. . . or amazing skill.
I'm guessing it's a little of both. According to the news, there has NEVER, repeat NEVER, EVER been a crash like this where everone walked away. 155 out of 155. 100%. Perfect score. Amazing!
Then there was the talking head on Fox news opining that it was easier to land a plane on cold water than on warm water. The cold, according to Mr. Journalism Major Perfect Hairdo, made the water much more dense, allowing the plane to slide rather than grab the water and break up.
Considering that water at 30F is only 0.19% more dense than water at 72F. That's 19-hundreths of a percent, folks. I'm sure that made a lot of difference . . . not!
Stick to journalism, my friend. Science ain't your domain. Really.
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I don't know about the water temp thing but gosh-darn that's one amazing "landing" for sure.
Good news, like this, needs fewer talking heads who really know nothing. Birdstrike is all too common; the unusual thing here is that it's birdstrike of a civilian aircraft. We used to have one a week, but we used to fly between 10-250' AGL. :)
The U.S. Navy calls it BASH. Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard.
It doesn't help that the tree huggers on our project teams keep trying to site storm water retention ponds near our airfield.
I can't imagine being anywhere near that cold water. They had such good luck that day. I'm glad it turned out so well.
That was an amazing landing. The pilot deserves a LOT of credit instead of analyzing why is wasn't so difficult.
Which guy was it on Fox?
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