US Airways Flight 1549 Concepts

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

by William Langewiesche · 10 Nov 2009 · 175pp · 54,028 words

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its badges, but only as bureaucracies do. There were no foreign terrorists here. The geese were innocent birds. The captain was the very definition of a good citizen, a man named Chesley Sullenberger whose life until now had been so uneventful that many of his peers at US Airways had overlooked his presence

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Downtown hotel, near the site of the former World Trade Center. They started with Sullenberger’s copilot, Jeffrey Skiles, age forty-nine, a man with twenty thousand hours of flight time, who had briefly served as the captain of a smallish Fokker twin-jet but had essentially been relegated to the position

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a fresh Ph.D. in applied psychology from the University of Central Florida, with a specialization in Crew Resource Management. Sullenberger referred to her as “Dr. Wilson.” She referred to him as “Captain Sullenberger.” She asked him a few technical questions, but for the most part just threw him flowers. “How do you

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stands for “velocity lowest selectable.” There was a moment of silence. The Frenchman probed no further. He said, “Thank you, Captain.” Dr. Wilson echoed his gratitude. She said, “Thank you, Captain Sullenberger.” To Robert Sumwalt, she said, “Mr. Chairman, we have no more questions at this time.” It was the turn now for

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Authority’ portion of the Flight Operations Manual play into the actions on this flight?” Sullenberger answered as if he had been writing a book. He said, “The captain’s authority, or autonomy, the ability to make independent judgments within the framework of professional standards, is critical to aviation safety. It is

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going to get through this hearing and be done. Their front man said, “Good morning, Captain Sullenberger, but all of our questions have been answered by Captain Sullenberger, the technical panel, and the other party members. Thank you, sir.” Sullenberger said, “Thank you.” The engine manufacturer had no questions. US Airways had no questions. The

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m not sure.’ What did you mean by not being sure?” Sullenberger trod carefully here. He said, “I think there are a few situations that can occur where a captain is questioned. And again we must balance accountability with safety. The captain’s authority is a precious commodity that cannot be denigrated. It

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think it is that paying attention matters. That having awareness constantly matters. Continuing to build that mental model to build a team matters.” “Thank you. Captain Sullenberger, I have no further questions. I want to thank you very much for your testimony, for being here this morning, and for representing the piloting

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of goose formations. And nature is marvelous, of course. But about six miles north of LaGuardia, and at about the same time that Wajda switched US Airways Flight 1549 to New York Departure Control, the geese flew into the departure corridor from Runway 4. Immediately after takeoff, Flight 1549 swept past the city’s

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speaker for business groups (teamwork and resolve) and schools (excitement about aviation). It turned out that Captain Piché was quite a speaker. He returned to flying, however, because, putain, piloting is what he knew best. • Captain Sullenberger, by contrast, hardly ever swears. Furthermore, the closer he gets to airplanes, the more straitlaced he

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to lose from trying. Skiles switched off the right engine only. Reading from the checklist, he said, “Wait thirty seconds.” Sullenberger made his announcement to the cabin. He said, “This is the captain. Brace for impact.” The flight attendants started shouting, “Brace! Brace! Heads down! Stay down!” Because they could not see

Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives

by Christopher Bartlett · 11 Apr 2010 · 543pp · 143,135 words

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The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters

by Eric J. Johnson · 12 Oct 2021 · 362pp · 103,087 words

. . . . I like to tell our students we’re training them to be decision-makers who happen to know how to fly an airplane.”1 Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s decision about where to land the plane was made simply and quickly. There were only 208 seconds, just over three minutes, between the time

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, but it is important. If the designer has made the right plausible paths easy, like in the Airbus A320 cockpit, then we can, to use Captain Sullenberger’s term, load-shed. But things do not always turn out that well. Sometimes designers are naive about what plausible paths should be used. Sometimes

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moment. When we make a choice, we don’t always report a strongly held opinion; we partially invent that opinion at that time. Just as Captain Sullenberger faced too much information and needed to load-shed—to concentrate on specific parts of the problem—the respondents in the hamburger experiments had many

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much the products of hundreds of hours of simulation, used to identify good placement and design for controls and displays. Professional pilots, like our friend Captain Sullenberger, can spend hours flying a simulator of the Airbus A320 before qualifying to fly the real thing. A simulator models how the aircraft responds to

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, US Airways Flight 1549 Airbus A320–214, N106US Weehawken, New Jersey, January 15, 2009.” 5. See Langewiesche, “Anatomy of a Miracle”; National Transportation Safety Board, “Loss of Thrust in Both Engines after Encountering a Flock of Birds.” The figure and statistics about performance and transcripts come from the NTSB report. 6. In fact, Sullenberger thought

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25, 2013. National Transportation Safety Board. “Loss of Thrust in Both Engines After Encountering a Flock of Birds and Subsequent Ditching on the Hudson River, US Airways Flight 1549 Airbus A320–214, N106US Weehawken, New Jersey, January 15, 2009” (2010): 1–213. Netflix. “Netflix Quick Guide: How Does Netflix Decide What’s on Netflix

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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do

by Matthew Syed · 3 Nov 2015 · 410pp · 114,005 words

of Success I At 3:25 p.m. on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was given clearance to take off from runway 4 of New York’s LaGuardia Airport. It was a clear afternoon and up in the cockpit Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles ran through the checklists. They were looking forward

