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pilot a hero...

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Thursday, January 15. 2009
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#1 Timothy B. Dix on 01/15/09 at 06:21 PM
And don't forget the water taxi ferries, tugboat hands, EMS personel...Asolutely amazing!
#2 cats on 01/15/09 at 08:31 PM
And the pilots undergo so much training in order to handle a situation like this, one they hope will never occur.
So glad that this story turned out well.
#3 Wow! on 01/16/09 at 12:26 AM
Something else happened as well. According to a release from a FFA spokesperson he was told to land in N.J. and was closer than his landing in the hudson. There is question if some communications systems went out as well, b/c he should have never headed the way he did. It is a miracle that nobody died on this plane. He did a hell of a job landing it on the water for sure though.
#4 Anonymous on 01/16/09 at 11:55 AM
Perhaps he chose the Hudson because he was not confident he could make it to Teterboro & did not want to take out people on the ground.

I have flown close to a million miles as a passenger & always appreciate having the older pilots since they know how to deal with crazy, unpredictable events
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