A big shout out to Dan Ashley for the way he conducted the interview. He asked the right questions at the right time to keep the interview going, let the captain tell his story, and gave him plenty of time to tell it. So often interviewers inject themselves into the interview. This didn't happen here. Best wishes to Captain Sullenberger and everyone in the airline industry who do their best to keep us safe. We appreciate you.
What an intelligent, well spoken man, you were the right man for the job, experience, calm , and stoic, I know you said you are not a hero, but you are, not only to the passengers, but also to their family’s.
When I was 14 years old, I was raped at gunpoint. I screamed extremely loud and no one came to help me. I also made the decision that I would go and help people in need. This is what being a human in a human society means. I am a good bit younger than Sully and I have intervened in many situations, sometimes resulting in more problems for me than had I just walked away, but it feels good to do the right thing, even if everyone else in the world tells you that you should have walked away.
First, let me say how sorry I am that you had to go through such a horrific experience. :( I hope you have been able to avail yourself of some therapy/counseling in the time afterward to help process this trauma. Second, you should be very proud of your desire to help. Helping/intervening is scary, but it is those 1 in a million people that we look to in times of trouble. The heroes among us do not often have title, money, or position, they are - as is often said - ordinary people who do EXTRAORDINARY things. Best of luck:)
What a life well spent so far, and still with years to go. He uses his Creator-gifted skills for the good of his fellowmen. Your life is an inspiration in the midst the bad things unfolding in our nation now. Our country needs more of your kind sir.
The reason for calling it "Miracle on the Hudson" is that most water landings for commercial airlines end BADLY. The landing was as close to perfect given 3 minutes of warning as possible. Had one engine touched the water for a second sooner or at higher speed; the aircraft would have cartwheeled. Could another pilot have come close; possibly. Could even Sully do it again. Unlikely. Everything came together exceptionally well; the biggest factor being Sully's training and skill.
Christopher Smith. The reason why Sullenberger saved himself, where the crew and passengers gained positively out of that consequence, was because the aircraft had a lot of buoyancy in its nose, to counteract the drag of the engines. Many other pilots came in as good as Sully did and most pilots who had buoyancy in the nose of the aircraft did as well as the pilots in this incident. Those who came in as good as Sully, but did not have Buoyancy in the nose, did not fare well, but not because they were bad pilots, but they were not as fortunate as Sully, in having a plane with buoyancy in the nose. Sullenberger should have thanked all those designers and structural engineers who made that buoyancy in the nose which was not used in normal flying but held so well in the high-density water, and anyway it was always the engineering structure that continuously buffered and protected Sully's life during normal flying and not so normal flight/landings. Let us give credit where credit is due, and let us be not so emotional, as emotions always trump the truth. The prime duty of a pilot is to save his own life, and Sully would have done exactly the same activity had the aircraft been empty of passengers, including the absence of the co-pilot. Those passengers owe Sully's presence as much as Sully owes those passengers for their presence. Pilots need passengers as much as passengers need pilots and now with the COVID 19 canceling flights, without passengers, pilots and planes are being "Killed", see the last video with all Jumbo 747 and A 380 going to the Mojave Desert to die and pilots losing their job. So one must be careful about how human emotions work and how people are ready to use human emotions to gain out of an incident and become popular and to make people feel that they owe a lot to a pilot who was simply doing his duty to save his own life. The pilots should go and hug and kiss the structural engineers and do the same to all the passengers on that aircraft for being with him on that plane to generate his income and give those pilots a job to earn a living. It is not fair that the passengers are made to feel that it is them that owe their life to the pilot when it is the pilot who owes his life to the structural engineer and the passengers themselves. The COVID 19 proved it all as who is the most important, the presence of the passengers or the pilot?. Please do not be emotional but be philosophical and logical! ruclips.net/video/EKIRuBhoeQI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/2GUi3kqjQfU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/NBkzh0LKe5I/видео.html ruclips.net/video/LOCMy3wdENg/видео.html ruclips.net/video/95i7qyiL1xE/видео.html
@@ThomasCBond Reviewing this: it's not that rare for large aircraft to have two senior captains in the cabin crew. It's a career pinnacle for senior crew, and many copilots have captained somewhat smaller craft and are training to captain larger craft. They may also need to trade-off duties for long flights. It's relatively common in large aircraft.
@@carmelpule6954 Pardon, but you're insinuating that the landing itself is fairly straightforward. You're saying that it has been successfully attempted many times before, but ultimately their non-buoyant nose led to their downfall. Bullsh!t. I've been flying planes since I was 15. My dad owned an airport. He was a pilot, his dad was a pilot, and his dad's dad was a pilot. Landing a commercial passenger jet on the Hudson River is utterly astounding. Those other successful attempts, that probably don't exist, likely resulted in the aircraft breaking up into a thousand parts. This was a remarkable demonstration of piloting, but you want us to thank Boeing and their structural engineers? Are you a jackass?
One more thing, Sully and Jeff are Class personified. Not one time have either of them pointed fingers or cast Blame, they simply state the facts based on intelligent thought choosing their words with great care.
43:00 - I appreciate this part especially because of my passion for this as well. 52:46 - talks about what prepared him for this moment, and what drove him throughout his life. 55:40 - talking about making a difference in life 3:45 - talks about his first flight, and what sparked his passion. There is a lot of good stuff in here about the benefits of having a passion that drives you to work hard and be the best you can be at your job. 15:29 talks about controlling your emotions, how to deal with a crisis. 1:02:08 - trying to do the best you can, What is the ‘Highest Duty’.
GREAT JOB CAPT. PROUD OF YOU & YOUR CREW COCKPIT RESOURCE MANANGEMENT CRM IS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR AVIATION INDUSTRY I ATTENDED THE COURSE IN DENVER CO. 1990 THK YPU FOR BEING SUCH A PROFESSIONAL PILOT KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK CAPT. GREG K. ROBERTS B 727 B 737 B747 BAC 1-11 BAHAMAS
Every time I'm reminded of this story it sends shivers down my spine, and despite the fact that I'm British, I'm oddly overwhelmed with the feeling of being a proud American lol! I'm no pilot either, but I've had enough (roughly 500 hours) Flight Gear simulated flying hours to recognise this as a feat of magnificence merely regarding the precision required in keeping the wing tips level, though I'm sure much more had to be considered. I also have watched enough flight disaster investigation videos to suspect that simulations conversely have an element of forgiveness real flights do not seem to have. The fact that this doomed situation is something that now provides volumes of comedic moments for how surprisingly perfect it all played out and how nonchalant the pilots were about it, is testament to their ability as pilots.
This man will never admit how much the fly by wire system assisted him in keeping the aircraft perfectly stable. "Didn't have much of a factor" my ass.
In all the interviews, the film, etc. no one has mentioned the fact that the flight had just taken off and was full of fuel. Had the Capt. made the decision to return to one of the two airports and not succeeded, can you imagine the fire ball that would have confronted us in one of the most densely populated area in the world!!!!! The loss of life would have been unimaginable, not only the 155 on the plane but the fatalities and casualties on the ground.
I don't think ppl do realize that it was the Hudson River or 2 blocks of the Bronx. You're exactly right, jet fuel everywhere, explosions, it would've been catastrophic.
If you watch the new documentary on the Boeing crashes, you'll see how Sully was 100% right in predicting the tragic consequences of airlines focusing too much on financial bottom lines instead of safety. The deaths of hundreds in recent years are directly connected to the greed of higher-ups at Boeing.
Not only a great pilot he is actually really good at those interviews and media appearances. He’s almost like a professional actor instead of Tom Hanks he should’ve just played himself in that movie
It was a great pity that the pilot of VH-EDC was not treated correctly by the Australian aviation authorities when he saved 25 lives. Rod Lovell had just 46 seconds to ditch the DC3 in Botany Bay. Sydney when he had EFAT on the port engine and the starboard engine was not delivering full power due to bad maintenance. But that was 24/04/1994.
