lessons from a happy ending

but the increas popul Commercial Inflatable Jumpers Train of gees and other larg bird around airport is an ongo problemTh crisi wa precipit when shortli after takeoff the plane encount a flock of Canada geese. The 8-pound bird suck into the jet shut down the engines. Aircraft manufactur ar try to make their engin more resist to bird strikes..

2009,The occas wa the Nation Transport Safeti Board s report on the Jan. 15. crash landing. The report wa less clear-cut than the event itself, but onli becaus the sequenc of event wa a uniqu chain of coincidences.

the plane,Bi chance. an Airbu 320, wa equip for extend flight over water, although that wa not requir for it New York-to-Charlotte, N.C., route. The plane had evacu slide that doubl as rafts. Most of the passeng clamber out on the wings, but 64 had to find room in the rafts. Some of them would sure have di if thei had been forc into the 41-degre water.

and onli four of those had them properli fastenedSullenberg put the plane down on a part of the Hudson crisscross by ferri that were quickli abl to come to the rescue. The plane wa begin to sink and onli 33 passeng had their life vest on..

but onli if the decis had been made almost instantly. There wa no margin for error. Error would have meant the death of all aboard and an untold number on the ground if the plane had gone down in the dens popul neighborhood around the airportTh report did sai that Sullenberg and Skile could theoret have return to LaGuardia..