remember the air crash in the hudson

**John C S** · 5th February 2009, 21:30

Originally Posted by solorider

still a crash as it is also a collision,you dont have to total something or someone die to have a crash ,a crash is a form of collision and as the aircraft landed in a situation where it was not designed to it counts of a crash or collision

Most passenger jets that travel over water for long periods are capable of landing on water, as they carry extra liferafts etc for this eventuality. It takes exceptional skill to do it though!

Airports across the world have crashes everyday. They are controlled crashes otherwise known as safe landings!!

**solorider** · 5th February 2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by Ste

As Chuck Yeager said, 'any landing you can walk away from is a good landing'

Whether it crashed or landed on water (I prefer the landed on water tbh because it was a controlled event) I dare bet the people on it don't care what terminology others use.

to be honest a landing on water is the hardest to do and the most dangerous as it only needs a slight wave or breeze and the airplane flips

spoons · 6th February 2009, 00:29

I'm sure the passengers stood on the wing being rescued by the Manhattan Ferry didnt think it was a landing

Thank you for travelling with Hudson Airwaves, please swim carefully

**big rich** · 6th February 2009, 01:37

Originally Posted by spoons

I'm sure the passengers stood on the wing being rescued by the Manhattan Ferry didnt think it was a landing

Thank you for travelling with Hudson Airwaves, please swim carefully

lmfao

**j13hdb** · 6th February 2009, 03:23

Originally Posted by John C S

Top Pilot. He was a US air force pilot back in the 70's. A bit of a Top Gun character.

By the way, I don't wish to sound pedantic, but it was an emergency landing on water, not a crash.

A crash is when you total it and lose control and aircraft destroyed with lives lost!.

The aircraft may be f***ked, but everyone alive, aircraft in one piece, definitely a landing IMO.

I think having a plane with no power is going to be a crash if he can't make a runway no matter how you look at it. It's only the pilot's superb skill that it "landed" without breaking up- and a water landing is the hardest of them all. If it had had a poor pilot it would have broken up so would that have been a landing as well-just in bits?

**Ste** · 6th February 2009, 10:07

The pilot did a TV interview yesterday.

He'll probably get some sort of commendation now

**_ZS_** · 6th February 2009, 10:12

Originally Posted by Ste

He'll probably get some sort of commendation now

And ALL the trolley-dollies.

**Ste** · 6th February 2009, 10:30

In honesty I think he deserves it too. A lot more than some of the people who seem to extract them from their cereal box on a morning.

**SignumPhil** · 6th February 2009, 11:21

The calm voice is just part of the training. Any pilot that starts squeaking or yelling in a crisis won't be a pilot for long. Remember Apollo 13? "Houston, we have a problem" -which translates as, "We're 100,000 miles from home, our spacecraft has blown up, we think we're going to die and we're bricking it"
Not taking anything away from the guy, though -to get a big plane down on water in one piece is a hell of an achievement.

Phil