Much as I like hearing Sully and Jeff I didn't like this interviewer. Looking away, scratching his head, pulling his ear, picking his nose and looking at his watch...disrespectful
We are human beings and so we are very emotional, and it is well known that emotions trump all logic and truth! This incident is a situation where emotions trump logic and it is interesting to discuss the situation from an unemotional point of view where we have to respect all passengers and pilots and crew and others not present, for their actions and their behavior without letting anyone gain unwarranted publicity out of this incident. It is not true that a pilot is responsible for his passengers, as in this Hudson River case and many other cases the pilots would have acted and behaved in EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS and cargo. The pilot's first duty is to learn to save his own life, irrespective if he carries cargo or passengers and it is through that tacit applied psychology when everyone gains, including the pilot himself, the crew, the airline company, the passengers, the people owning the cargo, and the people living in their homes on the ground and the insurances who know that such incidents will happen. In this incident, while there was excellent piloting, but there were other issues that counted to save the life of pilots, crew, and passengers on board. This was the engineering structure which contained the buoyancy in the nose which when the engine under the wings dragged down into the water, the buoyancy in the nose lifted it up and that was the reason they all lived as they did. Many aircraft with buoyancy in the nose save the day and so the engineers who made the brilliant structure deserve some complements while the pilot deserves his share for doing his best not to operate the aircraft structure beyond its limit to save his own life! In the Hudson incident, it was the buoyancy in the nose of that aircraft that saved everyone on board. The buoyancy in the nose is not usually used when the aircraft is flying normally but it is the engineering structure that continuously saves pilots and crews and passengers on every normal flight and not so normal flights where the structure continuously buffers all the forces of flying. Many other pilots who came into land on water, just as perfect as Sullenberger, lost their lives because THEY HAD NO BUOYANCY IN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT. The designers and structural engineers who made that plane structure deserve a mention in the list of recommendations for any reunion or video commemorating this incident. ruclips.net/video/EKIRuBhoeQI/видео.html As far as passengers are concerned they need not feel that they owe anything to the pilots, as all the pilots did was their prime duty to save their own life when both engines stopped, and the fact that the aircraft was full of passengers, is totally irrelevant. The pilots would have behaved exactly the same had the aircraft been empty. It is so unfair for them to gain an extra public aura out of that emotional situation. The fact that there were passengers in the aircraft, it is the pilot who should thank them for their presence as they pay his salary and what is more important, the passengers, none of them behaved unruly like a terrorist who threatened to kill the pilot as happened many times in the past or through carrying a hand grenade with him in the aircraft or doing something that rouge electronics can easily do these days. Therefore the pilot should thank the passengers for their good behavior, where they did not threaten his life. It is interesting that there is now a situation where the PASSENGERS ACTUALLY KILLED THE PILOTS and this substantiates the reason why Sullenbrg should have gracefully thanked the passengers for their presence in that aircraft, where Sullenberger owed a lot to those passengers who flew with him. The lack of passengers due to the COVID 19 Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many aircraft companies declaring bankruptcy and many pilots are out of a job and many billions of dollars OF PUBLIC FUNDING are being asked as Charity to try and help pilots live through this era where they are no longer required and not even their larger aircraft which are being flown by LONELY PILOTS to the Mojave desert to their graveyards. Lack of passengers now killed the pilots and Sullenberger should have thanked the passengers for their presence too. After all, it was the presence of the passengers which made him so famous and now well know public figure even writing books about it. Without passengers, this case would have been totally forgotten like many others were. It is of psychological and social interest to record that, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger of the Hudson River incident, messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas who also had engineering problems with his aircraft, saying, " Congratulations for saving all your passengers and your crew!". Let us now hope, that if any of the lonely jobless pilots, now flying, on their own, all the EMPTY Jumbo Jets being retired to their graveyard in the Mojave desert, due to lack of passengers in the COVID 17 pandemic, and they had to meet the same " unfortunate engineering predicament" as both Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger would be a real gentleman and message the lonely pilots who flew EMPTY planes, with a message, simply saying, "CONGRATULATIONS FOR SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE," which is the real and absolute first duty of any pilot, and, an expression which Sullenberger tacitly did not include in his ' very thoughtful' public message to Kevin Sullivan, as it would not have sounded so well in the eardrums of the flying passengers. The well planned social blindness injected in a drugged human pilot to learn to wrap himself with, and operate his imperfect flying prosthesis, intoxicates even an experienced pilot not to heal and recover sanity in the social game we all play. We are all so proud to own and operate complex engineered prosthetic aids in diverse forms, to do what we cannot do on our own, and then to use human emotions to publicly gain out of it. It is well known that human emotions always trump the truth and many social professions thrive on that including pilots and engineers in the manner they advertise their wares and talents to the public. In conclusion in the reunion shown in this and another video, the invited members should have included, 1. The design and structural engineers who continuously save the pilot's life, be he flying with or without passengers. 2. The passengers who behaved so well controlled and did not threaten the pilot in any manner, as terrorists did in the past, and by their presence and fares they paid the pilot for his duties creating his job. 3.The pilot who being born without wings, and so handicapped when it comes to flying, he voluntarily trained so hard using public funds in the military, to learn how to operate that complex flying engineered prosthetic aid and he did it without straining the structure of that aircraft beyond its engineering limit which was his prime duty to save his life and as a result of that, others gain out his skills. Since as we are humans and full of emotions, for any reunion of the Hudson River incident to have been fair, the passengers should thank the pilot for saving their lives, but the pilot should also heartily thank the passengers and the structural engineers for saving the pilots' lives. There should be a lot of THREE WAY hugging and patting backs, in any of the reunions of the Hudson River incident, and not only one way where passengers hug pilots. We all need each other as we are all handicapped when it comes to flying without our own wings. All flying prosthetics we use are so imperfect, but we are glad engineers take the responsibility to make them where it seems, that when prosthetic aids in the form of simple aircraft flown with a stick, rods, and steam dials, 75% of incidents were due to pilot's errors but now that aircraft are almost autonomous, the errors are moving over to being engineering errors as happened in the Boeing 737 and many others. It seems that as long as we have human pilots and human engineers, the errors in flying will remain a constant, and we all must look after each other and the thank you and gratitudes will not be one-way traffic simply because human emotions always trump truth and logic. This is no different from people being made to show gratitude to a priest and pope who forgive their sins to enable them to go to heaven in the afterlife. Many professions dealing with the public, take advantage of people's emotions when the morale and spirit of other humans are well down. Those people who need to use engineered prosthetic aids to do what they cannot do on their own natural abilities, must be voluntarily willing and ready to work hard to learn how to use them for their own benefit, and engineers are more than happy to assist them, and it is so unfortunate that both operators and manufacturers of any prosthetics aid for humans and other creatures are so imperfect themselves. The videos submitted, show that limbless children using their walking engineered prosthetics, when going solo, they are just as happy as any pilot born without wings, going solo with his flying prosthetics wrapped around him. When flying a pilot must not claim any other higher responsibility, than saving his own life. for the sake of his own family and his children. Note that some women pilots and others do not need any passengers with them to gain international acclaim by claiming that they saved their lives, where the passengers are made to feel that they owe the pilot unlimited gratitude, but lone pilots need only good engineering contributions to make their flying prostheses to help pilots enjoy flying and save their own lives. ruclips.net/video/95i7qyiL1xE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/-Yr4ZIc47Pw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/KH8zPr-1AeA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/H-nr-l-UMkI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/PS-NH0VFDok/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sfd3BChgd8s/видео.html ruclips.net/video/xkwKqD9ylLo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ShaNzOWvWiU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/LOCMy3wdENg/видео.html
This person giving the interview is playing with his papers way to much while the captain is answering his questions. I find that very rude behavior. However, the questions and answers that were givien during the interview went really well. Very informative.
...seems like Adding some "Pontoons" to the Wings... wld Greatly Help an Aircraft to Any Plane tht Takes off or Lands near an Airport that Close to a Water Source??...
@@normie2716 Some Smaller Planes Already Have them Installed... but for Water Landings ONLY... ALL Aircraft going over Any Water Source Shld have them Installed... "Safety Over Profit!!!"...
