The six minute flight then glide of US Airways flight Cactus 1549 from La Guardia airport to splashdown in the Hudson River on January 15 this year was a rare and spectacular good news story when it comes to air crashes.
The release this week of Fly by Wire, the Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on [...]
Tag Archives: Airbus A320
‘Fly by Wire’ the book, and an incredible video
November 13, 2009 – 10:55 am
Solyent Green (the sci-fi flick for seniors) meets the Boeing 737
April 29, 2009 – 11:20 am
The Boeing 737 just became prettier and meaner at the same moment in Seattle today.
The ‘prettier’ bit is a new interior with fancy LED lights in the ceiling which will be delivered in new 737s from about now.
The ‘meaner’ parts, which the airline bean counters will also find very pretty, is a substantial package of [...]
How Airbus nearly killed 155 people according to an idiot
February 15, 2009 – 5:50 pm
There is a rather childish email going around about the alleged truth behind the Hudson River water parking incident, headed An opinion about the A320 from one unidentified pilot!
I didn’t know Sully the A320 pilot who landed in the Hudson River . I’ve seen him in the crew room and around the system [...]
Miracle in the Hudson River
January 16, 2009 – 9:21 am
The last major bird strike accident to a passenger flight was on 4 October, 1960, when an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Electra turbo prop struck a flock of seagulls on leaving Boston’s Logan Airport and crashed killing 62 out of the 72 people on board.
It was later found that the birds had stopped three of [...]
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