Originally Posted by
Daysleeper
That was a film... it’s about as real as most Hollywood films where the USA captures the enigma machine, sinks the Bismarck or blows up the sodding guns of Navarone.
No. I think you’ll find it portrayed, maybe with a bit
of
artistic licence, the fact there was a belief in the investigation team that the aircraft could have returned to LGA or made TEB, rather than ditch in the Hudson. If my memory serves, the pilots union representing the crew raised the issue with regard to thinking time required to make a decision. After that, low and behold the sims are re-run and they vindicated (in the circumstances) the crews decisions that the only safe place to go was the Hudson.
Anyway, that’s off topic. I only used it as example to demostrate the humans need thinking time. Time that in some scenario’s will make a critical situation a fatal one.