One more stop for US Airways Flight 1549

[Stinky The Clown]

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/06/miracle_plane_in_transit_to_ca.html

"Miracle" plane in transit to Carolinas Aviation Museum

US Airways Flight 1549, known from the "Miracle on the Hudson" where the Airbus was successfully landed in the Hudson River with no injuries two years ago, is on the road to Charlotte, NC, where it will be put on display in the Carolinas Aviation Museum.

A crowd of about 10 people gathered at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Supor Boulevard in Harrison, NJ to see the airplane - stripped of its wings and tail - make its way through downtown on a flat bed truck.

The plane was escorted by New Jersey State Police and other trucks from Joe Supor & Sons Trucking and Rigging, donning "oversize load" indicators (certainly an understatement.)

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[Drale]

1. Its a great story and all but

is it really museum worthy? Are people going to remember the "miracle on the Hudson" like they remember say the first flight, or the breaking of the sound barrier?

[DemoTex]

2. As a retired US Airways captain and a "FOS" (friend of Sully), I say "YES."

This is a local museum dedicated to Piedmont (my original airline) and its late merged versions. Piedmont and US Air merged in 1989, as did US Air and PSA. Sully came from PSA. Since Charlotte was a big Piedmont (and US Air, later) hub, lots of codgers like me will support that museum. I just sent them a big check as a memorial to a dear friend, who was also a Piedmont/USAir captain, who died in February.

[silverweb]

3. Dumb.

The plane is nothing special. The pilot was the "miracle."

"A crowd of about 10 people" is about all that fuselage will ever attract. What a stupid waste of energy/money.

[DemoTex]

4. You are obviously not an aviator.

And I might imagine that you, in 1930 or so, a few years after Lindberg's crossing (May 1927), would also have thrown the Ryan Monoplane "The Spirit of St. Louis" on the junk-heap.

I am a former airline captain for the same airline as Sully, but that does not matter. I am also a former ALPA (Air Line Pilots Association - AFL/CIO) airline accident investigator. That DOES matter. US Airways 1549 taught us a great deal. The fact that a Airbus can be handled like a glider by a glider pilot (Sully - glider guider - who also flew USAF F-4s) is extremely instructive to all Airbus 319/320/321 pilots world-wide, because IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN (and YOU might be onboard!). The hulk of 1549, which is not 1549 but just a hulk, reminds us.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Not the first time a glider pilot/airline captain has glided one down.

DT, I know that you know about this. We might have discussed this before. :hi:

The Gimli Glider
http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html

"The avoidance of disaster was credited to Capt. Pearson's "Knowledge of gliding"

[silverweb]

6. I apologize.

You're absolutely right. I'm not an aviator and I don't even like flying when I have to.

I shouldn't even be here tonight because I'm in a terrible frame of mind, and so I'll just say I'm sorry and go.

Apologies. Seriously.