudson," the 2009 ditching of an aircraft carrying 155 souls into New York City's Hudson River, which separates Manhattan from New Jersey.
The nearly impossible landing, Capitan Sullenberger executed perfectly saving lives of everyone on the board.
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...happened exactly 15 years ago.
Let's revisit "The Miracle on the Hudson," the 2009 ditching of an aircraft carrying 155 souls into New York City's Hudson River, which separates Manhattan from New Jersey.
The nearly impossible landing, Capitan Sullenberger executed perfectly saving lives of everyone on the board.
Not only did he execute the nearly impossible landing perfectly, he walked to the back of the cabin TWICE to make sure everyone got out. This flight will be part of aviation lore for many, many years to come.
He'd spent years teaching emergency water landing technique, which is why he was able to execute it so perfectly. Even so, it was under very challenging conditions; he had all those bridges to avoid with very little room for error. Another reason he was able to handle it was, that he had experience flying gliders. In one of his interviews, when asked how you fly a plane with no functional engines, he said, "you glide it".
He was the right person in the right place and time. If it had been anyone else, the chances would have been higher for a less-than-ideal result. Is there a God? It makes you wonder.
There was side note in the NTSB report.. the airbus software fought him just before splashdown, he had to do this wheels up and it didnt like the idea.
The Sullenberger Aviation Museum reopens this summer after temporarily closing in 2019 to move to a new location. Excited to see the new and improved exhibit around the aircraft from that day and expanded stories from the crew and passengers.
We don’t have a lot of heroes in this crazy chaotic world anymore. But Sullenberger is one of them.
He was so humble, too. He didn't understand why he was getting all the media attention, and being called a hero. He said he was just doing his job, the job he'd trained for. He was confused by all fanfare.
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He has chosen to continue to live a 'higher life', applying and communicating learnings from an unexpected event that totally changed his / their life.
You can follow the details of how immediately complicated their lives became.
(5) days later, at the US Presidential Inaguration and many other events... (Super Bowl appearance...) No time to process / digest / heal. But later he revealed this, and worked to correct the consequences, and apply leanrings to others, including pilot stress and safety.
Pretty well rounded, considering the difficulties of his life.
Sullenberger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and basic sciences from the United States Air Force Academy. He also earned a master's degree in industrial-organizational psychology from Purdue University in 1973 and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado in 1979.[18]
Sully living a very purposed life - that's impressive. (But not unexpected of his history / personality... He's always purposed)
Gives one an interest in thought... What's important in life?
What are we each doing to pursue that?
There was side note in the NTSB report.. the airbus software fought him just before splashdown, he had to do this wheels up and it didnt like the idea.
I think I may like to see a cite for that. I have no doubt there was a wheels-up warning (among, undoubtedly, many others).
It's noteworthy that the envelope protection kept the aircraft from stalling several times. Something Sullenberger knew the flight software could and would do while operating in Airbus Normal Law. In other words, he knew his aircraft to the nth degree. The proof of that, to my mind, has always been that he immediately powered up the APU. Not a checklist item at that stage, just a professional going with gut and instinct. 100% he right decision: APU running = aircraft has multiple electricity sources = aircraft is certain to remain in Normal Law.
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