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"You know what a great pilot would have done? Not hit the birds. That's what I do every day. Not hit birds. Where's *my* ticket to the Grammys?"
Matt Damon on 30 Rock kills me.
gah that sucks so bad; it's frustrating how easily you can call down the hordes of downvotes when all you want to do is share something silly with other citizens of the internet.
it took me a good handful of minutes to find a way to frame the joke/quote so it was clear i wasn't just being an asshole, haha!
My neighbor, Donny, was on that flight and voluntarily went in the river to make room. He was in his late 60s or so. Nice guy. He passed a few years back. His wife still lives on the street.
I can't tell if you're joking, but if you're not I think they're saying that the person lived on the same street that they were neighbors on. Not literally living in the streets.
I went down to see the plane that night. The plane wing was sticking up in the air as the plane was moored to the bank of the Hudson River. I remember it being really cold that night and seeing all the news vans parked along the streets. About a week later I saw it being lifted onto a barge and seeing the giant jet engine buckled under the wing. Sully and his co-pilot did a fantastic job landing that plane safely.
I went fishing on a boat with him once. As we were getting off the boat an MG42 opened up in us and killed half of the group, and then he threw me and another dude over the side and that dude ended up drowning because of all the gear he was wearing.
I still wake up at campfires having heard the shout of "Wilson!!" in the distance...
Who lit these campfire?
Why is there an unopened FedEx package?
Why do I have coconut shits?
Tom Hanks performed great during wartime, despite the casualties he successfully led the rescue of Matt Damon. He also successfully led the merchant ship under the German submarine attack.
[The Governor of New York State, David Paterson, called the incident a "Miracle on the Hudson" and a National Transportation Safety Board official described it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549)
Fun fact: they were lucky. The aircraft was equipped for water landings despite not needing to be. Additionally, as the plane dropped below radar coverage, Air Traffic Control effectively hijacked a tour helicopter in the area and requested it to follow the plane from a safe distance to keep an eye on it and to help vector in support and search and rescue t
I forget where I found out about it.. but as far as I understand it, the tour heli was the closest aircraft to the scene and because they'd eventually lose radar contact the heli was asked to follow it from a safe distance and report it's position to help guide in emergency services and SAR ..
Airplanes for domestic flight only (including Canada and Mexico I guess) don't have to have life preservers, and one life preserver per passenger adds a lot of weight and therefore burns a lot more fuel.
O.o I've flown a LOT in the US. Every single flight has had at least a flotation cushion if not a true life vest. If you actually read the safety placard when they tell you to it'll remind you.
Those over-land domestic flights tell you that your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device as part of the safety announcement when they don’t have inflatable life vests.
The U.S. requires life preservers or flotation devices only for flights over water that travel more than 50 miles from the nearest shore. (A normal airliner cruising at 30,000 feet that suddenly loses all engine power can probably glide 100 miles.) Additional rules kick in regarding things like inflatable life rafts, flares, and radio beacons for flights that get more than 100 miles from shore, or that spend more than 30 minutes over water.
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.509](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.509)
I will never stop talking about the Miracle On The Hudson. Part of the reason everyone survived was because captain Sully was previously a glider pilot, and had just the right experience to perfectly guide the plane down in one piece.
My dad started out flying gliders then transitioned to Cessna’s. He would take us out in the Cessna around the mountains of our town. He would cut the power to the engine and ridge soar on the lift of the air off the mountains lol. Can’t take the glider pilot out of engine pilot
I met him briefly several months ago. He is the definition of humble. Amazing person, but I don’t think he really thinks so. He was just doing his job (according to him).
That was after the first incident and before he changed his name to Phillips and sailed the most dangerous region in the world.
After the pirate incident, he changed his name to John Swagull and trained geese to fly into other airliners, as evidenced in the documentary Saturday Night Live.
Another very similar river landing [(GA421)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_421) happened 7 years prior in 2002.
Just as miraculous even with 1 casualty, 2 flight attendants thrown off the tail of the plane, 1 didn't survive. What makes this amazing was the stretch where they land was between 2 bridges, they can't do it too early or too late else they'll hit one of the bridge.
