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Rick,
I’m not familiar enough with the Airbus systems to know if they had a complete hydro failure.
I kinda doubt it. The skill in that incident was staying calm.
The old saying is they pay us for 20 years of bordem and 2 min. of shear terror.
I’d say he earned his pay for day.
Even with the great job the pilots did, my hats off to flight attendents for getting all those people out in
such a short amount of time.
Regards,
JackIts amazing he did get some hydraulics back, a ram air turbine deploys automatically with a dual engine failure or the loss of AC Bus 1+2, but its not just the hydraulics its all the warnings and additional failures that he was assaulted with, while he kept a cool head and made some really quick life or death choices. I do fly the Airbus.
This man is a credit to his profession. My hats off to him.
Chris WogrinI’m not a pilot, and I don’t even play one on TV (I’m just a Mechanical Engineer who likes aviation and flies UA just so he can listen to Channel 9). Nonetheless, I’m impressed by what that flight crew pulled off. Only one chance to get that one right!
Still, when I read the accounts, part of me thinks, of course this ended well. We had:
– Two guys working together up front
– The cockpit crew doubtless had run this scenario in the sim at least once (is that safe to say, Chris?)
– A bit of luck never hurts (for example, the fairly calm surface of the river)
– The flight crew didn’t exactly want to die, either.And as for the cabin crew, folks think of them as glorified drink servers, but in the end they’re there to hustle people off the plane when it comes time to evac. By all accounts they did that very well.
So, hats off to those on duty at the time of this accident, but what makes me the most proud is that they kept clear heads and did their jobs. :clap:
Pretty rare to do dual engine out procedures, but you do still get dual buses failures and hydraulic failures, and all sorts of other things thrown at you in an sim. True its a team effort, but even with all the time I have in the sim, 13000hrs of flight time. The calm and team work and resourcefulness that they showed and excuted just amazes me.
It give me pause for thought that every time I advance the throttle I have to think what if! Incredible, it could have been so much worse. One hell of a pilot and crew!
Chris
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