1549 LGA-CLT

[algflyr]

Excellent Job by all crew. Its amazing to me that New York has NO video of this. New York has the most cameras in this NATION, and no video of the amazing job done by the captain has surfaced.

I would bet a video will surface soon...

Their training paid off today for sure. Job well done!

As for the East/West thing - I don't think it belongs in this thread. I'm an East pilot and firmly believe that had this been a West crew -- the outcome would have been NO DIFFERENT...

 

[UAL_TECH]

Amazing... h34r:
The media in hooded coats and gloves interviewing a survivor in a T'shirt with soaked pants, from the Hudson, in January and no one cares...(well someone did eventually) :down:

Great job by the crew

B) xUT

 

[drifterreno]

Wolf Blitzer was pretty generous in his praise of the ENTIRE flight crew.

Frankly from everything I've seen there is plenty of people worthy of praise.

• Pilot
• F/O
• Flight Attnedants
• The Water Taxi Crews
• The Rescue Workers

Even the customers who didn't freak out and followed the safety professionals who guided them into the waiting arms of theire rescuers.

Everybody is alive because everybody did what they were supposed to do when they were supposed to do it.

I am beyond impressed the whole way 'round.

Piney you are soooo right!! AND the news reports I've been hearing have been praising EVERYONE.
I remember one time while flying over water my Dad was explaining to me about ditching a plane in water. He was saying he did a film about that for the AF and he said the most important thing was keeping the nose up, and if need be both the pilot and first officer would pull back at the same time--and if need be with the same stick--fighting to keep the nose up. Looks like that's what might have gone on in the front. Gee my Dad's been gone 3 years and he was 85 when he passed away. Sooo must have been around 1963 when he told me about that. Some things never change and some things you learn a long time ago come in handy later in life.
The flight attendants deserve more credit too. When I first started working at US the boys and I used to make it a point to listen to the FA announcement--we knew it by heart--and then read the card in the seat back--knew that by heart too. Now, everytime we all fly we are polite, listening, and yes still read the card. You never know what you might forget.
By the way, they're reporting a passanger broke 2 legs and no mention of the FA???
God Bless everyone involved--how about a ticker tape parade--they not only saved the passangers but more than likley people on the ground too if the river haden't been there.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

from flightaware.com:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE1549...A/KLGA/tracklog
03:26PM 40.80 -73.87 151 1800 New York TRACON
03:27PM 40.83 -73.87 174 2800 New York TRACON
03:27PM 40.86 -73.88 194 3200 New York Center
03:28PM 40.88 -73.90 202 2000 New York TRACON
03:28PM 40.86 -73.93 215 1600 New York Center
03:29PM 40.83 -73.95 194 1200 New York TRACON
03:29PM 40.82 -73.97 191 1300 New York Center
03:30PM 40.78 -74.00 189 400 New York TRACON
03:31PM 40.75 -74.02 153 300 New York TRACON

 

[drifterreno]

Amazing... h34r:
The media in hooded coats and gloves interviewing a survivor in a T'shirt with soaked pants, from the Hudson, in January and no one cares...(well someone did eventually) :down:

Great job by the crew

B) xUT

Your picture looks too much like a Canadian Goose. Could you please change it--maybe a Bald Eagle would be appropriate

 

[JoeDirt]

For the past 25 years my wife and I have always given the F/A our undivided attention when making their preflights. We have always looked them in the eyes and actually listened to what they were saying. We have always insisted our daughter do the same. We have also made a mental note in which direction the nearest exit was located and how many rows of seats were between us and that exit. Thank God we have never had to use that information. Thank you to each member of that crew and for a job well done. Thank you also to everyone else involved in the heroic effort that took place today. Hold your heads high for you have made us all proud to be a member of your airline "family". Thank you to those in NY that responded to the call. You too can hold your head high knowing you did your best and your best saved untold number of lives.

 

[JS]

wow, congrats to the crew for an amazing job

 

[SharoninSAT]

Great job by the crew and the responders

 

[Dog Wonder]

Congratulations to an experienced crew doing what experience teaches.

 

[kobe1]

I truely hope the company has treated this crew a little bit better than just a typical unscheduled overnight, and DH home tomorrow (or DH home tonight if they got out of there)

Well I at least hope the "A" didn;t have to call the supervisor and explain why the liquor money wasn't turned in on time!
Safety not selling cokes is the f/a job!

 

[Justme]

thoughts.....

1. harkens me back to the Taca 737 enroute to MSY that experienced a dual engine flame-out due to water ingestion...he was somewhere up in the mid teens if I remember correctly...couldn't make MSY, Lakefront, or Navy New Orleans....controller was vectoring him to the intercoastal waterway as that appeared to be the best last alternative, when he broke out at less than 400 feet he was on a left base to a large field at the Michoud facility bordered by two 50' levies....turned final, cleared the levy, and that thing stopped in less than 1000 feet in the wet grass, within a couple of weeks they flew it out....everyone agreed that the Captain saved lives, I can still remember seeing him on local TV surrounded by some of the passengers.....at the time, I believe that was the first successful dead stick landing by a transport category aircraft at an off-airport location.....If that's correct I would nominate today's flight as the second....

2. my hat is off to the training departments, both flight and inflight......leadership, check airmen, instructors, developers....you guys are top notch

3. it will take some number of days for all of us to get our minds around the number of lives and families that this skillful and well-trained crew of five affected in such a positve way.....

in summary, simply amazing

 

[MAAMARCH04]

This is an excellent example of why the flight crews earn their salary. What a fantastic Captain and F/O! The Flight Attendants performed their REAL jobs as the professionals they are!! This is what it is all about - safety and what to do in an emergency.
Congrats and hats off to the crew of 1549 for doing an excellent job!!

Nice!! Couldn't have said it any better.

 

[MAAMARCH04]

A fantastic job by the flight crew. It doesn't appear to have been mentioned yet, but based upon the radar track, it appears that just south of the GW Bridge the Captain also had to contend with General Aviation traffic. It appears separation was about 500ft vertical and maybe a few hundred feet horizontal.

Radar track is here:

http://www4.passur.com/lga.html

set the time to 15:25...take off was 1526; traffic was encountered at 15:29.

Amazing flying.

WOW!! That was spell-binding. Thanks.

 

[UtterlyUdder]

Are you sure of that? :down: Don't you remember the Delta dc9 that went in the drink and U ended up with it and it was nothing but trouble after that? Of course maybe recovered aircraft do better these days........

To Oldie......In my excitement at such a great feat performed today, I have to correct myself... ...that was a Northeast DC9 that went in off of Martha's Vineyard all those years ago. U still ended up with it. :down:

 

[hp_fa]

This entire event is absolutely unbelievable considering how many things went right. It will be very interesting to hear, or read, what both Captain Sullenberger and the F/O have to say in the days and weeks ahead, specifically just what were they thinking in the seconds they had to make a decision. For an example, did they know that touchdown spot was full of ferry traffic that could immediately jump into a rescue mode, or was that luck because they didn't think they could make a runway anywhere and were just keeping from killing folks on the ground? I can hardly wait to hear their stories and see the NTSB Report when it finally comes out.

Obviously the F/A's did their job well because everyone survived. But it was the flight deck that overcame incredible odds just to get the plane in one piece to where the F'A's could get the folks off.

Captain Sullenberger is, I suspect, the modern day Al Haynes.