This incident is a situation where emotions trump logic and it is interesting to discuss the situation from an unemotional point. It is not true that a pilot is responsible for his passengers, as in this Hudson River case and many other cases the pilots would have acted and behaved in EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS and cargo. The pilot's first duty is to learn to save his own life, irrespective if he carries cargo or passengers. In this incident, while there was excellent piloting, there were other issues that counted to save the life of pilots, crew, and passengers on board. This was the engineering structure that contained the buoyancy in the nose. Many aircraft with buoyancy in the nose save the day and so the engineers who made the brilliant structure deserve some complements while the pilot deserves his share. In the Hudson incident, it was the buoyancy in the nose of that aircraft that saved everyone on board. The buoyancy in the nose is not usually used when the aircraft is flying normally but it is the engineering structure that continuously saves pilots and crews and passengers on every normal flight and not so normal flights where the structure continuously buffers all the forces of flying. Many other pilots who came into land on water, just as perfect as Sullenberger, lost their lives because THEY HAD NO BUOYANCY IN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT. The designers and structural engineers who made that plane structure deserve a mention. ruclips.net/video/EKIRuBhoeQI/видео.html Passengers need not feel that they owe anything to the pilots, as all the pilots did was their prime duty to save their own life when both engines stopped, and the fact that the aircraft was full of passengers, is totally irrelevant. The pilots would have behaved exactly the same had the aircraft been empty. It is so unfair for them to gain an extra public aura out of that emotional situation. The fact that there were passengers in the aircraft, it is the pilot who should thank them for their presence as they pay his salary and what is more important, the passengers, none of them behaved unruly like a terrorist who threatened to kill the pilot as happened many times in the past or through carrying a hand grenade with him in the aircraft or doing something that rouge electronics can easily do these days. Therefore the pilot should thank the passengers for their good behavior, where they did not threaten his life. It is interesting that there is now a situation where the PASSENGERS ACTUALLY KILLED THE PILOTS and this substantiates the reason why Sullenbrg should have gracefully thanked the passengers for their presence in that aircraft, where Sullenberger owed a lot to those passengers who flew with him. The lack of passengers due to the COVID 19 Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many aircraft companies declaring bankruptcy and many pilots are out of a job and many billions of dollars OF PUBLIC FUNDING are being asked as Charity to try and help pilots live through this era where they are no longer required and not even their larger aircraft which are being flown by LONELY PILOTS to the Mojave desert to their graveyards. Lack of passengers now killed the pilots and Sullenberger should have thanked the passengers for their presence too. After all, it was the presence of the passengers which made him so famous and now well know public figure even writing books about it. Without passengers, this case would have been totally forgotten like many others were. It is of psychological and social interest to record that, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger of the Hudson River incident, messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas who also had engineering problems with his aircraft, saying, " Congratulations for saving all your passengers and your crew!". Let us now hope, that if any of the lonely jobless pilots, now flying, on their own, all the EMPTY Jumbo Jets being retired to their graveyard in the Mojave desert, due to lack of passengers in the COVID 17 pandemic, and they had to meet the same " unfortunate engineering predicament" as both Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger would be a real gentleman and message the lonely pilots who flew EMPTY planes, with a message, simply saying, "CONGRATULATIONS FOR SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE," which is the real and absolute first duty of any pilot, and, an expression which Sullenberger tacitly did not include in his ' very thoughtful' public message to Kevin Sullivan, as it would not have sounded so well in the eardrums of the flying passengers. The well planned social blindness injected in a drugged human pilot to learn to wrap himself with, and operate his imperfect flying prosthesis, intoxicates even an experienced pilot not to heal and recover sanity in the social game we all play. We are all so proud to own and operate complex engineered prosthetic aids in diverse forms, to do what we cannot do on our own, and then to use human emotions to publicly gain out of it. It is well known that human emotions always trump the truth and many social professions thrive on that including pilots, priests, and engineers in the manner they advertise their wares and talents to the public. A pilot's job involves him in a cruel social space where he prefers to look in preferable directions to suit himself. In conclusion in the reunion shown in this and another video, the invited members should have included, 1. The design and structural engineers who continuously save the pilot's life, be he flying with or without passengers. 2. The passengers who behaved so well controlled and did not threaten the pilot in any manner, as terrorists did in the past, and by their presence and fares they paid the pilot for his duties creating his job. 3.The pilot who being born without wings, and so handicapped when it comes to flying, he voluntarily trained so hard using public funds in the military, to learn how to operate that complex flying engineered prosthetic aid and he did it without straining the structure of that aircraft beyond its engineering limit which was his prime duty to save his life and as a result of that, others gain out his skills. Since as we are humans and full of emotions, for any reunion of the Hudson River incident to have been fair, the passengers should thank the pilot for saving their lives, but the pilot should also heartily thank the passengers and the structural engineers for saving the pilots' lives. There should be a lot of THREE WAY hugging and patting backs, in any of the reunions of the Hudson River incident, and not only one way where passengers hug pilots. We all need each other as we are all handicapped when it comes to flying without our own wings. All flying prosthetics we use are so imperfect, but we are glad engineers take the responsibility to make them where it seems, that when prosthetic aids in the form of simple aircraft flown with a stick, rods, and steam dials, 75% of incidents were due to pilot's errors but now that aircraft are almost autonomous, the errors are moving over to being engineering errors as happened in the Boeing 737 and many others. It seems that as long as we have human pilots and human engineers, the errors in flying will remain a constant, and we all must look after each other and the thank you and gratitudes will not be one-way traffic simply because human emotions always trump truth and logic. This is no different from people being made to show gratitude to a priest and pope who forgive their sins to enable them to go to heaven in the afterlife. Many professions dealing with the public, take advantage of people's emotions when the morale and spirit of other humans are well down. Those people who need to use engineered prosthetic aids to do what they cannot do on their own natural abilities, must be voluntarily willing and ready to work hard to learn how to use them for their own benefit, and engineers are more than happy to assist them, and it is so unfortunate that both operators and manufacturers of any prosthetics aid for humans and other creatures are so imperfect themselves. The videos submitted, show that limbless children using their walking engineered prosthetics, when going solo, they are just as happy as any pilot born without wings, going solo with his flying prosthetics wrapped around him. When flying a pilot must not claim any other higher responsibility, than saving his own life. for the sake of his own family and his children. ruclips.net/video/95i7qyiL1xE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/-Yr4ZIc47Pw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/KH8zPr-1AeA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/H-nr-l-UMkI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/PS-NH0VFDok/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sfd3BChgd8s/видео.html ruclips.net/video/xkwKqD9ylLo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ShaNzOWvWiU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/LOCMy3wdENg/видео.html
Sleep....Scheduling Hours of Service....Truckers have the same exact issues...it's never addressed in Real World time ..it Always looks good on paper it never works in practice
This Texan individualism is not working well for them during COVID-19. Houston medical professionals are being abused for asking people to stay home to avoid adding to the hospital crush there (hospitals are tightening admission criteria and sending patients as much as 50 miles away, and doctors have reported patients coding in the ER).
So Here’s The Thing . I’ve Flown A Few Times With People Who Let Me Try Flying There Plane . I Believe I Could Have Done The Same Thing. It’s Just Common Sense .
Sully gives himself credit for being able to perform despite the “startle factor”. since he understands how the startle factor can cause someone to make the wrong decisions how come he didn’t extend the benefit of knowing they were going to land in water to the flight crew or the passengers and warn them not to open the rear doors now the flight attendants are already supposed to know not to open the rear doors I don’t know if theSeat back pocket instructions warn the passengers not to open the rear doors but he should not be relying on the passengers having read memorized and remembering that little detail. I would not even rely on the flight attendants remembering that little detail. I would just tell the passengers directly instead of saying this is the captain brace for impact he should’ve said we’re making a water landing do not open the rear doors. now you can say that I have the benefit of hindsight and that is true, however you can’t say that Sully not mentioning these failures benefits the public because there’s gonna be another one of these water landings and this is a missed opportunity for everybody to learn don’t open the rear doors, and next time they may not be so lucky as Sully is. he is a lucky man. he made lots of screw ups and he knows it. that’s why he dodged giving a statement to the authorities and investigators for days until he had instigated his PR campaign. so basically he benefits to the tune of millions of dollars instead of taking the opportunity to inform everybody how they can save their life in the event of a water landing. I don’t know if all passenger jets are designed to be able to land in the water like the Airbus is and designed to be heavier in the back and therefore the rear door should not be opened. but why should I know that? because Sully took away the teaching opportunity for us all to learn tgat we never open the rear doors in a water landing or does it depend on whether it’s a plane made by Airbus? it’s designed for water landings and therefore heavier in the back for obvious reasons.
