David Morton
Lifetime Supporter
I went to see Sully played by Tom Hanks. How superb was that.
It made me rethink about things I took for granted in my previous life in BA.
If the same thing happened to me during departure from JFK, we were always
packed to the gunnels with 400 pax and carrying about 90 tonnes of jet fuel plus another 30 to 50 tonnes of freight. Turning back or picking another aerodrome in the local area would never have been an option and the Hudson would also have been the chosen point. It did happen when I was flying VR inthe RAF at Kinloss in Scotland. The aeroplane was a Nimrod MR2 and 89 seagulls were counted as going through the engines, three and a half engines were destroyed and the aeroplane came down in the forest to the north east of the airfield killing two pilots and seriously injuring other crew members.
If you have not seen Sully yet, you really must. You could hear a pin drop
right until the end of the final credits.
Absolutely Superb.
It made me rethink about things I took for granted in my previous life in BA.
If the same thing happened to me during departure from JFK, we were always
packed to the gunnels with 400 pax and carrying about 90 tonnes of jet fuel plus another 30 to 50 tonnes of freight. Turning back or picking another aerodrome in the local area would never have been an option and the Hudson would also have been the chosen point. It did happen when I was flying VR inthe RAF at Kinloss in Scotland. The aeroplane was a Nimrod MR2 and 89 seagulls were counted as going through the engines, three and a half engines were destroyed and the aeroplane came down in the forest to the north east of the airfield killing two pilots and seriously injuring other crew members.
If you have not seen Sully yet, you really must. You could hear a pin drop
right until the end of the final credits.
Absolutely Superb.