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From: BtB@BB.not.aaaaaaa
"Maxwell" <#$$9#@%%%.^^^> wrote in
news:ECbel.4464$k57.3040@newsfe09.iad:
>
> "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
> news:glb3rt$2dl$2@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>> Rich Ahrens wrote in news:4977f644$0$92352
>> $8046368a@newsreader.iphouse.net:
>>
>>> on 1/21/09 2:40 PM Flydive said the following:
>>>> The problem was multiple bird strikes, with most probably
>>>> catastrophic engine failure, I don't think you are going to try a
>>>> relight in that situation.
>>>
>>> Have you been following along at all? As early as last Saturday the
>>> NTSB was reporting that that is exactly what they were doing, based
>>> on interviews with the flight crew backed up by the cockpit
>>> recorder.
>>>
>>> From Saturday's NYT:
>>>
>>> “My aircraft,” he announced to his first officer, using the standard
>>> phrasing and protocol drilled into airline crews.
>>>
>>> “Your aircraft,” Mr. Skiles responded.
>>>
>>> With little thrust, and with the plane’s airspeed falling sharply,
>>> Captain Sullenberger lowered the nose to keep his plane from falling
>>> out of the sky. And he set his co-pilot to work at moving through a
>>> three-page checklist of procedures for restarting both the engines.
>>
>>
>> Well, WTF else woul you do? You're face with a probable catastrophic
>> ditching or maybe getting enough thrust to nurse an airplane to a
>> runway....
>>
>>
>> Bertie
>
> No, WTF, how the hell would you know?
Because I fly airplanes like that for a living Maxie, how abotu you?
Bertie
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