Or anything ending in "ayden". There are 8 kids in my stepson's cub scout group, and like 6 of them are named Braden, Jaden, etc.

This is the guy that Captain Sully buys beers for.

Worse than simply no control surfaces - there was an asymmetric drag condition caused by damage to the right stabilizer, which resulted in a small, but noticeable pull to the right.

The fact that anyone survived that crash is a testament to the immense skill that this crew leveraged in this situation. None of the crews who attempted to replicate the crew's actions in the simulator after the fact were able to make it to the airport at all. Think Denzel in "Flight", but sober.

This one is a pretty good watch too...

I'd like to see you land a DC-10 with no hydraulics. That means no control surfaces. They were only able to keep the thing in the air by varying the throttles of the 2 remaining engines. Try driving your car with no steering and only using the gas and brake. You might also look at what happened to JAL 123,…

The sad part is, if luck had been on their side, the changes would never have been made (until a lesser pilot would've been forced into complete disaster). It always takes death to force the hand of the government into making expensive changes that the Airlines don't want to.

Fifteen years ago last month American Airlines 1420 crashed in Little Rock. I was one of the 134 that survived. The captain along with ten passengers died. We left Dallas Fort Worth airport in an MD-82 around 8:30pm. I had just started a new job fresh out of college and was scheduled to meet a client in Bryant,…

I'd highly, highly recommend watching the episode of Errol Morris' First Person about Denny Fitch. Part one is here:

Of course, if he (and the two other members of the crew and an expert who just happened to be in the passenger cabin) hadn't been great at their jobs, there would have been zero survivors — and they came within a bit of luck of pulling off an actual landing that everyone probably would have survived. It was one of…

NBA executives would appreciate it if you would stop stealing their material regarding the Key Arena.

And Haynes is self-deprecating, too. Wow.

As the pilot & copilot were recorded on the plane's cockpit voice recorder:

The pilots were given clearance to land on runway 31, but they were on a path for runway 22, which was only 6,600 feet long and it was also closed.

That's amazing. They both must have titanium balls.

That's the biggest damn basement I've ever seen.

They had their tray tables up and their seats in the upright locked position.

The crew (particularly pilots) & flight instructor deserve immense credit for avoiding what could have been an even worse disaster.

there is a tremendous errol morris documentary on this crash. the whole thing is on youtube.