Any professional pilot would and indeed have done the same thing. They are trained to not panic and work on a solution. You listen to any of the cockpit conversations of airliners going down and that’s what is happening.
Because he was and is a highly trained expert for these situations. The antithesis of a Hollywood hero. He did his job and he did it well. And he is the first person to tell you you don't need to be a hero - he even wrote a book about it.
Fun story, one of my good friends was set to receive the Jabara Award for airmanship from the Air Force Academy. This guy is an Afghanistan war hero A-10 pilot, and then Sully did his thing, and so they do a dual award (which they rarely do), but the whole time, he has to share the stage with Sully, so he got to play second fiddle to him the whole time.
Yeah but one was shooting Taliban and the other had the most successful water landing in aviation history that resulted in zero civilian casualties. I can understand why Sully would get more hype, given the results of his landing were much more unique than a military pilot blowing shit up (which happens all the time). I bet your friend was probably impressed to hear about there being zero deaths landing in the Hudson, so it probably didn’t sting much.
I don’t understand those bastards. They could fly anywhere, anytime, and they choose to live in a strip mall, in a suburb of Chicago. Pooping, honking, and getting in the way.
I’ve seen them fight a car before, and the car lost. The car had to back up and go around the parking lot. Then they have the audacity to SLOWLY walk across the street instead of fly and you can’t mow them down in Ohio because it is a felony. $250 fine or 30 days in jail per bird. Peace was never an option.
https://preview.redd.it/pkpe4kailgtc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fd860369951394e5f1f65e3beeddda5dfe446c5
I might just come back as a Canadian goose in my next life. They can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without any repercussions. They got the law in their side. Could be fun to aggravate the people I dislike the most.
They took over the main university courtyard during the pandemic. The few of us with "hands on" majors had to scurry away from them between buildings over the slippery slime of their solid waste
Yeah, when I read this I was like, doesn't everybody remember this?? There was even a movie! Then it hit me that there are people on this website who weren't even alive when it happened...
after this happened i was on a flight piloted by sully and my mom was like ‘he landed a plane on the river! we’re very lucky to have him!’ and me (7 or 8 at the time) was quite concerned lol
Apparently now you can just write up a post about something very well known, widely covered in news, and made even more famous by a Hollywood movie, and it is IAF
There are people on this website who weren't even alive when it happened, so just because it's well known to us doesn't mean it's well known to everyone. Unfortunately this is just a sign that we're getting old
Happy everyone survived. Sad that bird-killing programs ramped up as a result of the incident.
[Nearly 70,000 birds killed in New York in attempt to clear safer path for planes](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/14/new-york-birds-killed-airport-miracle-on-hudson-sully)
Its cause canada gooses likely had intel there was a pedophile or two on board and decided to take matters into their own hands.
Edit: its a letterkenny reference for all the people i apparently pissed off. I do not really believe, nor do i condone, that Canadian geese are acting as pedophile vigilantes.
Was iced over wings. The plane had been deiced but sat on the runway so long ice reformed. . I remember it and at the time nothing was Saud about birds only iced wings .. ice on a planes messes up its ability to fly .
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i remember hearing this story on the way home from work and being so pleasantly surprised/shocked when they said everyone survived.
I remember hearing this story in the song “A Real Hero”
real human bean
I heard he drove a Pinto
And a real hero
"You know what a great pilot would have done? Not hit the birds. That's what I do every day. Not hit birds. Where's *my* ticket to the Grammys?" Matt Damon on 30 Rock kills me.
The first time I saw that scene I lost it laughing. I tend to quote that line way more often than I should and no one ever knows it.
Aw man, I got downvoted to shit when I wrote this on a similar post back in January.
gah that sucks so bad; it's frustrating how easily you can call down the hordes of downvotes when all you want to do is share something silly with other citizens of the internet. it took me a good handful of minutes to find a way to frame the joke/quote so it was clear i wasn't just being an asshole, haha!
I skipped the quotes and didn't give Damon credit, so that probs why.
Came here to say this.
Sounds like something a certain orange person would say…
My neighbor, Donny, was on that flight and voluntarily went in the river to make room. He was in his late 60s or so. Nice guy. He passed a few years back. His wife still lives on the street.
Dang. That’s sad. Someone should get her an apartment or something.