Mark Pope. I tend to agree with what you say, being an excellent pilot, Sullenberger made a brilliant landing in that water, but other engineering issues came about to save the pilot's life. It was the buoyancy in the nose that counteracted the dragging engines under the wing. If it was not for that buoyancy in the nose all would have died. I would say that the structural engineers who made that aircraft also deserve a mention in this incident for contributing to saving the pilot's life, both during normal flying and in this incident. Also, I feel that no pilot is responsible for the passengers and cargo, and the prime responsibility of a pilot is to save his own life for the benefit of his own family. The pilot would have DONE AND ACTED IN THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS AND CARGO! It is that tacit psychology that no pilot talks about what makes everyone else gain if the pilot saves his own life. Sully was rather unfair when he messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas, who also had engineering problems saying, "Congratulations for saving your passengers and your crew!" For an obvious psychological reason, he never said, " Kevin congratulations for saving your life!" as that would not go down well with the public and it would not publicly buttress him saving his own life in his incident. It is the passengers that made Sully famous after all as he could not say, "I saved my life" There is a lot of euphemism and hidden psychological tact in this flying game. One hopes that as all the Jumbos747 and A 380 which are being retired to the Mojave Desert, due to the lack of passengers that the COVID 19 pandemic brought about, then if any of those lonely pilots flying EMPTY PLANES had to meet what Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then Sullenberger would be a gentleman and message every lone pilot who saved his own life, simply saying, " Congratulations for saving your life!" There is a lot of emotional games going on and emotions always trump truth. Chesley Sullenberger like Kevin Sullivan and others are great brilliant pilots who learned so well how to save their own lives in the military and commercial flying with the flying prosthetic structure wrapped around them, which the engineers made for them. When they felt the brunt of the risky career they followed they both retired quickly. I feel it is unfair to make the passengers feel that they owe infinite gratitude to the pilot when all he did was his expected duty and work so hard to save his own life in the risky career he voluntarily chose. Though Sullenberger's wife and children were not present on that aircraft, I do not think for a moment that Sully would want to load his own wife and children to show him continuous infinite gratitude by hugging him all the time FOR SAVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR THEIR SAKE!!! Human Emotions are always thrown in flying activities as they are important means of how pilots raise their salary and to hide the fact that their prime duty is to just save their own lives for their own benefit and their own family and children. It is not right to expect passengers to show infinite gratitude to pilots who save a doomed plane as the pilot is only saving his own life and when a pilot thinks that his own life is not worth saving, the passengers always died with him as is shown below. Hence any pilot should not pump himself up in public by saying or insinuating that he saved the passengers when his prime motive in flying is to save his own life for the sake of his wife and children. Cases that show clearly that pilots are absolutely not responsible for passengers. 1. Tenerife, a Stupid Senior pilot who killed himself was responsible for the collision of two jumbo 747 jets. 2 Arthur Bud Holland of B-52 fame killed himself and his crew with his stupid flying, where ten commanders and the Air force secretary Sheila E. Widnall just did not reprimand him and encouraged him for his daring stunts and said, "What he did was what he was trained for!". ruclips.net/video/LgJl7b9bQH0/видео.html 3. Douglas Bader lost his legs due to his stupid flying and the RAF made an artificial hero out of him to attract other young pilots to go and fight the war. Religions have a habit of doing the same making Saints encourage the flock to fight and die for their Religions. 4. Lieutenant Colonel Ivo Nutarelli at Ramstein killed himself failed to lower his speed and killed many people. ruclips.net/video/mWajNdBs38o/видео.html 5. Volodymyr Toponar and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov killed many people at the Ukraine air show were arrested. ruclips.net/video/ZL697AGVDoM/видео.html 6.Chrsitian Marty had a habit of overloading his Concorde with fuel even in his final flight and that is not being very responsible. ruclips.net/video/fqOcYhzWUZY/видео.html 7. Marvin Faltiz, eccentric ............. ruclips.net/video/fbbMR91Hn_g/видео.html 8 Drunk pilots................ ruclips.net/video/uzJft_sd4jE/видео.html 9. Drunk pilots.................. ruclips.net/video/lKdZt6ImXVg/видео.html. 10 In the USA every month at least one pilot is arrested for drunkenness or other shirking his duty. 11 Pilot allowing son and daughter to sit in the pilot's seat flipping switches. 12 Drunk pilots............... ruclips.net/video/xpPtTU6Bw7M/видео.html 13 Doubtful pilots............ ruclips.net/video/PrJl5Qid-r4/видео.html Good pilots were as good as Sully but we never heard of them ............ ruclips.net/video/EKIRuBhoeQI/видео.html.. Good pilots who did not have buoyancy in the nose.............. ruclips.net/video/LOCMy3wdENg/видео.html Good pilots who came in as good as Sully but no buoyancy in the nose... ruclips.net/video/NBkzh0LKe5I/видео.html Good pilots who were as good as Sully................ ruclips.net/video/vKo4Eee7V3s/видео.html Shipmasters who were not responsible for their passengers, Titanic Edward John Smith as he obeyed orders to go at speed through iceberg areas. Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino deserted his ship. Responsibility for passengers is often mentioned and talked about, but not carried by many shipmasters and pilots as the truth is that they want to save their lives and would only lose it if they are stupid or they are shamed as Edward Smith of the Titanic.
Does anybody remember when Oakland A's slugger Dave Kingman was fined by the Canadian government for killing a pigeon in the Toronto Dome who got in the way of one of his home run balls? Imagine what they'll do to Sully for killing four Canada Geese.....
There's a reason Sully dodged giving an official and required statement to investigators for days. The air traffic controller gave his the same day despite being emotionally upset because for a long time he thought a plane he was controlling had crashed.
The “Miracle on the Hudson” was indeed a miracle when you consider the Fact that the Proper Procedures for an Emergency Water Landing (Ditching) of an Airliner were Not Fully Executed! - Two HUGE Mistakes were made in the "Miracle on the Hudson" Ditching: 1. Sully and his First Officer Failed to turn on the Ditch Switch before the ditching, and 2. The Air-Head Flight Attendant Doreen Failed to Speak Up and STOP the Panicked Female Passenger from opening one of the Rear Emergency Escape doors after the ditching (which were both below the water line - and Should Never Be Opened after a landing in water!) As a result of these Two HUGE Mistakes - the passenger cabin began to immediately take on a LOT of water - rapidly flooding the passenger cabin with (Ice Cold) water - making the aircraft sink into the water Much Faster than it should have! And if it wasn't for NY Waterways being right there ASAP - many of the passengers in the Rapidly Sinking Airliner would have Drowned or Died of Exposure in the Ice Cold Water! So in reality - given the Two HUGE Mistakes that were made - it really was a MIRACLE that everyone was able to get away from that situation Alive! A Very Special Thanks is owed to NY Waterways and the Key Role they played in covering for the Blunders of the Flight Crew - The operators of NY Waterways were the Real Saviors of the day!
If I remember my facts correctly, there was a breach in one of the bulkheads near the tail from the initial impact. This was the main cause of the plane sinking.
coulda, woulda, shoulda - none of that shit matters. They all lived. Stop acting like an emergency water landing is routine and straight forward. It's not. You're pathetic.
Is he being modest when he says he’s practically good at doing something that’s difficult to do well? Not really. I think modesty is overrated myself but I’m not the one claiming he’s modest. modesty would’ve been giving proper credit to the engineers who designed the Airbus to be able to safely landed in the water. this airbus safely landed in the water and no lives were lost in spite of Sully‘s failure to flip the ditch switch on that he’s supposed to do when landing in the water. now some people have excused that failure by claiming it’s at the bottom of the checklist. I don’t think we should give a lot of credit to a pilot who apparently never read the checklist before that day. Checklists are supposed to be reminders of things you already know when you’re an airline pilot, so that’s not a very good excuse. he had plenty of time to flip a switch and I would think if you will be landing in the water the ditch switch might be one that comes to mind. He remembered to flip the switch for the device that provides power when the engines had cut out and I understand the ditch switch is right beside it. he could’ve put them both at the same time basically so he screwed up. fine he’s human but we’re not treated it that way and he’s not being very forthright about screwup’s he referred to them in an interview early on in a very vague way but quickly said he had later decided that he done everything perfectly. No he was right the first time.
Had he hit the ditch switch when he turned on the APU, the APU might not have worked. There was a lot going on in 208 seconds. Do you really think you would have been able to do any better in the same circumstances?
Mark Pope, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. 1. You say "oh it's next to the APU switch", no it's not. It's on the overhead panel yes, but not next to the APU Master or Start switch. 2. At the time he started the APU, he had no idea that it was for sure to be a water landing, this was a decision made about a minute later when all other options were impossible. 3. The QRH (the checklist Jeff was working with) had so many items, the 'Ditching' pushbutton was about 35th on the list of things to do. There simply wasn't the time available as the checklist Jeff was working with at the time was designed for Dual Engine Failure at high altitude, not 3000ft. The QRH has since been amended to include at low altitude Dual Engine Fail and it's straight to the point and very good. 4. Pilots work with checklists, that enhances safety beyond measure. Pilots don't make stuff up believing it to be as part of a checklist. That would not be very safe. 5. It's no surprise it didn't pop into either of their minds, he was busy gliding the aircraft and Jeff was tenaciously trying to start at least one engine and support Sully. 6. Please don't belittle their achievement. It was an extremely difficult to do and they did it well under tough circumstances. 7. As an A320 Captain for my national carrier myself, I understand this situation fully and I appreciate the challenges of that day. Again, they did a great job.
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A big shout out to Dan Ashley for the way he conducted the interview. He asked the right questions at the right time to keep the interview going, let the captain tell his story, and gave him plenty of time to tell it. So often interviewers inject themselves into the interview. This didn't happen here. Best wishes to Captain Sullenberger and everyone in the airline industry who do their best to keep us safe. We appreciate you.
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He should have his own radio show, such a great voice, and wonderful speaking manner.
He comes across so unbelievably competent, ethical, and well spoken. Amazing guy.
What an intelligent, well spoken man, you were the right man for the job, experience, calm , and stoic, I know you said you are not a hero, but you are, not only to the passengers, but also to their family’s.
What an absolute Gent! THAT MAN IS BRILLIANT.
Sully still has his "no single engine failure" record going
What a great man, undoubtedly his innate temperament contributed hugely to his success
"Just after all these years of doing this job I never had the CARING BEATEN OUT OF ME". 53:05 Beautiful sentiment.
Not all heroes wear capes .. some wear mustache..
When I was 14 years old, I was raped at gunpoint. I screamed extremely loud and no one came to help me. I also made the decision that I would go and help people in need. This is what being a human in a human society means. I am a good bit younger than Sully and I have intervened in many situations, sometimes resulting in more problems for me than had I just walked away, but it feels good to do the right thing, even if everyone else in the world tells you that you should have walked away.
First, let me say how sorry I am that you had to go through such a horrific experience. :( I hope you have been able to avail yourself of some therapy/counseling in the time afterward to help process this trauma. Second, you should be very proud of your desire to help. Helping/intervening is scary, but it is those 1 in a million people that we look to in times of trouble. The heroes among us do not often have title, money, or position, they are - as is often said - ordinary people who do EXTRAORDINARY things. Best of luck:)
There are many ways to respond to horror. Yours showed the very best mankind has to offer. Congratulations. The world is better for people like you.