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get things right we will discover a little more about why we get things wrong. Sullenberger ultimately landed the plane, all 70 tons of it, on the Hudson River. It was a brilliantly judged maneuver. The captain was diligent in the aftermath, too. He walked through the cabin twice to insure that

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a simple but profound reason: the industry in which he operates had learned the lessons. It is both apt and revealing that Sullenberger, a modest and self-evidently decent man, has made exactly this point. In a television interview months after the miracle landing on the Hudson, he

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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell · 11 May 2015 · 409pp · 105,551 words

; twenty-four people suffered serious injuries. • • • Compare the tragedy of United Flight 173 to the story of US Airways Flight 1549—the plane that Captain Chesley Sullenberger ditched in the Hudson River in 2009. Shortly after the flight took off from LaGuardia Airport, a flock of Canada

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a firefight without wearing body armor. The SEAL team in Abbottabad had not planned for the helicopter crash, just as Captain Sullenberger’s crew had not planned for the bird strike, and the Carty-Caterson team had not planned for the marathon bombing

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also honesty: US Airways 1549 was saved not by one mind, but by the ability of the captain, the first officer, and the flight crew to come together

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The Eureka Factor

by John Kounios · 14 Apr 2015 · 262pp · 80,257 words

. The quick wits of experts can even save lives. On January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 took off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. While ascending, the plane struck a flock of birds. Captain Chesley (“Sully”) Sullenberger smelled burning—birds had been sucked into the engines. Then the engines went dead

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. Within thirty seconds, Captain Sullenberger concluded that the engines couldn’t be restarted. The plane’s altitude was three thousand feet

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1549, with its complement of 155 passengers and crew members, landed safely in the Hudson River. All were saved. Why did Captain Sullenberger succeed where virtually all pilots had previously failed? Sullenberger learned to fly at sixteen. When he enrolled in the U.S. Air Force Academy, he received glider training and became

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in this bank of experience: education and training. And on January 15 the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.” Captain Sullenberger didn’t have an aha moment. He thought within the box—a magnificent box that he had painstakingly constructed over the course of forty-plus

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Bent Larsen’s approach to playing chess, see query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E0DD1638F931A2575AC0A9669D8B63. Quick Think 1 The information about, and quotes from, Captain Chesley Sullenberger are derived from www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/Sullys-Tale.html/; www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-1549-a-routine-takeoff-turns-ugly/; and Wikipedia, s

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb · 16 Apr 2018 · 345pp · 75,660 words

customers. Commercial airline pilots also continue to improve from on-the-job experience. On January 15, 2009, when US Airways Flight 1549 was struck by a flock of Canada geese, shutting down all engine power, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger miraculously landed the plane on the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers. Most reporters attributed

QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance

by Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John · 7 Oct 2010 · 469pp · 97,582 words

. The most recent and spectacular example occurred in January 2009 when an Airbus A380, US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson River in New York. Shortly after take off, the plane hit a flock of geese and Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger III had to make a forced landing on the water. He did this perfectly, saving

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Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson · 14 Jul 2012 · 184pp · 53,625 words

of good news. First there was the hero narrative: Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who had indeed brilliantly navigated his plane into the river with great poise under unthinkable pressure. And then there was the quasi-magical rhetoric that quickly became attached to the event, the Miracle on the Hudson. Those were the two options. That plane floating

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safely in the Hudson could be explained only by superheroes or miracles. There was no denying Sullenberger’s achievement that day, but the fact is, he was supported by a

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, crucially, a triumph of collectively shared ideas, corporate innovation, state-funded research, and government regulation. To ignore those elements in telling the story of the Miracle on the Hudson is not to neglect part of the narrative for dramatic effect. It is to fundamentally misunderstand where progress comes from, and how we can create

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engine disintegrated. Neither one propelled shards of titanium into the fuselage; neither engine caught fire. The phrase “lucky break”—like the whole premise of a Miracle on the Hudson—distorts the true circumstances of the US Airways landing. We need a better phrase, something that conveys the idea of an event that seems lucky

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. It is an open question whether Sullenberger would have been able to land the plane safely without all that additional knowledge at his service. But fortunately for the passengers of flight 1549, they didn’t have to answer that question. — The popular response to the Miracle on the Hudson encapsulates just about everything that is

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cycle is ultimately as important as the physical matter that is transformed in implementing the solutions themselves. Yes, it was crucial to the passengers on US Airways flight 1549 that the plane’s engines had been forged via the staggering physical energy and immense financial expense of a jet engine production cycle. But it

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trigger a rapid response from the city’s health department. And during emergencies, callers help provide real-time insight into what’s really happening. After US Airways flight 1549 crash-landed on the Hudson, a few callers dialed 311 asking what they should do with hand luggage they’d retrieved from the river. The

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be found at http://boingboing.net/2009/01/14/for-once-news-about.html. William Langewiesche’s Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson gives a thorough account of the Airbus 320 design and its role in the Hudson landing. Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” appeared

Against All Enemies

by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep · 13 Jun 2011 · 640pp · 177,786 words

to return to the runway, because they would lose too much altitude to effect the turnaround. Case in point: On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley Sullenberger was in command of US Airways Flight 1549 en route from La Guardia to Charlotte. He had lifted off and flown through a flock of birds, resulting in the loss of