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Who's flying this thing?
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 5 days ago
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Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 16:20 PST It's time to put to rest the idea that planes fly themselves...Maybe that's a tad over the top, but it's hard for me to argue. As I've expressed before, nobody does a story better than Langewiesche.
Tags: Patrick Smith William Langewiesche, Mr. Sullenberger, Missy Cummings, assistant professors, airbus a320, Renee Montagne, New York Times, Emily Rooney, Argentina, Buenos Aires, US Airways Flight, Airbus A320 family, Aircraft flight control systems, Emergency landing, Aviator, Aviation accidents and incidents, Chesley Sullenberger, Jet aircraft
Hero pilot expecting baby with TV star
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility THE hero pilot who saved the lives of his five passengers including a critically-injured woman is expecting a baby with his former girlfriend, TV favourite Simmone Jade McKinnon. Dominic James, the 33-year-old former Cleo Bachelor of the Year entrant...
Tags: Dominic James, Norfolk Island, captain dominic, Australia, Sydney, Air safety, Flight plan, Water landing, Flight planning, Pel-Air, Disaster Accident, Human Interest, Personal flotation device, US Airways Flight, Chesley Sullenberger
The Skimmer: William Langewiesche's Fly by Wire
Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson William Langewiesche Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 193 pages The Gist : It took just 211 seconds for Chesley Sullenberger to guide US Airways Flight 1549 to the safety of the Hudson River on a frigid January...
Tags: Hudson William Langewiesche Farrar, Chesley Sullenberger, Sully, Canada, Toronto, William Langewiesche, Langewiesche, Airbus A320 family, Airbus, US Airways, US Airways Flight
Hero pilot ditches plane off Norfolk Island
Melbourne :: Australia | 6 days ago
Credibility In the dark and facing a 1.5-metre swell, he brought the Westwind jet down and ditched in the sea...Photo: Cleo The ill woman was on a CareFlight medical evacuation flight from Apia in Samoa to Melbourne, operated by Pel-Air Aviation. The plane was scheduled...
Tags: pilot, refuelling, Norfolk Island, Western Samoa, Melbourne, Samoan, Pel-Air Aviation, careflight says, medical evacuation, plane ditched, Australia, Westwind, Pel-Air, Water landing, Chesley Sullenberger, Disaster Accident, Descent, Australasia, Samoa, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
Sullenberger Takes Issue With New Book
Berlin :: Germany | 7 days ago
Credibility Mr. Langewiesche may have a point about the automated wonders of the A320, but, if I have a choice, with no engine power, between a computer and a pilot with the experience and competence of Captain Sullenberger and his crew, I’ll take Sully’s bunch any...
Tags: automated systems, Sullenberger, Germany, Berlin, Aircraft flight control systems, Airbus A320 family, Airbus, Air France, American Airlines Flight 587, US Airways, Chesley Sullenberger, US Airways Flight, Disaster Accident
Everyday Leaders
Charleston :: SC :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility On a cold wintry day in January 2009, US Airways flight 1549 taxied down the runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport. The flight, bound for Charlotte, N.C., was a familiar flight for Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Within a matter of minutes after...
Tags: everyday leaders, Doug Dickerson Salem-News, Sullenberger, Charleston, Leadership, Everyday, Risk, Chesley Sullenberger, the United States, US Airways Flight
Pilot dies in WA crop dusting crash
Perth :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility Police say the man's light aircraft crashed while it was apparently cropdusting the property near Kojonup, about 250km south east of Perth, about 8.15 (WST) on Tuesday. The man's body was found at the scene and forensic police were investigating ahead...
Tags: Australia, Perth, Air safety, Broomehill Western Australia, Great Southern region of Western Australia, Kojonup Western Australia, Aviation accidents and incidents, Disaster Accident, A320, Airbus, Chesley Sullenberger, Langewiesche, Airbus A320 family
Jet hits birds, forced to turn back to Missouri
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Airport officials in Kansas City say a passenger jet struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff and returned to land safely...Saturday night bound for Denver when it hit the birds at an altitude of about 4,000 feet...Passengers said they saw flames...
Tags: Kansas City, William Langewiesche, Water landing, Airbus A320 family, Langewiesche, Emergency landing, US Airways, Chesley Sullenberger, US Airways Flight, Kansas City International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Bird strike, Aviation in New York City, Hudson River
Bookshelf | New York’s Terrain: Wild Spaces, Street Patterns and a Splashdown
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility The book is a glamorous celebration of the city’s unspoiled open spaces and a poignant reminder that while New Yorkers are consumed by congestion, tens of thousands of acres are occupied by parks, playgrounds, nature preserves, beaches and amusement areas,...
Tags: New York Times, New York City, Airbus, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Manhattan, Meyerowitz, Robert Neuwirth, Hospitality Recreation, Chesley Sullenberger, William Langewiesche, Langewiesche
Miracle of doomed U.S. Air 1549 reconstructed in 3D
New York City :: NY :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Airways jet that struck Canada geese and landed without serious casualties in the Hudson River puts viewers in the pilot's seat of a miracle of modern day aviation. The flight on Jan. 15 lasted only six minutes as U.S. Airways Flight 1549 lost most of...
Tags: U.S. Airways, Kas Osterbuhr, New York City, US Airways Flight, Water landing, Air traffic control, Airmanship, US Airways, the United States, Chesley Sullenberger, Disaster Accident
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