What a life well spent so far, and still with years to go. He uses his Creator-gifted skills for the good of his fellowmen. Your life is an inspiration in the midst the bad things unfolding in our nation now. Our country needs more of your kind sir.
the standing ovation was well deserved
amazing pilot. amazing problem solver. so much to learn from his experience for generations to come.
A fantastic interview. What a story. Looking in from Ireland 👌 🇮🇪
The reason for calling it "Miracle on the Hudson" is that most water landings for commercial airlines end BADLY. The landing was as close to perfect given 3 minutes of warning as possible. Had one engine touched the water for a second sooner or at higher speed; the aircraft would have cartwheeled. Could another pilot have come close; possibly. Could even Sully do it again. Unlikely. Everything came together exceptionally well; the biggest factor being Sully's training and skill.
Don't forget his co-pilot's 20,000+ hours. Having a former captain to your right is not typical.
Christopher Smith. The reason why Sullenberger saved himself, where the crew and passengers gained positively out of that consequence, was because the aircraft had a lot of buoyancy in its nose, to counteract the drag of the engines. Many other pilots came in as good as Sully did and most pilots who had buoyancy in the nose of the aircraft did as well as the pilots in this incident. Those who came in as good as Sully, but did not have Buoyancy in the nose, did not fare well, but not because they were bad pilots, but they were not as fortunate as Sully, in having a plane with buoyancy in the nose.
Sullenberger should have thanked all those designers and structural engineers who made that buoyancy in the nose which was not used in normal flying but held so well in the high-density water, and anyway it was always the engineering structure that continuously buffered and protected Sully's life during normal flying and not so normal flight/landings. Let us give credit where credit is due, and let us be not so emotional, as emotions always trump the truth. The prime duty of a pilot is to save his own life, and Sully would have done exactly the same activity had the aircraft been empty of passengers, including the absence of the co-pilot. Those passengers owe Sully's presence as much as Sully owes those passengers for their presence. Pilots need passengers as much as passengers need pilots and now with the COVID 19 canceling flights, without passengers, pilots and planes are being "Killed", see the last video with all Jumbo 747 and A 380 going to the Mojave Desert to die and pilots losing their job. So one must be careful about how human emotions work and how people are ready to use human emotions to gain out of an incident and become popular and to make people feel that they owe a lot to a pilot who was simply doing his duty to save his own life. The pilots should go and hug and kiss the structural engineers and do the same to all the passengers on that aircraft for being with him on that plane to generate his income and give those pilots a job to earn a living. It is not fair that the passengers are made to feel that it is them that owe their life to the pilot when it is the pilot who owes his life to the structural engineer and the passengers themselves. The COVID 19 proved it all as who is the most important, the presence of the passengers or the pilot?. Please do not be emotional but be philosophical and logical!
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@@ThomasCBond Reviewing this: it's not that rare for large aircraft to have two senior captains in the cabin crew. It's a career pinnacle for senior crew, and many copilots have captained somewhat smaller craft and are training to captain larger craft. They may also need to trade-off duties for long flights. It's relatively common in large aircraft.
@@carmelpule6954 Pardon, but you're insinuating that the landing itself is fairly straightforward. You're saying that it has been successfully attempted many times before, but ultimately their non-buoyant nose led to their downfall. Bullsh!t. I've been flying planes since I was 15. My dad owned an airport. He was a pilot, his dad was a pilot, and his dad's dad was a pilot. Landing a commercial passenger jet on the Hudson River is utterly astounding. Those other successful attempts, that probably don't exist, likely resulted in the aircraft breaking up into a thousand parts. This was a remarkable demonstration of piloting, but you want us to thank Boeing and their structural engineers? Are you a jackass?
@@carmelpule6954 that was just rude
thank you SO much for the record here
you know such people inspire everybody
A professionally trained pilot. You´re a hero Sully !!!
All airline pilots are professionally trained. No one garage band their way into airline flying...
@@urbanturbine I think the captain of Colgan Air Flight 3407 might be that one
@@urbanturbine What about Frank Abagnale?
One more thing, Sully and Jeff are Class personified. Not one time have either of them pointed fingers or cast Blame, they simply state the facts based on intelligent thought choosing their words with great care.
" do good and right wrongs and yet maybe my greatest contributions still lie ahead." An honorable man for sure.
Sully has such a great voice. This man should have a radio show!
What a guy
I admire this man! So eloquent, so sensible. What a priceless brilliant man!❤️
43:00 - I appreciate this part especially because of my passion for this as well.
52:46 - talks about what prepared him for this moment, and what drove him throughout his life.
55:40 - talking about making a difference in life
3:45 - talks about his first flight, and what sparked his passion. There is a lot of good stuff in here about the benefits of having a passion that drives you to work hard and be the best you can be at your job.
15:29 talks about controlling your emotions, how to deal with a crisis.
1:02:08 - trying to do the best you can, What is the ‘Highest Duty’.
😃 Thank you for the time stamps. Appreciated.
Outstanding comments from one great airline pilot! Great job all around.
US Air Force Academy graduate, F4 "Phantom" pilot, and professional in every way. A role model for all. A GOOD MAN and a GREAT AMERICAN!
GREAT JOB CAPT. PROUD OF YOU & YOUR CREW COCKPIT RESOURCE MANANGEMENT CRM IS VERY IMPORTANT IN OUR AVIATION INDUSTRY I ATTENDED THE COURSE IN DENVER CO. 1990 THK
YPU FOR BEING SUCH A PROFESSIONAL PILOT KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK CAPT.
GREG K. ROBERTS B 727 B 737 B747 BAC 1-11 BAHAMAS
Thanks for this! Best wishes from Melbourne :)
A real hero!!! Love you!!!
With pilots like Sully around, I spit on FAA's mandatory retirement.
Find you someone who looks at you the way this man looks at his wife! What a brilliant interview - great man!
WHAT A TRUE "GENTLEMAN AND HERO" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every time I'm reminded of this story it sends shivers down my spine, and despite the fact that I'm British, I'm oddly overwhelmed with the feeling of being a proud American lol! I'm no pilot either, but I've had enough (roughly 500 hours) Flight Gear simulated flying hours to recognise this as a feat of magnificence merely regarding the precision required in keeping the wing tips level, though I'm sure much more had to be considered. I also have watched enough flight disaster investigation videos to suspect that simulations conversely have an element of forgiveness real flights do not seem to have. The fact that this doomed situation is something that now provides volumes of comedic moments for how surprisingly perfect it all played out and how nonchalant the pilots were about it, is testament to their ability as pilots.
that is a great piece you put together. i am VERY IMPRESSED.
These people were amazing. It was the mustache. As stated before, with Great Mustache comes Great Responsibility.
Great interview and interviewer.
His mind has been very amazing! The logically and so efficient and effective! He will be a great teacher!
Wow Tom Hanks should really win playing this character!
We DO need another hero.
A man that we all want to become.......
This man will never admit how much the fly by wire system assisted him in keeping the aircraft perfectly stable. "Didn't have much of a factor" my ass.
THIS GUY IS A REAL LIFE HERO EXCELLENT
Amazing man
классный мужик! побольше бы таких!
He is great pilot😍😍
At 32:00 I can’t help but apply what he says to the Boeing 737Max8. I wonder wheat Capt Sully has to say about that.
What an absolute Gent!
What a DUDE!!....
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Stoicism
Why can't men try to be humble and wise as he is?
20:45 Sully's best comment:
"We hat never landed an airliner on the river before."
Great!!! :D
In all the interviews, the film, etc. no one has mentioned the fact that the flight had just taken off and was full of fuel. Had the Capt. made the decision to return to one of the two airports and not succeeded, can you imagine the fire ball that would have confronted us in one of the most densely populated area in the world!!!!! The loss of life would have been unimaginable, not only the 155 on the plane but the fatalities and casualties on the ground.
I don't think ppl do realize that it was the Hudson River or 2 blocks of the Bronx. You're exactly right, jet fuel everywhere, explosions, it would've been catastrophic.
If you watch the new documentary on the Boeing crashes, you'll see how Sully was 100% right in predicting the tragic consequences of airlines focusing too much on financial bottom lines instead of safety. The deaths of hundreds in recent years are directly connected to the greed of higher-ups at Boeing.
Not only a great pilot he is actually really good at those interviews and media appearances. He’s almost like a professional actor instead of Tom Hanks he should’ve just played himself in that movie
It was a great pity that the pilot of VH-EDC was not treated correctly by the Australian aviation authorities when he saved 25 lives. Rod Lovell had just 46 seconds to ditch the DC3 in Botany Bay. Sydney when he had EFAT on the port engine and the starboard engine was not delivering full power due to bad maintenance. But that was 24/04/1994.
3:26 Start here.
Thanks! 😉
A brilliant man with balls of steel!
Good man.
Joe Cool, move over, you have met your Match. Captain Sully is here...
