Don
Not this black duck pal. They are still just aeroplanes. Forced landings are forced landings. I will just move a bit more dirt or water on contact.
Agreed. However, the amount of dirt you move may prove to be fatal. What if USAir had been in IMC when the birds hit? What if there was a low fog bank?
A37675
That wasn't the opinion of the pilot who dead sticked the Air Canada Boeing 767 (The Gimli Glider event).
I'll admit to not remembering the details of the Air Canada incident, but the Air Transat crew, for example, got lucky simply because of a reroute that took them closer to the Azores.
Of course, those pilots did a amazing jobs, but let's not pretend that chance/fate/supernatural powers didn't play a part.