Come on...fair play, I know this guy just did what he was probably trained to do, but what a pilot. to Land a Large Plane with no engines on a river, without serious injury or fatalities to the 155 passengers. :bow::bow::bow:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7832439.stm

Cor i bet there were a few brown trousers after that one!

What a guy. See we don't need a third runway at Heathrow, just get some decent pilots and they can land on the Thames.

how come the co-pilot never got a mention :confused:..the poor sod was up there with him

Yep he did good! Decades of experience :D

Congrats to him, and yea the poor co-pilot didn't get any mention, its a joint effort up there in the skies..

Hats off to the guys!! What a superb landing :bow:

I can't understand why someone hasn't come up with an idea to illiminate 'bird strike' on turbine/jet engines :confused:

I can't understand why someone hasn't come up with an idea to illiminate 'bird strike' on turbine/jet engines :confused:

 

Probably because you can't. Bit like trying to eliminate hail damage to cars. Not feasible. There's only so much you can do to protect a jet engine before it becomes inefficient. It's rare for a bird strike to bring down a plane (ie knock more than one engine out). The chances of it happening aren't there to bother trying to protect it. Only an issue on take-off and landing. Aeroplanes travel at a much higher altitude than birds.

it is quite amazing that an airbus ditched into the water with underwing engines, that when hitting the water could rip the pylon from the wing and tear the wing into shreds. he must have had some power to both engines to gently bring the aircraft to the water and ditch at the slowest speed for an airbus to have no rupture to the pylon/wing.

 

al.

 

i think joelyp can answer this, as he is more experienced in aviation than little ol' me!