Miracle Or Tragedy On The Hudson?

Chesley Sullenberger was a pilot for Pacific Southwest airlines for twenty nine years before the Hudson River crash. He was departing from LaGuardia Airport when the plane collided with a flock of Canada Geese, causing the engines to fail. With lots of training and quick reflexes, he was able to turn the plane around and make a controlled water landing on the Hudson River, and saved all one hundred and fifty five passengers on board. He then became a hero and instant celebrity for the act and retired a year later to become an international speaker on airline safety. After thirty years as a commercial pilot, he concentrated on running his safety consulting business, Safety Reliability Methods Inc., which he founded in 2007.

American Airlines flight 1420 crashed in Little Rock, Arkansas. The crash killed 11 people, after running off the runway and impacting an approach lighting structure. The causes of the crash are still being investigated but the likely causes include the plane touching down 2000 feet passed the runway threshold, the rapidly deteriorating weather, and a fatigued flight crew.

On September 11, 2001, four different planes were hijacked by terrorists. Two of them headed for the Twin Towers, the other headed for the Pentagon and the other nobody really knows for sure. The two that were headed for the Twin Towers, sadly made it there and crashed into both of them, they collapsed. The one headed toward the Pentagon also made it there. But the other plane didn’t make it to wherever it was supposed to be going, because of some brave passengers trying to take control of the plane and crashing it into a field, sacrificing their selves to save everyone else. (9/11 Mystery: What Was Flight 93 's Target?)

“Against the Odds” is an informative text by Pearson Realize about how Sully Sullenberger faced a potential crash with 150 passengers on board when geese hit the plane and made the engines fail. Sully kept calm for the whole experience and got everyone to safety, while also keeping the plane intact. The selection states, “The plane could either land in LaGuardia or land in Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Sullenberger knew the situation was too dire for the plane to stay in the air long enough for either plan to be successful… He’d ditch the plane in the Hudson River - despite the fact that passenger jets are not built to land on water.” (pgs. 446-447). This quote explains that instead of listening to air traffic, he thought of his own way and it succeeded. Another challenge was to get everyone to safety. Most of the passengers were out of the plane, but Sullenberger had to be sure they were all out. So he “...walked the length of the cabin twice, calling ‘Is anyone

In this short essay, the author will critically review Gerald M. Stern's The Buffalo Creek Disaster in terms of critiquing the author's thesis, supporting arguments, supporting evidence and authority, style, and content. It will also place the work in the context of the larger debate about the relationship between law and business. It is the position of this author that Mr. Sterns' position is correct and this position will be supported in the essay.

On September 19, 2008 at 11:53 pm eastern standard daylight time, a chartered Bombardier Learjet Model 60, N999LJ, owned by Inter Travel and Services, Inc., and operated by Global Exec Aviation, overran runway 11 during a RTO at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, South Carolina. The aircraft crashed and burned after the crew was unable to stop the aircraft before departing the runway. The captain, the first officer, and two passengers were killed; two other passengers were seriously injured. The chartered passenger flight was headed to Van Nuys, California. The flight was ready for departure just prior to midnight. After analysis of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript, it was revealed that the flight crew received clearance instructions from the CAE ground controller to taxi from the northeast fixed-base operator’s (FBO) parking ramp to runway 11. After a short conversation with the first officer about which way to turn, the captain, who was the pilot flying, turned the aircraft left onto taxiway U. The controller provided a corrected taxi clearance after detecting

Before reading the blog I was aware I would be reading raw information so whatever the author puts on his blog may not be what really happened at the airport. The author acknowledges this in the beginning of his post. As written in his blog:

Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger also had to make due with his only resource: The Hudson River. “Against the Odds,” by Pearson Realize, is an informative article explaining what occurred on flight 1549 of January 15, 2009. Merely 5 minutes into the flight a flock of Canadian Geese flew into both turbines causing serious engine failure. Captain Sullenberger had two options. He could either try to land on the runway risking various buildings and civilians, or he could attempt to crash into the Hudson.

By reading “The day the world came to town by Jim Defede”, I learned a lot about the history of 9/11. The most interesting thing I learned was that the 9/11 affected Airport Security and that all of the U.S airports were closed. Not only that, I have also learned how it affected the people who were coming to the U.S. According to the text, a man talks about the reasons why 9/11 was historic for Gander, “One of them was that the airspace over the United States was shut down and every plane in the sky was ordered land immediately at the nearest airport” (5). I never really thought about the people who were on planes during 9/11. The pilots did have a lot trouble when they found out they had to land somewhere else. I have also learned that

Although, the captain and first officer were aware of the crosswind condition, the crew did not investigate the MD-80 safe crosswind conditions. This was the first judgement decision which escalated unsafe conditions during landing sequence. Next, the weather distractions pressed another disastrous judgement decision. The captain failed to communicate a request for forty degree flap position. The captain was focused on flying the aircraft but failed to converse the desired flight condition of the aircraft and the first officer was hindered in notification of the error. Although the flap corrections were made, the aircraft was off the runway centerline. Furthermore, the captain and first officer were confused on position of the aircraft in reference to the runway centerline. At this stage of the landing sequence with the planes flap down, the flight control response would have lethargic. Additionally, flight instruments detailed the aircraft was off centerline. Under the previous stated condition, Flight 1420 safest course of action was to perform the missed approach procedures. Unfortunately, the captain continued with landing

This was a wise decision as landing in a tailwind is one of the most precarious situations a pilot can face, but the added workload of developing a new landing pattern from scratch added one more layer of stress and pressure to the issues that had been mounting since Dallas Ft. Worth. The alternate runway pattern added an additional ten minutes to the pilot’s 2 hour delay. The pilot workload exponentially increased as the aircraft entered in a new pattern and began to have great difficulty establishing a visual fix on the airport. When asked if the aircraft was going to shoot an ILS approach or continue on visual the captain elected to remain on a visual approach. Afterward it can be guessed that Captain Buschman didn’t expect the storm to intensify even further as he neared the field. The aircrew lost sight of the field as the storm worsened and was given approach vectors by ATC. The flight deck voice recorder indicated there was confusion between the pilots and there was a disparity between what one pilot was observing as opposed to the other. (NTSB 2001) As the aircraft finally was lined up final approach the runway visibility dropped to less than 1 mile with a runway visual range of 3000 feet. The crew had a brief disagreement on whether to continue the landing and elected to attempt it. On approach wind were gusting at 45 knots. (NTSB

People say “No one knows for sure what happened aboard that airplane, but we do know countless lives were saved when that plane was diverted from its intended target.” This shows the heroic act that he did and saving all of their

In an attempt to find the lost flight, a Martin Mariner PBM-5 flying boat was sent to search for the mission squadron. The flying boat left Fort Lauderdale Airport at 7:27 p.m. (Cusack, 16). At 7:30 p.m. the plane's radio failed, and flight disappeared forever.

Emergency landing was impossible under the conditions they were in. Moreover, it was a direct flight, and making a stop along the way to another state was also not a viable option.

Because Sully is based off an event that involves an airplane, the safety personnel had to get involved to investigate the cause if the accident. Due to the fact that the National Transportation Safety Board is made up of many highly intelligent people, there was bound to give way to issues that arrived between the captain who landed the plane, Captain Sully, and the National Transportation Safety Administration know as NTSB for short. The NTSB was in charge of investigating the event because it deals with transportation. Matthew Lickona and Scott Marks are both movie critics who work for the San Diego Reader. Both authors