Catch 60 minutes now - Capt. Sullenberger interview

[TheCowsCameHome]

Should be good.

[pokerfan]

1. Please post a recap

We left-coasters still have three hours to go...

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. What a stupid question; "Did you pray?"

Sully answered like a pro.

Something to the effect "I was too busy trying to land the airplane"

[ferrous wheel]

4. How very familiar -that- sounds! Only a pilot who has given up will resort to

pleading with imaginary deities.

[AlinPA]

5. That was a good comeback to her. He was thinking and working.

[yodoobo]

39. Didn't strike me as a comeback or an adversial exchange

Just an honest answer to a question that a some of her viewers may of been wondering. (not me, i was more interested in the aeronautical tidbits).

I'll give Katie a pass, after all she helped expose Palin.

I still don't understand why this forum freaks out so badly anytime religion is hinted at.

[lostnotforgotten]

41. Simply Because, With Each Passing Day, We Are Learning That Religion Is A Disease

eom

[yodoobo]

42. I think its in our genetics to always have an enemy that needs to be destroyed

or at least feared.

I've seen diseases that ravage the body and mind. Most of us have.

As diseases go, its not that bad really.

[LanternWaste]

45. As are all man-made imaginary constructs

As are all man-made imaginary constructs-- philosophy, politics, economics, literature, etc...

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[malaise]

6. Unfuggingbelievable

Great answer indeed.

[truth2power]

8. Thank you. I logged on just to address that...."Did you pray?"...

Katie Couric is an idiot! I'm watching that and I thought, "WTF?".

Is she the best they could do for an interviewer?

[Lisa0825]

37. It also pisses me off that so many are calling it "The Miracle on the Hudson."

It wasn't a fucking miracle! It was real life expertise and grace under pressure. Sully and the crew deserve the credit, and I think even GOD would say so!

[Uzybone]

10. Great answer

the only people who would spend precious time like that praying are either inept pilots or suicide pilots.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I sure agree. I cringed.

And cursed out the TV the second time she brought it up. What an idiot. But he is a pro and did his job. WTF is she doing this interview for, anyhow? Any of the real "60 Minutes" correspondents would have been preferable... x(

[pokerfan]

35. That reminds me of a story

Some reporter once gave Buzz Aldrin a hypothetical situation: “You’re in your spacecraft and your engine dies and it takes your life support system with it. You have an hour to live. How would spend that last hour?”

Aldrin's response: “I’d work on the engine.”

[kenny blankenship]

40. This is what it sounds like when you got praying in the cockpit going on:

01:48:03 Flight Captain (FC): Excuse me, Jimmy, while I take a quick trip to the toilet...
01:48:08 Relief First Officer (RFO): Go ahead please, go ahead please.
01:48:10 FC...before it gets crowded. while they are eating, and I'll be back to you.
01:48:19 <sound of cockpit door operating>
01:48:31 unintelligible phrase*
01:48:40 RFO: I rely on God... (faintly)
01:49:44
01:49:49 RFO: I rely on God...
01:49:52
and
01:49:56
01:49:57 RFO: I rely on God...
01:49:59 RFO: I rely on God... <four master caution tones>
01:50:01 RFO: I rely on God...
01:50:02 RFO: I rely on God...
01:50:04 RFO: I rely on God...
01:50:06 RFO: I rely on God...
01:50:07 FC: What's happening, what's happening?
01:50:08 RFO: I rely on God...
01:50:09 RFO: I rely on God...
FC: What's happening?
01:50:09 - 01:50:15
01:50:15 FC: What's happening, Gamil, what's happening?
01:50:20 - end (data shows pilot controls commanding nose up and
copilot commanding nose down, shown by
diverging elevator positions)
01:50:21
01:50:22
01:50:25 FC: What is this? What is this? Did you shut the engine(s)?
01:50:27 FC: Get away in the engines.
01:50:29 FC: Shut the engines.
01:50:30 RFO: It's shut.
01:50:32 FC: Pull.
01:50:33 FC: Pull with me.
01:50:35 FC: Pull with me.
01:50:37 FC: Pull with me.
01:50:38 crashed (end of CVR/FDR data)

[malaise]

3. Katie wins the dumb question award

Did you pray - a man is trying to save an aircraft and he'll find time to stop to pray. What a jackass.
Great answer Captain Sully.

[AlinPA]

9. Also: "You were going down, fast?"

[malaise]

15. You just have to laugh

or you'll cry.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Thanks fo the head's up!

:thumbsup:

Sully's answering Katie's inane questions well. Did she REALLY have to ask him WHY he didn't panic?:eyes:

[blueknight]

11. how does sully sit so easily?

i mean, his balls are HUGH!;)

[CatWoman]

12. he's just amazing

:applause:

[Dennis Donovan]

16. He was born to be a pilot...

..and modest, to boot!!!

[firedupdem]

14. I love this man. What a great guy...says his whole life was probably

in preparation for this incident.

[LiberalEsto]

30. That was a great statement

and it added a very different religious aspect to the interview, in my opinion. As if, maybe this was what God had prepared him to do, but he wasn't about to go hanging out his private religious views on TV.

