Hudson Video

[Admin]

This is a great video in the news story:

 

http://www.recreationalflying.com/index.php?pageid=newsreader&news=http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/incredible-new-look-at-us-airways-flight-1549/

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Smooth as.......I like his use of the word "unable"....we always have that option as PIC.

 

 

[Thx1137]

It seems he was questioned about why he said "brace for impact" instead of "brace for water impact". He said:

 

"I tend to think that I wish I'd had more time to more fully apprise the flight attendants of the situation that we faced. I probably spent some amount of time -- I would guess I had maybe four or five seconds to decide to make the announcement and what I should say and I chose my words carefully. My highest priority, at that moment, was to avoid passenger impact injury. I didn't know at that moment how successful I would be in trading air speed for sink rate to cushion the touchdown, so my immediate concern, my highest priority, had to be to avoid passenger injury at landing, so I chose the word impact and brace to indicate that they needed to brace themselves to avoid impact injury.

 

I knew that the flight attendants would do their assessment prior to opening the doors and I wish I could've told them there was a water landing, but had I done that, they might've begun getting people to put on life vests and not being in the brace position at impact, so it was a balancing act for the situation that we faced and the time that we had available."