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Emb170man
Pilot: Bird warnings from tower of little value - Yahoo! News
A cockpit voice recorder transcript released by the board showed Sullenberger and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles were admiring the view of the Hudson River less than minute before their plane struck the geese and lost thrust in both engines.
"What a view of the Hudson today," Sullenberger remarked.
"Yeah," Skiles responded.
After all the ****storm from Colgan and such, it would probably come as a shock to all of America that their hero, the mighty Capt Sully, broke sterile cockpit also. Wow...I'm suprised that those 7 words didn't cause him kill everyone onboard!!!! Stupid media. I'm so sick of their witch hunt.
He was just remarking as to the good visibility surrounding his eventual landing site. Very apropos thing to discuss in a sterile cockpit.
So, am I to understand that you're as happy and comfortable with the CVR transcript and airmanship of the Colgan crew as you are with that of Sully's flight?! Night and day.