Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson (Hardcover) by Professor William Langewiesche

from rivkat

Short book lengthened too much by addition of extraneous lists (types of birds that hit planes, although the bit about the fish that hit the plane midair because it was carried in a bird's mouth is funny; all other non-bird animal strikes have been on the ground), which I suppose was done to just...

from jtlauderdale

This is a brief account of what happened that day in Jan. '09 on the Hudson River when now-famous Capt. Sullenberger saved an airbus full of passengers from disaster. It wasn't solely his flying skill and courage that saved the day, although there was plenty of that. The fly-by-wire airbus is mis...

from michaelm42071

Langewiesche knows his audience will have already heard about Cactus 1549, so he begins obliquely with what New Yorkers would have seen of the ditching that day, and then he builds up the picture with the public National Transportation Safety Board meeting six months afterward. He describes the c...

from michaelm42071

Langewiesche knows his audience will have already heard about Cactus 1549, so he begins obliquely with what New Yorkers would have seen of the ditching that day, and then he builds up the picture with the public National Transportation Safety Board meeting six months afterward. He describes the c...