Much as I like hearing Sully and Jeff I didn't like this interviewer. Looking away, scratching his head, pulling his ear, picking his nose and looking at his watch...disrespectful
1:04:44 - Tom Hanks XD
Is a gavel really necessary?
Tradition for club… yes, it is necessary.
no, it was obnoxious.
We are human beings and so we are very emotional, and it is well known that emotions trump all logic and truth! This incident is a situation where emotions trump logic and it is interesting to discuss the situation from an unemotional point of view where we have to respect all passengers and pilots and crew and others not present, for their actions and their behavior without letting anyone gain unwarranted publicity out of this incident.
It is not true that a pilot is responsible for his passengers, as in this Hudson River case and many other cases the pilots would have acted and behaved in EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS and cargo. The pilot's first duty is to learn to save his own life, irrespective if he carries cargo or passengers and it is through that tacit applied psychology when everyone gains, including the pilot himself, the crew, the airline company, the passengers, the people owning the cargo, and the people living in their homes on the ground and the insurances who know that such incidents will happen.
In this incident, while there was excellent piloting, but there were other issues that counted to save the life of pilots, crew, and passengers on board. This was the engineering structure which contained the buoyancy in the nose which when the engine under the wings dragged down into the water, the buoyancy in the nose lifted it up and that was the reason they all lived as they did. Many aircraft with buoyancy in the nose save the day and so the engineers who made the brilliant structure deserve some complements while the pilot deserves his share for doing his best not to operate the aircraft structure beyond its limit to save his own life!
In the Hudson incident, it was the buoyancy in the nose of that aircraft that saved everyone on board. The buoyancy in the nose is not usually used when the aircraft is flying normally but it is the engineering structure that continuously saves pilots and crews and passengers on every normal flight and not so normal flights where the structure continuously buffers all the forces of flying. Many other pilots who came into land on water, just as perfect as Sullenberger, lost their lives because THEY HAD NO BUOYANCY IN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT. The designers and structural engineers who made that plane structure deserve a mention in the list of recommendations for any reunion or video commemorating this incident.
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As far as passengers are concerned they need not feel that they owe anything to the pilots, as all the pilots did was their prime duty to save their own life when both engines stopped, and the fact that the aircraft was full of passengers, is totally irrelevant. The pilots would have behaved exactly the same had the aircraft been empty. It is so unfair for them to gain an extra public aura out of that emotional situation. The fact that there were passengers in the aircraft, it is the pilot who should thank them for their presence as they pay his salary and what is more important, the passengers, none of them behaved unruly like a terrorist who threatened to kill the pilot as happened many times in the past or through carrying a hand grenade with him in the aircraft or doing something that rouge electronics can easily do these days. Therefore the pilot should thank the passengers for their good behavior, where they did not threaten his life.
It is interesting that there is now a situation where the PASSENGERS ACTUALLY KILLED THE PILOTS and this substantiates the reason why Sullenbrg should have gracefully thanked the passengers for their presence in that aircraft, where Sullenberger owed a lot to those passengers who flew with him. The lack of passengers due to the COVID 19 Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many aircraft companies declaring bankruptcy and many pilots are out of a job and many billions of dollars OF PUBLIC FUNDING are being asked as Charity to try and help pilots live through this era where they are no longer required and not even their larger aircraft which are being flown by LONELY PILOTS to the Mojave desert to their graveyards. Lack of passengers now killed the pilots and Sullenberger should have thanked the passengers for their presence too. After all, it was the presence of the passengers which made him so famous and now well know public figure even writing books about it. Without passengers, this case would have been totally forgotten like many others were.
It is of psychological and social interest to record that, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger of the Hudson River incident, messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas who also had engineering problems with his aircraft, saying, " Congratulations for saving all your passengers and your crew!". Let us now hope, that if any of the lonely jobless pilots, now flying, on their own, all the EMPTY Jumbo Jets being retired to their graveyard in the Mojave desert, due to lack of passengers in the COVID 17 pandemic, and they had to meet the same " unfortunate engineering predicament" as both Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger would be a real gentleman and message the lonely pilots who flew EMPTY planes, with a message, simply saying, "CONGRATULATIONS FOR SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE," which is the real and absolute first duty of any pilot, and, an expression which Sullenberger tacitly did not include in his ' very thoughtful' public message to Kevin Sullivan, as it would not have sounded so well in the eardrums of the flying passengers. The well planned social blindness injected in a drugged human pilot to learn to wrap himself with, and operate his imperfect flying prosthesis, intoxicates even an experienced pilot not to heal and recover sanity in the social game we all play. We are all so proud to own and operate complex engineered prosthetic aids in diverse forms, to do what we cannot do on our own, and then to use human emotions to publicly gain out of it. It is well known that human emotions always trump the truth and many social professions thrive on that including pilots and engineers in the manner they advertise their wares and talents to the public.
In conclusion in the reunion shown in this and another video, the invited members should have included,
1. The design and structural engineers who continuously save the pilot's life, be he flying with or without passengers.
2. The passengers who behaved so well controlled and did not threaten the pilot in any manner, as terrorists did in the past, and by their presence and fares they paid the pilot for his duties creating his job.
3.The pilot who being born without wings, and so handicapped when it comes to flying, he voluntarily trained so hard using public funds in the military, to learn how to operate that complex flying engineered prosthetic aid and he did it without straining the structure of that aircraft beyond its engineering limit which was his prime duty to save his life and as a result of that, others gain out his skills.
Since as we are humans and full of emotions, for any reunion of the Hudson River incident to have been fair, the passengers should thank the pilot for saving their lives, but the pilot should also heartily thank the passengers and the structural engineers for saving the pilots' lives. There should be a lot of THREE WAY hugging and patting backs, in any of the reunions of the Hudson River incident, and not only one way where passengers hug pilots. We all need each other as we are all handicapped when it comes to flying without our own wings. All flying prosthetics we use are so imperfect, but we are glad engineers take the responsibility to make them where it seems, that when prosthetic aids in the form of simple aircraft flown with a stick, rods, and steam dials, 75% of incidents were due to pilot's errors but now that aircraft are almost autonomous, the errors are moving over to being engineering errors as happened in the Boeing 737 and many others. It seems that as long as we have human pilots and human engineers, the errors in flying will remain a constant, and we all must look after each other and the thank you and gratitudes will not be one-way traffic simply because human emotions always trump truth and logic. This is no different from people being made to show gratitude to a priest and pope who forgive their sins to enable them to go to heaven in the afterlife. Many professions dealing with the public, take advantage of people's emotions when the morale and spirit of other humans are well down.
Those people who need to use engineered prosthetic aids to do what they cannot do on their own natural abilities, must be voluntarily willing and ready to work hard to learn how to use them for their own benefit, and engineers are more than happy to assist them, and it is so unfortunate that both operators and manufacturers of any prosthetics aid for humans and other creatures are so imperfect themselves. The videos submitted, show that limbless children using their walking engineered prosthetics, when going solo, they are just as happy as any pilot born without wings, going solo with his flying prosthetics wrapped around him. When flying a pilot must not claim any other higher responsibility, than saving his own life. for the sake of his own family and his children.
Note that some women pilots and others do not need any passengers with them to gain international acclaim by claiming that they saved their lives, where the passengers are made to feel that they owe the pilot unlimited gratitude, but lone pilots need only good engineering contributions to make their flying prostheses to help pilots enjoy flying and save their own lives.
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This person giving the interview is playing with his papers way to much while the captain is answering his questions. I find that very rude behavior. However, the questions and answers that were givien during the interview went really well. Very informative.
...seems like Adding some "Pontoons" to the Wings... wld Greatly Help an Aircraft to Any Plane tht Takes off or Lands near an Airport that Close to a Water Source??...
I can't believe no one's thought of this. Just attach boats to the wings! What could go wrong?
@@normie2716 Some Smaller Planes Already Have them Installed... but for Water Landings ONLY... ALL Aircraft going over Any Water Source Shld have them Installed... "Safety Over Profit!!!"...
@@normie2716 Not "Boats"... "Pontoons"!!!...
This incident is a situation where emotions trump logic and it is interesting to discuss the situation from an unemotional point.
It is not true that a pilot is responsible for his passengers, as in this Hudson River case and many other cases the pilots would have acted and behaved in EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS and cargo. The pilot's first duty is to learn to save his own life, irrespective if he carries cargo or passengers. In this incident, while there was excellent piloting, there were other issues that counted to save the life of pilots, crew, and passengers on board. This was the engineering structure that contained the buoyancy in the nose. Many aircraft with buoyancy in the nose save the day and so the engineers who made the brilliant structure deserve some complements while the pilot deserves his share.
In the Hudson incident, it was the buoyancy in the nose of that aircraft that saved everyone on board. The buoyancy in the nose is not usually used when the aircraft is flying normally but it is the engineering structure that continuously saves pilots and crews and passengers on every normal flight and not so normal flights where the structure continuously buffers all the forces of flying. Many other pilots who came into land on water, just as perfect as Sullenberger, lost their lives because THEY HAD NO BUOYANCY IN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT. The designers and structural engineers who made that plane structure deserve a mention.
