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How a 4-Pound Bird Wrecks a 75-Ton Plane
Tweet Share on Facebook February 3, 2009 Comment (9)As we've all learned by now, a fairly small bird can cause devastating damage to a jetliner. While it's not official, it appears that US AIrways Flight 1549 crash landed on the Hudson River on January 15 after one or both engines sucked in birds and conked out, leaving the jet without power.
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How Sullenberger Really Saved US Airways Flight 1549
Tweet Share on Facebook February 3, 2009 Comment (67)When airplanes crash, it’s usually because a bunch of unexpected things go wrong all at once, or one after the other. Obviously something dramatic went wrong with US Airways Flight 1549, which lost power in both engines and crash-landed on the Hudson River on January 15. But a lot went right, too.
Capt. Chesley Sullenberger has earned plaudits for “heroism,” but that oversimplifies what it took to land the crippled Airbus A320 and get all 150 passengers off safely, before the plane sank. Here are some of the other factors that helped everybody aboard Flight 1549 survive:
