The "Miracle on the Hudson" occurred.
It's still hard to believe that a commercial jet, with 155 passengers plus the crew on board, crash landed in a frigid river and all of them survived.
16 years ago today....
16 years ago today....
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain)
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shotgunshooter3
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Re: 16 years ago today....
A near miracle mix of experience, skill, crew resource management, and some luck/divine intervention. It's still studied today as a gold standard of what to do when everything goes wrong. I bet those 155 people don't think their pilots are overpaid 
Jake Skiles, the first officer from the flight, actually very recently retired.
Want to be really impressed? Listen to the ATC recording. "Sully" is ice cold on the radio, and somewhere in the background Skiles is running through checklists and making things happen to free the captain up to make decisions. https://youtu.be/5S5hRRio-E8?si=RYKJE_Ebi0KUlLdu
Jake Skiles, the first officer from the flight, actually very recently retired.
Want to be really impressed? Listen to the ATC recording. "Sully" is ice cold on the radio, and somewhere in the background Skiles is running through checklists and making things happen to free the captain up to make decisions. https://youtu.be/5S5hRRio-E8?si=RYKJE_Ebi0KUlLdu
"Speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
Re: 16 years ago today....
I was at work at the time it happened and all the pilots I worked with were truly impressed! But Sully used to fly F-4's, soooooo. 
Re: 16 years ago today....
And he was qualified glider pilot