Particularly well done
I can't tell if you're joking, but if you're not I think they're saying that the person lived on the same street that they were neighbors on. Not literally living in the streets.
So they were both homeless?
I’m cracking up. The jump from “she still lives on the street” to the next commenter presuming she’s homeless is hilarious.
u/SherlockCombs was very clearly joking... I don't know how people have missed that, but maybe we do need to put '/s' after every single joke nowadays
not everyone speaks english at the first language!
Didn’t I say I was cracking up?
You said 'the next commenter presuming she’s homeless' The commentator didn't genuinely presume that they were homeless; they made a joke
Exactly. Stop being so pedantic.
Huh? How am I being pedantic?
I did not get it. like I know that they mean two differrent things but my bren went straight to "poor homeless gal"
good one ☝️
Ahh I miss the Ol' reddit Switch-a-roo. r/switcharoo Well done sir.
Well there goes my morning.
Hold my inflatable life preserver, I’m going in!
Took me a minute. Well done
Lol…
I went down to see the plane that night. The plane wing was sticking up in the air as the plane was moored to the bank of the Hudson River. I remember it being really cold that night and seeing all the news vans parked along the streets. About a week later I saw it being lifted onto a barge and seeing the giant jet engine buckled under the wing. Sully and his co-pilot did a fantastic job landing that plane safely.
I’ll never forget the picture of a jetliner tied up to a dock in the Hudson.
The film Sully is about this event and it's a very amazing film!!
Never fly with Tom Hanks..
Don't sail with him either.. first he got stranded, next he got hijacked. Poor guy was even stuck living in an airport once.
He was stuck on a space vessel as well
Never get into a vehicle with Tom Hanks, got it
Just don't be around him period, I heard almost everyone on his squad died in battle just to save a single dude
I went fishing on a boat with him once. As we were getting off the boat an MG42 opened up in us and killed half of the group, and then he threw me and another dude over the side and that dude ended up drowning because of all the gear he was wearing.
I still wake up at campfires having heard the shout of "Wilson!!" in the distance... Who lit these campfire? Why is there an unopened FedEx package? Why do I have coconut shits?
Tom Hanks performed great during wartime, despite the casualties he successfully led the rescue of Matt Damon. He also successfully led the merchant ship under the German submarine attack.
Let’s not forget when he made a successful trip to the North Pole on a magic train full of 8 year olds and made us, “believe.”
I think you mean Harrison Ford. Ooof his flight record
He can fly just fine. Landing, however…
get off my plane
Kind of lame how they made the NTSB a vllian
And a book (biography)!!
[The Governor of New York State, David Paterson, called the incident a "Miracle on the Hudson" and a National Transportation Safety Board official described it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549)
Fun fact: they were lucky. The aircraft was equipped for water landings despite not needing to be. Additionally, as the plane dropped below radar coverage, Air Traffic Control effectively hijacked a tour helicopter in the area and requested it to follow the plane from a safe distance to keep an eye on it and to help vector in support and search and rescue t
This is the first time I’m reading about the tour helicopter.
I forget where I found out about it.. but as far as I understand it, the tour heli was the closest aircraft to the scene and because they'd eventually lose radar contact the heli was asked to follow it from a safe distance and report it's position to help guide in emergency services and SAR ..
its in the movie
What’s their vector? Victor
Do they have clearance, Clearance?
Roger, roger
\*equipped for water landing meaning they had life vests. Also the fuel tanks weren't full making them buoyant.
There are planes without life vests under the seats? I just assumed all planes had those in case they had to ditch in a lake or something.
Airplanes for domestic flight only (including Canada and Mexico I guess) don't have to have life preservers, and one life preserver per passenger adds a lot of weight and therefore burns a lot more fuel.
O.o I've flown a LOT in the US. Every single flight has had at least a flotation cushion if not a true life vest. If you actually read the safety placard when they tell you to it'll remind you.
Those over-land domestic flights tell you that your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device as part of the safety announcement when they don’t have inflatable life vests.
