Flight Simulation of the Hudson River Waterlanding

The BBC commissioned a flight - sim replication of the last workweek ’s near - miraculous US Airways incident . So , in guinea pig you were wonder , this is what it front like to pilot a commercial-grade reverse lightning onto a river .

This digitl reenactment drives home just how quickly the event transpire , and how quickly the crew managed to answer . Another point raised by this video , though not as much as I would have liked : while the success of this landing largely came down do raw flight science , piloting a jet like this is as much akin to running a computer pole as it is to fly a attack aircraft spurt .

If the simulator photographic camera had pulled back a little more , the sheer complexity of the Airbus A320 ’s dominance panels would have been plain . It was an discriminating sense of space and fantastic piloting power that brought the passengers down safely , yes , but also a magisterial command of the plane ’s many subsystems , including the vital fuselage waterproofing chemical mechanism ( apparently not ) . To drive home just how flawless this landing place was , the BBC also includes footage of what can encounter when a plane is landed on water incorrectly ( Hint : destruction ) . [ BBCviaNeatorama ]