Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549
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Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549
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#2Nicely done! Long Live the NYTimes!
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#3Nicely done! Long Live the NYTimes!
I agree. It's a slick, easy-to-understand analysis of the crash.
It also shows quick thinking on the part of the pilot. If they hadn't decided to ditch the plane in the river instead of continuing to the airport, it probably would have come up short and crash landed in an urban area. A lot of people owe the flight crew their lives, not just the passengers.
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#4Pretty cool; but amateurs can do almost as well with Google maps and Google Earth:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-flight-of-...
Teterboro must have been really tempting, a successful ditching is anything but a sure thing, if one of the wings had caught the water before the other the plane would have started tumbling at over 100mph.
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#5It looks like the pilot decided to not take the chance to land on the small airport, as if he wanted to avoid the risk to crash into the city.
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#6I can't wait until someone gets the black box data and History Channel does an animation of the landing trajectory.
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#7Beautiful, but I can't believe they left out how the plane cleared GW bridge by 900 feet!
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#8Pretty cool; but amateurs can do almost as well with Google maps and Google Earth: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-flight-of-... Teterboro must have been really tempting, a successful ditching is anything but a sure thing, if one of the wings had caught the water before the other the plane would have started tumbling at over 100mph.
the pilot is said to be an experienced glider pilot, probably helped in this situation
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#9A common mistake by small plane pilots is to try and make a U-turn and glide back to the airport. It usually doesn't work since you lose so much altitude during the turns. This pilot seemed to do an amazing job of finding the best glide rate and not turning too much - and then somehow figuring out how to land the plane in the water.
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#10It looks like the pilot decided to not take the chance to land on the small airport, as if he wanted to avoid the risk to crash into the city.
That's a good point. With both engines out to provide reverse thrust and likely little if any emergency landing facilities at Teterboro, he probably made the right choice.