The BEST Pilot Decisions EVER Made in an Emergency?!

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  @MentourPilot · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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• JO

  @johnrickard8512 · 1 year ago

  A lot of problems in the air could be avoided if birds would radio the tower even once.

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• OF

  @OfMoachAndMayhem · 1 year ago (edited)

  &quot;A flock of Canada Geese&quot; - To anyone familiar with Canadian waterfowl and aviation, that sounds exactly as if you had said &quot;A squadron of enemy heavy fighters&quot;.

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  @whaddyaa · 1 year ago (edited)

  I love how matter of fact Sully was with the controller 😂 &quot;unable, we&apos;ll be in the hudson&quot;

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  @crystalsoulslayer · 1 year ago

  I absolutely love that CFM responded to the TACA flight the way they did. They could&apos;ve been like &quot;Don&apos;t fly into a hurricane! Shame on you!! Warranty VOID!!!&quot; but they didn&apos;t. They probably made a huge hilarious machine to yeet ungodly amounts of hail into a running jet engine. And then they went &quot;Okay, the hurricane thing should be fixed now, sorry for the inconvenience&quot; and went back to firing chickens out of pneumatic cannons into giant titanium fans. Like you do.

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  @abrikosik33 · 1 year ago

  I am obsessed with the TACA story. It&apos;s not as well known as Sully, but the way the crew just calmly handles this crazy thunderstorm and Capt. Dardano just casually side slips into the smoothest landing possible with no engines always gets me.

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  @GoCoyote · 10 months ago

  The day an airline drops to one pilot in the cockpit will be the day I stop flying that airline.

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  @skyofserenity · 1 year ago

  There are not enough people talking about the flight where the windscreen literally came off and the pilot was hanging out of the plane??? Might be one of the most insane stories I’ve ever seen on this channel. The fact that the captain survived that, the fact that the cabin crew immediately went to help without concern for themselves and the fact that the first officer was able to land throughout all that… 😭

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  @nilsp9426 · 1 year ago

  Imagine sticking out of an airplane front window, held back only by your colleague, and live to tell the story. Not to mention that you will probably be the only person ever to experience this in human history. In a novel, this would be considered wild fiction and a bit over the top.

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  @diremirebee · 1 year ago

  Sully’s very flat “We’re gonna be in the Hudson.” Always cracks me up<br>Can just imagine the controller hearing that and sweating like mad

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  @ironcito1101 · 1 year ago

  I love the brevity and efficiency in ATC communications during Hudson River incident.<br><br>- Teterboro, La Guardia departure, got an emergency inbound.<br>- OK, go ahead.<br>- Cactus 1529 over the George Washington Bridge wants to go to the airport right now.<br>- He wants to go to our airport, check. Does he need assistance?<br>- Yes, it was a birdstrike. Can I get him in for runway 1?<br>- Runway 1, that&apos;s good.<br><br>Took 16 seconds for La Guardia to contact Teterboro, inform them about the situation, request a runway, get approval, and set Teterboro&apos;s emergency services in motion.

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  @SWFLParadiseDweller · 1 year ago

  Don&apos;t get me wrong, USAirways was an amazing feat in the Hudson River. &nbsp;I was an employee of USAirways for many years. &nbsp;The pilot of TACA, blind in one eye, that landed on a grassy peninsula was the best saved accident situation ever! &nbsp; TACA Captain was the best emergency landing, and he should have had a movie made with his incredible story.

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