View Single Post
Old 02-21-2009, 11:57 PM
  #12  
forumname
Gets Weekends Off
 
forumname's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Feb 2009
Position: I am the Stig
Posts: 281
Default

Originally Posted by captjns View Post
it just happened to be that it was two pilots, in two separate incidents, one named Haynes, and the other Sullenberger that saved the day.
Opinions will vary, but I believe it was more that just "two pilots". BOTH cockpits/cabins had very competent people in them, regardless of which seat/position they were occupying.

Both cockpit/cabin crews did outstanding jobs.

If you research Sioux City a little more, there were A LOT of factors that helped reduced the amount of fatalities. Just like the Hudson situation, there are a lot of things that were in their favor that day.

Had some of those factors not been there, they could have ended up worse than they did.
forumname is offline