Words of Advice:

"Never Feel Sorry For Anyone Who Owns an Airplane."-- Tina Marie

"
If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

"
Flying the Airplane is More Important than Radioing Your Plight to a Person on the Ground
Who is Incapable of Understanding or Doing Anything About It.
" -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

Saturday, June 27, 2009

USAIR 1549

The NTSB animation. The upper left overlays the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. At the bottom are readouts for airspeed and altitude.



For the non-pilots, you may note that the transmissions from the airplane were both terse and very limited. Once they told LaGuardia Departure Control what they were going to do, they stopped talking to them, for there was nothing that the controllers could do for them.

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