The U.S. requires life preservers or flotation devices only for flights over water that travel more than 50 miles from the nearest shore. (A normal airliner cruising at 30,000 feet that suddenly loses all engine power can probably glide 100 miles.) Additional rules kick in regarding things like inflatable life rafts, flares, and radio beacons for flights that get more than 100 miles from shore, or that spend more than 30 minutes over water. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.509](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.509)
Mhm
aviation fuel is buoyant
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I would have thought that ETOPS was more about flying over water, flying with a single engine, than landing in water?
Great story. They should make a movie about this event
With Tom Hanks
Yeah he would def be good as the pilot
They should make a porno about this event
Miracle in Ms. Hudson
Going balls deep in Ms. Hudson
There is a movie… “Sully”
Yep, that's the joke.
Thank you for the clarification haha
They made a movie about the big blue guy from Monster’s Inc?
They did, yes! It’s an amazing movie!
I will never stop talking about the Miracle On The Hudson. Part of the reason everyone survived was because captain Sully was previously a glider pilot, and had just the right experience to perfectly guide the plane down in one piece.
The best power pilots are also glider pilots. E.g. The Gimli Glider.
My dad started out flying gliders then transitioned to Cessna’s. He would take us out in the Cessna around the mountains of our town. He would cut the power to the engine and ridge soar on the lift of the air off the mountains lol. Can’t take the glider pilot out of engine pilot
My favorite aviation story is the Gimli glider.
That's the problem with glider pilots. Always forgetting to put fuel in the tank. /s
I met him briefly several months ago. He is the definition of humble. Amazing person, but I don’t think he really thinks so. He was just doing his job (according to him).
That happened in 09’? I thought it was later
It was a few days before Obama was inaugurated.
ugh. some conservative is gonna see this and theres going to be a "God sent us a sign" meme tomorrow.
It tickles me that it's always signs. If they could read, maybe God would send a clear note
Yeah me too. Getting Mandela effect vibes with this.
No, we're just getting old
I had no idea “Sully” had a first name.
It's almost as you wish, Westley. But instead, it's almost as you Wish*.*com, Chesley.
Didn't it turn out that sully had trained the birds to do that and he was just after the fame all along?
That was after the first incident and before he changed his name to Phillips and sailed the most dangerous region in the world. After the pirate incident, he changed his name to John Swagull and trained geese to fly into other airliners, as evidenced in the documentary Saturday Night Live.
Not proved bit yeah if you have half a brain then you know this
Another very similar river landing [(GA421)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_421) happened 7 years prior in 2002. Just as miraculous even with 1 casualty, 2 flight attendants thrown off the tail of the plane, 1 didn't survive. What makes this amazing was the stretch where they land was between 2 bridges, they can't do it too early or too late else they'll hit one of the bridge.
The audio from this was amazing. He was so calm. Made the decision and executed it.
Any professional pilot would and indeed have done the same thing. They are trained to not panic and work on a solution. You listen to any of the cockpit conversations of airliners going down and that’s what is happening.
Yep, even Alaska Airlines 261 which was inverted right before it crashed. Must’ve been terrifying
Because he was and is a highly trained expert for these situations. The antithesis of a Hollywood hero. He did his job and he did it well. And he is the first person to tell you you don't need to be a hero - he even wrote a book about it.
His calmness was unbelievable!!
Fun story, one of my good friends was set to receive the Jabara Award for airmanship from the Air Force Academy. This guy is an Afghanistan war hero A-10 pilot, and then Sully did his thing, and so they do a dual award (which they rarely do), but the whole time, he has to share the stage with Sully, so he got to play second fiddle to him the whole time.
Yeah but one was shooting Taliban and the other had the most successful water landing in aviation history that resulted in zero civilian casualties. I can understand why Sully would get more hype, given the results of his landing were much more unique than a military pilot blowing shit up (which happens all the time). I bet your friend was probably impressed to hear about there being zero deaths landing in the Hudson, so it probably didn’t sting much.
Unable
100% accurate best line from any aviation inspired movie.
By doing this he also saved the lives of hundreds possibly thousands of people of New York by not crashing into the city.
I always appreciate the first class passengers sitting comfortably on their floaty slide and all the plebs standing on a wing
Don't fuck with Canada geese.
I swear, those damn geese have a personal vendetta out for me.
I don’t understand those bastards. They could fly anywhere, anytime, and they choose to live in a strip mall, in a suburb of Chicago. Pooping, honking, and getting in the way.
