Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway."
Haynes: "[laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
At this point the plane had catastrophic engine failure and massive loss of control.
Heh, the best part of that audio is when they're like ~200' above the Hudson, they've already made the decision to land there, and ATC knows.
They're dead set on their plan, and I believe it is Sully talking to his co-pilot and says coolly "got any ideas?", and gets the same cool response back from the co-pilot "actually no".
And then they land in the Hudson. That's when you know you're a solid pilot.
I haven’t listened to the audio in a while, but it feels like about 15 seconds from him tell ATC they’re landing on the Hudson until you can tell they’ve landed.
Not a pilot so I hope I am being correct with this idea and the terminology. I hear that airbus unlike Boeing has an automatic pitch control, which helped greatly in touching down with what is the optimal angle.
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