FAA Releases Hudson Plane Audio

Thanks for your point of view. I do know that there are many responsible pilots and officers and I am not discrediting them in anyways. However there is a situation happening here in San Francisco that does not reflect the most ideal aviation behavior and rules. Before 2004-2005 you would not see any aircraft roaring on City landscape as it is now. We have so many problems with noise from traffic that goes until and over 2:00 AM when our City Bus stops running. After 3:00 AM Aircraft start roaring towards Oakland airport. Many times they glide through North Beach one after another using a very strange route taking a scenic view of the City and flying dangerous low pointing their turbines towards residential landscape.
I had report these incidents but like I said it fell (literarily speaking); on deaf ears.

Stopnoise, correct me if I'm wrong, but based on your profile I believe you are opposed to noise pollution? That's a tricky position to take with airplanes. Aircraft operation is safer without noise abatement procedures We can get to higher altitudes more quickly and we can fly the route most free of obstacles. But since aircraft are so incredibly reliable, and we really do want to be good neighbors, we try our best to follow noise procedures whenever possible. This involves power reductions during climb (after all obstacles have been cleared), early turns to avoid populated areas, and the minimum altitudes over populated areas that you keep mentioning. These procedures do exist, and pilots are expected to abide by them. Cities have even fined airlines and even pilots for violating the procedures. I don't disagree with noise abatement procedures because I want to be a good neighbor too, but I assure you these procedures wouldn't have made this US Airways accident turn out any differently.

Maybe I didn't make myself clear earlier. This incident occurred on takeoff... as in the aircraft was not capable of being at a higher altitude at that moment. It was climbing as quickly as it could have been. It is not possible -- as in not physically possible--for the airplane to have been any higher that soon after departure. You seem to think the pilots climb to a couple hundred feet and level off there to see how long they can tempt fate. Airline climb procedures are constructed to give the aircraft the most options in the event of an emergency should one occur at any point during the takeoff roll, initial climb, acceleration segment, second segment climb, and so on... This aircraft was climbing through 3200ft when they hit the birds 30 to 45 seconds after takeoff. 3200ft in 45 seconds! Trust me they weren't taking their time. The simple fact of the matter is that if you suffer a dual engine failure shortly after leaving the airport, you don't have many options. Of course, I think there are some lessons to be learned here, but I think it has more to do with preventing bird strikes, and improving engine survivability after bird ingestion. I take offense to the idea that pilots and controllers would deliberately place aircraft at unsafe altitudes. I know of no controllers or pilots that would do so.

If you care to go back to my previous comments I did report this issue before but as usual if fell on deaf ears.
I would take this situation a little bit more seriously instead glamorizing it like the general media did. I have been filming and observing what pilots are doing today and it is not good. It is better for the FAA to take this incident as a warning and prevent more lives from being lost in the future by setting strict rules that are safer for people on the ground and in the air.

"Radar contact lost," sent a chill down my spine, even though it's not that uncommon a phrase to hear in other situations. In this case, you know why the radar can't see him.

:57 "unable"

Thats pretty intense. Just one word, and you can tell.

1:22, the hand off between the two traffic controllers at the other air strip is unreal.

I am not disqualifying the Captain for saving all those lives. However no one is for a moment thinking that what happened could be his and the traffic controller's mistake to allow the plane to fly too low as to endanger his life and the passengers. To hit that pack of birds, his got to be flying too low. Wake up America!!!!

Do air traffic control know that the plane has crashed in the Hudson in this audio clip? When the captain says, "We're not going to make it going into the Hudson." The traffic controller asks him to say again. Then communication is broken. The captain sounds so calm.

Helluva landing is right!

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