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Blakey
Trad climber
Newcastle UK
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Over in the UK a prestigious radio progamme ('today' on BBC Radio 4) ran an intersting piece that contrasted Christian Bales expletive laden rant at an unfortunate technician who had inadvertantly 'messed up' a take, with the pilot's spookily calm 'We're gonna be in the Hudson'.
Clearly making movies is more stressful than ditching a passenger laden airliner!
Best,
Steve
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apogee
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I heard that air traffic control dialogue the other day, and it gave me goosebumps- that pilot is hard-core, and has my greatest respect.
Once he reported the birds had shut down two engines, ATC tried to divert him to a smaller airstrip (with questionable capability for his craft), and his response was something to the effect of a tersely-worded 'Not possible'. The dialogue of rescue crews watching the plane head for the river was equally focussed, and they were on it before the plane hit the water.
Kudos all around. Nice that what could have been another horrible air tragedy has turned into such a heroic event.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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I heard he just signed a deal with Microsoft.
They are going to put out a special Hero Edition of Flight Simulator.
If you get it right the first try, they send you replica "Keys to the City".
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Said he could hear those honkers hitting the plane, as loud as thunder, then burnt bird smell comes in to the cabin, too much, thats a lot of goose sleeping bags that got wasted.
Those motors have been around forever, so no drama there, the high bypass fans are more sensitive to birds, the radius is so much larger, it takes a lot less to upset the balance.
if those birds would have went into a noisy 727 motor, they would have been chopped up like a Sears Trash Compactor and spit out the end, and you would never even know it, people were allowed to smoke on the 727.
They took apart one of the blades, turns out to be made out of recalled USHBA TI bolts.
Jus kiddin,
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Wow - When he says "we're going in the Hudson" it is PURE focus. In fact the whole thing - that pilot was on absolute survival mode.
I haven't listened to the tv show exerps yet but MAN!
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