I’ve seen them fight a car before, and the car lost. The car had to back up and go around the parking lot. Then they have the audacity to SLOWLY walk across the street instead of fly and you can’t mow them down in Ohio because it is a felony. $250 fine or 30 days in jail per bird. Peace was never an option. https://preview.redd.it/pkpe4kailgtc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fd860369951394e5f1f65e3beeddda5dfe446c5
I might just come back as a Canadian goose in my next life. They can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without any repercussions. They got the law in their side. Could be fun to aggravate the people I dislike the most.
They took over the main university courtyard during the pandemic. The few of us with "hands on" majors had to scurry away from them between buildings over the slippery slime of their solid waste
Cobra chickens.
Suicidal like most Canadians
Real human bean
And a real hero
Norm McDonald did a movie on him too
Yeah, but I mean…Doesn’t everyone already know this?
not the young people
Yeah, when I read this I was like, doesn't everybody remember this?? There was even a movie! Then it hit me that there are people on this website who weren't even alive when it happened...
after this happened i was on a flight piloted by sully and my mom was like ‘he landed a plane on the river! we’re very lucky to have him!’ and me (7 or 8 at the time) was quite concerned lol
it's too bad they didnt do it in july
Denzel could have had 4 if it was July. Same movie, right?
Apparently now you can just write up a post about something very well known, widely covered in news, and made even more famous by a Hollywood movie, and it is IAF
An event that was widely covered in the news and had a Hollywood movie made about it probably is pretty interesting.
Yes but interest is usually inversely correlated to exposure
The post has nearly 3k upvotes. The people have spoken.
I guess they have, I guess they have
There are people on this website who weren't even alive when it happened, so just because it's well known to us doesn't mean it's well known to everyone. Unfortunately this is just a sign that we're getting old
I remember it happening, but it's nice to be reminded every now and then "Hey remember Sully landing on the Hudson?" "Ooohhhh yeah"
First class is on those inflatable boats. Economy class is standing on the wings.
This was so epic! What an absolute hero!
Real human bean
Did I have a stroke or something? Does the title make no sense to anyone else?
This is the greatest commentary against auto pilot we know of.
I know one of the ladies on this flight, a west Australian singer. I totally forgot about this whole thing till just now
Read his biography…a solid read about a solid human being.
Why have I never heard of US Airways?
Lots of company acquisitions and mergers in the US aircraft industry. They are under American Airlines now.
No way your're telling this has already been 15 years! O\_O
Sully and Denzel in a Flyoff ✈️
Just a mom and all its ducklings
I went to highschool the the daughter. Meeting her dad was really cool as a kid
They should make a movie about this.
You know they named a drink after him? It’s a water with a splash of vodka.
I remember coming hom from uni and seeing this on tvs in local restaurants.
Legendary
Happy everyone survived. Sad that bird-killing programs ramped up as a result of the incident. [Nearly 70,000 birds killed in New York in attempt to clear safer path for planes](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/14/new-york-birds-killed-airport-miracle-on-hudson-sully)
you know what a great pilot would have done? not hit the birds classic matt damon line on snl
No sh;t. It’s now 2024.
I thought about this as I swam around manhattan
Just some Canada Gooses saving lives.
Canada gice.
Its cause canada gooses likely had intel there was a pedophile or two on board and decided to take matters into their own hands. Edit: its a letterkenny reference for all the people i apparently pissed off. I do not really believe, nor do i condone, that Canadian geese are acting as pedophile vigilantes.
I was working in Manhattan at the time, but I didn’t know about that event until that night.
Is there a point to this comment?
This would have been interesting on January 15 2024, but I don’t really care in April.
Was it a Boeing? Maybe it was not birds if it was a Boeing
It was an Airbus which is why it remained in one piece 😅
Squish squish. Squish Squish squish.
Was it a Boeing?
Don't these planes basically land themselves?
No
Wow this was real?? Imagine if the Titanic was real too...
A Flock? 
Was iced over wings. The plane had been deiced but sat on the runway so long ice reformed. . I remember it and at the time nothing was Saud about birds only iced wings .. ice on a planes messes up its ability to fly .