RE:YouTube composite animated bird strike of Flight 1549

[brad kaste]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXCulRjPas


Well worth watching for the whole 5 and a half minutes. Gives a better perspective what Captain Sully had to do in bring the plane safely down.

[Lionheart]

Thanks Brad. That is one awesome bit of footage.

Scary how fast things can go bad..



Bill

[Naismith]

Very good animation

[Wittpilot]

You always heard how calm 'Sully' was but I guess I had never read the communication between him and his First Officer... pretty damn calm... I love this part... Sully= "Got any ideas?" FO= "Actually, No..."

[FengZ]

wow, great video and flying by both pilots.

Man, wish our flightsim looked that good. The shot of Manhattan during climb looked beautiful...

-feng

[Dain Arns]

Someone posted this sim's main site earlier, but I can't seem to find it. So thanks to them.

Anyway...

If you go to the main site, they have radar data on the second video down from the top, that shows the birds flight as well. Based on the birds changes in direction, it looks like one other plane almost hit this same flock of geese while this event was going on. :eek:

http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cactus_1549_hudson_river.html