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Passengers need not feel that they owe anything to the pilots, as all the pilots did was their prime duty to save their own life when both engines stopped, and the fact that the aircraft was full of passengers, is totally irrelevant. The pilots would have behaved exactly the same had the aircraft been empty. It is so unfair for them to gain an extra public aura out of that emotional situation. The fact that there were passengers in the aircraft, it is the pilot who should thank them for their presence as they pay his salary and what is more important, the passengers, none of them behaved unruly like a terrorist who threatened to kill the pilot as happened many times in the past or through carrying a hand grenade with him in the aircraft or doing something that rouge electronics can easily do these days. Therefore the pilot should thank the passengers for their good behavior, where they did not threaten his life.
It is interesting that there is now a situation where the PASSENGERS ACTUALLY KILLED THE PILOTS and this substantiates the reason why Sullenbrg should have gracefully thanked the passengers for their presence in that aircraft, where Sullenberger owed a lot to those passengers who flew with him. The lack of passengers due to the COVID 19 Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many aircraft companies declaring bankruptcy and many pilots are out of a job and many billions of dollars OF PUBLIC FUNDING are being asked as Charity to try and help pilots live through this era where they are no longer required and not even their larger aircraft which are being flown by LONELY PILOTS to the Mojave desert to their graveyards. Lack of passengers now killed the pilots and Sullenberger should have thanked the passengers for their presence too. After all, it was the presence of the passengers which made him so famous and now well know public figure even writing books about it. Without passengers, this case would have been totally forgotten like many others were.
It is of psychological and social interest to record that, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger of the Hudson River incident, messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas who also had engineering problems with his aircraft, saying, " Congratulations for saving all your passengers and your crew!". Let us now hope, that if any of the lonely jobless pilots, now flying, on their own, all the EMPTY Jumbo Jets being retired to their graveyard in the Mojave desert, due to lack of passengers in the COVID 17 pandemic, and they had to meet the same " unfortunate engineering predicament" as both Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then, Chesley Burnett Sullenberger would be a real gentleman and message the lonely pilots who flew EMPTY planes, with a message, simply saying, "CONGRATULATIONS FOR SAVING YOUR OWN LIFE," which is the real and absolute first duty of any pilot, and, an expression which Sullenberger tacitly did not include in his ' very thoughtful' public message to Kevin Sullivan, as it would not have sounded so well in the eardrums of the flying passengers. The well planned social blindness injected in a drugged human pilot to learn to wrap himself with, and operate his imperfect flying prosthesis, intoxicates even an experienced pilot not to heal and recover sanity in the social game we all play. We are all so proud to own and operate complex engineered prosthetic aids in diverse forms, to do what we cannot do on our own, and then to use human emotions to publicly gain out of it. It is well known that human emotions always trump the truth and many social professions thrive on that including pilots, priests, and engineers in the manner they advertise their wares and talents to the public. A pilot's job involves him in a cruel social space where he prefers to look in preferable directions to suit himself.
In conclusion in the reunion shown in this and another video, the invited members should have included,
1. The design and structural engineers who continuously save the pilot's life, be he flying with or without passengers.
2. The passengers who behaved so well controlled and did not threaten the pilot in any manner, as terrorists did in the past, and by their presence and fares they paid the pilot for his duties creating his job.
3.The pilot who being born without wings, and so handicapped when it comes to flying, he voluntarily trained so hard using public funds in the military, to learn how to operate that complex flying engineered prosthetic aid and he did it without straining the structure of that aircraft beyond its engineering limit which was his prime duty to save his life and as a result of that, others gain out his skills.
Since as we are humans and full of emotions, for any reunion of the Hudson River incident to have been fair, the passengers should thank the pilot for saving their lives, but the pilot should also heartily thank the passengers and the structural engineers for saving the pilots' lives. There should be a lot of THREE WAY hugging and patting backs, in any of the reunions of the Hudson River incident, and not only one way where passengers hug pilots. We all need each other as we are all handicapped when it comes to flying without our own wings. All flying prosthetics we use are so imperfect, but we are glad engineers take the responsibility to make them where it seems, that when prosthetic aids in the form of simple aircraft flown with a stick, rods, and steam dials, 75% of incidents were due to pilot's errors but now that aircraft are almost autonomous, the errors are moving over to being engineering errors as happened in the Boeing 737 and many others. It seems that as long as we have human pilots and human engineers, the errors in flying will remain a constant, and we all must look after each other and the thank you and gratitudes will not be one-way traffic simply because human emotions always trump truth and logic. This is no different from people being made to show gratitude to a priest and pope who forgive their sins to enable them to go to heaven in the afterlife. Many professions dealing with the public, take advantage of people's emotions when the morale and spirit of other humans are well down.
Those people who need to use engineered prosthetic aids to do what they cannot do on their own natural abilities, must be voluntarily willing and ready to work hard to learn how to use them for their own benefit, and engineers are more than happy to assist them, and it is so unfortunate that both operators and manufacturers of any prosthetics aid for humans and other creatures are so imperfect themselves. The videos submitted, show that limbless children using their walking engineered prosthetics, when going solo, they are just as happy as any pilot born without wings, going solo with his flying prosthetics wrapped around him. When flying a pilot must not claim any other higher responsibility, than saving his own life. for the sake of his own family and his children.
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Sleep....Scheduling Hours of Service....Truckers have the same exact issues...it's never addressed in Real World time ..it Always looks good on paper it never works in practice
same problems in the rail roads
The last question about the movie. How was it not obvious that it'd be Tom Hanks!?
20:35 - 20:50 hahaha good one
Tom Hanks. Great man Sully
Dr. Of. Fly🍨👍👍👍👍👍
Chelsea, Chelsey or Chesley....what's the freaking name of this man?
chesley
Rather stick to Sully😂😂😂
This Texan individualism is not working well for them during COVID-19. Houston medical professionals are being abused for asking people to stay home to avoid adding to the hospital crush there (hospitals are tightening admission criteria and sending patients as much as 50 miles away, and doctors have reported patients coding in the ER).
So Here’s The Thing . I’ve Flown A Few Times With People Who Let Me Try Flying There Plane . I Believe I Could Have Done The Same Thing. It’s Just Common Sense .
T'ha arch Angel ,, from the head of State Francesca
Sully gives himself credit for being able to perform despite the “startle factor”. since he understands how the startle factor can cause someone to make the wrong decisions how come he didn’t extend the benefit of knowing they were going to land in water to the flight crew or the passengers and warn them not to open the rear doors now the flight attendants are already supposed to know not to open the rear doors I don’t know if theSeat back pocket instructions warn the passengers not to open the rear doors but he should not be relying on the passengers having read memorized and remembering that little detail. I would not even rely on the flight attendants remembering that little detail. I would just tell the passengers directly instead of saying this is the captain brace for impact he should’ve said we’re making a water landing do not open the rear doors. now you can say that I have the benefit of hindsight and that is true, however you can’t say that Sully not mentioning these failures benefits the public because there’s gonna be another one of these water landings and this is a missed opportunity for everybody to learn don’t open the rear doors, and next time they may not be so lucky as Sully is. he is a lucky man. he made lots of screw ups and he knows it. that’s why he dodged giving a statement to the authorities and investigators for days until he had instigated his PR campaign. so basically he benefits to the tune of millions of dollars instead of taking the opportunity to inform everybody how they can save their life in the event of a water landing. I don’t know if all passenger jets are designed to be able to land in the water like the Airbus is and designed to be heavier in the back and therefore the rear door should not be opened. but why should I know that? because Sully took away the teaching opportunity for us all to learn tgat we never open the rear doors in a water landing or does it depend on whether it’s a plane made by Airbus? it’s designed for water landings and therefore heavier in the back for obvious reasons.
Mark Pope are you on fucking crack you fool.
Mark Pope. I tend to agree with what you say, being an excellent pilot, Sullenberger made a brilliant landing in that water, but other engineering issues came about to save the pilot's life. It was the buoyancy in the nose that counteracted the dragging engines under the wing. If it was not for that buoyancy in the nose all would have died. I would say that the structural engineers who made that aircraft also deserve a mention in this incident for contributing to saving the pilot's life, both during normal flying and in this incident. Also, I feel that no pilot is responsible for the passengers and cargo, and the prime responsibility of a pilot is to save his own life for the benefit of his own family. The pilot would have DONE AND ACTED IN THE SAME MANNER HAD THE AIRCRAFT BEEN EMPTY OF PASSENGERS AND CARGO! It is that tacit psychology that no pilot talks about what makes everyone else gain if the pilot saves his own life. Sully was rather unfair when he messaged Kevin Sullivan of Qantas, who also had engineering problems saying, "Congratulations for saving your passengers and your crew!"