[trof]

17. He does my profession proud. Too bad a pax opened a rear door.

The damned airplane would probably still be floating if that hadn't happened.

[Muttocracy]

22. yeah, I hadn't heard that before - someone being selfish or imagining themselves a hero. nt

[yodoobo]

36. More likely panicked and trying get out of what is normally an emergency exit.

When you look at the emergency cards, the rear exit is listed as an emergency exit.

Passengers aren't trained in airline emergency procedures. Was probably terrified for his life and thought that leaving the plane was a good idea.

One of the things I learned, is that even the flight attendants didn't realize until after they hit the water, that they were landing in the Hudson. Who knows what the passenger in question was thinking.

Fortunately, it all turned out very well.

[malaise]

27. Yep.

That was beautiful and yes hope does capture the world's imagination.
Sully's ditching of that aircraft was the full stop at the end of an eight year chapter of a horrible experience called the Bush years - successful event just before the inauguration.

[2Design]

28. yes that almost made a good thing a tragedy - flooding the plane n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

33. It pains me to say this, but the FA in the rear should've stopped it...

...before the guy got near it.

[stray cat]

34. She was injured and may have been closer to the front or dealing with others

[stray cat]

18. The crew comes across as very competent and very human

[truth2power]

19. I guess everyone here knows he was once a glider pilot...

I guess that helped some.

[maseman]

38. It didn't help some

It helped MOST. I've been flying for years and my good friend is a glider pilot. Those guys are a different breed. They are at th emercy of having no thrust so they rely 100% on their gliding physics to stay in the air. As soon as he registered mentally that his engines were dead his glider pilot skills took over.

I've been in a glider and it is a VERY humbling experience to be 200' off the ground and just about landing with no engines to help you if you need another shot at landing. You MUST get it right the first time. Exactly what he did when he landed in the Hudson.

[DemReadingDU]

20. This is so awesome

all the people thanking the crew.

[firedupdem]

21. okay..that made me cry...

the woman who said thank you for bringing my husband home.

[malaise]

23. This is really emotional

I love Sully and his crew.
He's still wondering about whether he made the best choices.

[stray cat]

25. It did make me emotional as well. Glad all came home safely

[2Design]

24. he is a pro in answering stupid questions and deflecting them

just straight and to the point -

[TheCowsCameHome]

29. He was truly in command then, and in the interview.

Very emotional to watch.............

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. What a humble man - a true hero

and his crew and the air traffic controllers deserve a ton of credit, too.

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. One thing this man reminds me of, every time I see him....

is that there are several thousand others out there just like him, flying large passenger airplanes every day, that will never have a similar scenario in their entire careers, yet they are just as highly trained as the good Captain.

It is encouraging to know so many airline pilots have military flying on their resume's and/or have the expertise and flying skills exhibited by Sully.

[trof]

32. What you say is very true.

I've been in some tight spots, engine failures and fires and such.
Passengers ODing on drugs.
One poor guy had what we later found out was a brain aneurysm.
We placed his body in one of the aft lavs until we landed.
:-(

Killed a few sea gulls, one in an engine.
But never anything like that.
And the guy is a Hollywood casting airline pilot.
What a guy.

[young_at_heart]

43. I hope Katie gets a lot of criticism for her stupid question

Why did the honchos at CBS think she was good interviewer? She once asked Condoleezza Rice how one would ask her on a date. That just about sums up Katie Couric!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

44. I thought that the rear flight attendant was on a different page than the others

She seemed pissed off to me. Wouldn't wear her uniform - said it was all ripped up, but I have to believe that she had more than one uniform, wouldn't you think? Also said that since the rear hit first the impact was a lot worse, said it wasn't as calm in her area as it was in the others. I'm thinking she's more focused on the reported earlier engine problems of the plane than the others and is mad! and not quite as willing to be the good corporate soldier like the others. She didn't want to say very much and I am thinking she sees a lawsuit in her future against the airline.

[Flygirl]

46. that nasty rear flight attendant

Phoebe, you were very kind regarding that woman. I was
appalled at her vehemence. Cut leg muscle?  She's so lucky to
be alive. One woman had two broken legs. All first reports
regarding that rear exit said it was opened by a FLIGHT
ATTENDANT, and caused much instability for the floating plane.
Hmmm. I just had to wonder. Did SHE actually open the exit?  
I couldn't believe at first that she wasn't wearing her
uniform proudly. Yes, I see a lawsuit here.  There is no way
she had only one uniform, and no way it would have been
literally "ripped to shreds."  She was walking very
well, and I saw no other external problems. I also thought she
was exceptionally rude when referring to Captain S.'s order to
repare for impact.  She merely indicated him by jerking her
head in his direction.  I can understand her being
frightened--everyone was. And she wasn't alone in the rear of
the plane, either.  There were others who had it just as
badly. But that uniform thing and vile attitude bears
watching. I don't mean to be excessively critical, so I'll
just quote my best friend: "Sure her uniform was
shredded. The size 28W she was wearing exploded on impact
because she needed a 34W."  Hey, that woman gave up a
chance to be brave and honorable in the eyes of the world--and
to pay her respects to the Captain who saved her bacon.