Originally Posted by
Capt Kremin
The debate over whether pilots who save an aircraft in this fashion are heroes, is a little silly in my opinion.
A hero is someone who makes a conscious choice to put someone else's life ahead of their own.
Captain Sully and his crew were put in a critical situation by fate. Through exemplary skill by the cockpit crew, both of them; and a well trained and disciplined cabin crew who had the passengers out of the aircraft in very short order, everyone did what they were trained to do and all the passengers got out alive.
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I agree - and in the situation they were in doing the best for the SLF was also doing the best for themselves and vice versa.
I do have a couple of questions:
1) it looked pretty crowded on the wings. How full was the aircraft?
2) I only fly gliders, and each time I launch I have a launch failure plan. Does this happen with commercial aviation? (or indeed GA)