For an obvious psychological reason, he never said, " Kevin congratulations for saving your life!" as that would not go down well with the public and it would not publicly buttress him saving his own life in his incident. It is the passengers that made Sully famous after all as he could not say, "I saved my life" There is a lot of euphemism and hidden psychological tact in this flying game. One hopes that as all the Jumbos747 and A 380 which are being retired to the Mojave Desert, due to the lack of passengers that the COVID 19 pandemic brought about, then if any of those lonely pilots flying EMPTY PLANES had to meet what Sullenberger and Sullivan met, then Sullenberger would be a gentleman and message every lone pilot who saved his own life, simply saying, " Congratulations for saving your life!"
There is a lot of emotional games going on and emotions always trump truth. Chesley Sullenberger like Kevin Sullivan and others are great brilliant pilots who learned so well how to save their own lives in the military and commercial flying with the flying prosthetic structure wrapped around them, which the engineers made for them. When they felt the brunt of the risky career they followed they both retired quickly. I feel it is unfair to make the passengers feel that they owe infinite gratitude to the pilot when all he did was his expected duty and work so hard to save his own life in the risky career he voluntarily chose.
Though Sullenberger's wife and children were not present on that aircraft, I do not think for a moment that Sully would want to load his own wife and children to show him continuous infinite gratitude by hugging him all the time FOR SAVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR THEIR SAKE!!! Human Emotions are always thrown in flying activities as they are important means of how pilots raise their salary and to hide the fact that their prime duty is to just save their own lives for their own benefit and their own family and children. It is not right to expect passengers to show infinite gratitude to pilots who save a doomed plane as the pilot is only saving his own life and when a pilot thinks that his own life is not worth saving, the passengers always died with him as is shown below. Hence any pilot should not pump himself up in public by saying or insinuating that he saved the passengers when his prime motive in flying is to save his own life for the sake of his wife and children.
Cases that show clearly that pilots are absolutely not responsible for passengers.
1. Tenerife, a Stupid Senior pilot who killed himself was responsible for the collision of two jumbo 747 jets.
2 Arthur Bud Holland of B-52 fame killed himself and his crew with his stupid flying, where ten commanders and the Air force secretary Sheila E. Widnall just did not reprimand him and encouraged him for his daring stunts and said, "What he did was what he was trained for!". ruclips.net/video/LgJl7b9bQH0/видео.html
3. Douglas Bader lost his legs due to his stupid flying and the RAF made an artificial hero out of him to attract other young pilots to go and fight the war. Religions have a habit of doing the same making Saints encourage the flock to fight and die for their Religions.
4. Lieutenant Colonel Ivo Nutarelli at Ramstein killed himself failed to lower his speed and killed many people. ruclips.net/video/mWajNdBs38o/видео.html
5. Volodymyr Toponar and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov killed many people at the Ukraine air show were arrested. ruclips.net/video/ZL697AGVDoM/видео.html
6.Chrsitian Marty had a habit of overloading his Concorde with fuel even in his final flight and that is not being very responsible. ruclips.net/video/fqOcYhzWUZY/видео.html
7. Marvin Faltiz, eccentric ............. ruclips.net/video/fbbMR91Hn_g/видео.html
8 Drunk pilots................ ruclips.net/video/uzJft_sd4jE/видео.html
9. Drunk pilots.................. ruclips.net/video/lKdZt6ImXVg/видео.html.
10 In the USA every month at least one pilot is arrested for drunkenness or other shirking his duty.
11 Pilot allowing son and daughter to sit in the pilot's seat flipping switches.
12 Drunk pilots............... ruclips.net/video/xpPtTU6Bw7M/видео.html
13 Doubtful pilots............ ruclips.net/video/PrJl5Qid-r4/видео.html
Good pilots were as good as Sully but we never heard of them ............ ruclips.net/video/EKIRuBhoeQI/видео.html..
Good pilots who did not have buoyancy in the nose.............. ruclips.net/video/LOCMy3wdENg/видео.html
Good pilots who came in as good as Sully but no buoyancy in the nose... ruclips.net/video/NBkzh0LKe5I/видео.html
Good pilots who were as good as Sully................ ruclips.net/video/vKo4Eee7V3s/видео.html
Shipmasters who were not responsible for their passengers,
Titanic Edward John Smith as he obeyed orders to go at speed through iceberg areas.
Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino deserted his ship.
Responsibility for passengers is often mentioned and talked about, but not carried by many shipmasters and pilots as the truth is that they want to save their lives and would only lose it if they are stupid or they are shamed as Edward Smith of the Titanic.
what's not 2 love
Does anybody remember when Oakland A's slugger Dave Kingman was fined by the Canadian government for killing a pigeon in the Toronto Dome who got in the way of one of his home run balls? Imagine what they'll do to Sully for killing four Canada Geese.....
#geeselivesmatter
There's a reason Sully dodged giving an official and required statement to investigators for days. The air traffic controller gave his the same day despite being emotionally upset because for a long time he thought a plane he was controlling had crashed.
The person doing the interviewing. Is rude. Looking through his questions instead of listening to the answer’s. Looking at his watch . Horrible.
What wouldn’t this audience laugh at?
The “Miracle on the Hudson” was indeed a miracle when you consider the Fact that the Proper Procedures for an Emergency Water Landing (Ditching) of an Airliner were Not Fully Executed!
- Two HUGE Mistakes were made in the "Miracle on the Hudson" Ditching:
1. Sully and his First Officer Failed to turn on the Ditch Switch before the ditching, and
2. The Air-Head Flight Attendant Doreen Failed to Speak Up and STOP the Panicked Female Passenger from opening one of the Rear Emergency Escape doors after the ditching (which were both below the water line - and Should Never Be Opened after a landing in water!)
As a result of these Two HUGE Mistakes - the passenger cabin began to immediately take on a LOT of water - rapidly flooding the passenger cabin with (Ice Cold) water - making the aircraft sink into the water Much Faster than it should have!
And if it wasn't for NY Waterways being right there ASAP - many of the passengers in the Rapidly Sinking Airliner would have Drowned or Died of Exposure in the Ice Cold Water! So in reality - given the Two HUGE Mistakes that were made - it really was a MIRACLE that everyone was able to get away from that situation Alive! A Very Special Thanks is owed to NY Waterways and the Key Role they played in covering for the Blunders of the Flight Crew - The operators of NY Waterways were the Real Saviors of the day!
If I remember my facts correctly, there was a breach in one of the bulkheads near the tail from the initial impact. This was the main cause of the plane sinking.
There was 3 pages for Skiles to go over in the few minutes he had and the ditch switch was at the very end. He didn’t have time to get to it
coulda, woulda, shoulda - none of that shit matters. They all lived. Stop acting like an emergency water landing is routine and straight forward. It's not. You're pathetic.
Is he being modest when he says he’s practically good at doing something that’s difficult to do well? Not really. I think modesty is overrated myself but I’m not the one claiming he’s modest. modesty would’ve been giving proper credit to the engineers who designed the Airbus to be able to safely landed in the water. this airbus safely landed in the water and no lives were lost in spite of Sully‘s failure to flip the ditch switch on that he’s supposed to do when landing in the water. now some people have excused that failure by claiming it’s at the bottom of the checklist. I don’t think we should give a lot of credit to a pilot who apparently never read the checklist before that day. Checklists are supposed to be reminders of things you already know when you’re an airline pilot, so that’s not a very good excuse. he had plenty of time to flip a switch and I would think if you will be landing in the water the ditch switch might be one that comes to mind. He remembered to flip the switch for the device that provides power when the engines had cut out and I understand the ditch switch is right beside it. he could’ve put them both at the same time basically so he screwed up. fine he’s human but we’re not treated it that way and he’s not being very forthright about screwup’s he referred to them in an interview early on in a very vague way but quickly said he had later decided that he done everything perfectly. No he was right the first time.
Had he hit the ditch switch when he turned on the APU, the APU might not have worked. There was a lot going on in 208 seconds. Do you really think you would have been able to do any better in the same circumstances?
Mark Pope, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
1. You say "oh it's next to the APU switch", no it's not. It's on the overhead panel yes, but not next to the APU Master or Start switch.
2. At the time he started the APU, he had no idea that it was for sure to be a water landing, this was a decision made about a minute later when all other options were impossible.
3. The QRH (the checklist Jeff was working with) had so many items, the 'Ditching' pushbutton was about 35th on the list of things to do. There simply wasn't the time available as the checklist Jeff was working with at the time was designed for Dual Engine Failure at high altitude, not 3000ft. The QRH has since been amended to include at low altitude Dual Engine Fail and it's straight to the point and very good.
4. Pilots work with checklists, that enhances safety beyond measure. Pilots don't make stuff up believing it to be as part of a checklist. That would not be very safe.
5. It's no surprise it didn't pop into either of their minds, he was busy gliding the aircraft and Jeff was tenaciously trying to start at least one engine and support Sully.
6. Please don't belittle their achievement. It was an extremely difficult to do and they did it well under tough circumstances.
7. As an A320 Captain for my national carrier myself, I understand this situation fully and I appreciate the challenges of that day. Again, they did a great job.
@@babyflyer100 hitting the ditch switch...would that have messed up the APU being turned on?
He did do everything perfectly - they all lived. You're pathetic.