“at the same time it’s a tribute to the designers that this was contained well enough to not bring down the entire aircraft.”

What Sully did is an entire different category than what happened here in my opinion.

Casting doubt

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

Good lord you got sort of knee jerk on that. It is an interesting question, regardless of the sex of the pilot. He says right in the post that he is glad “she” (not the computer) got it down safely and agreed she is a BA as well. Hell, the very fact that she is an F18 pilot establishes her bad assery right there.

I love how she ends comms with “Have a good day.” and “Thank you for the assistance.” in a calm and cool manner. Like hey I lost a chunk of plane and a passenger so my day is shit. I hope yours is pleasant.

After listening to the audio, and how chill she was during the whole landing, I was expecting her to put in a lunch order for her and the co-pilot.

On the plane I fly when a major malfunction occurs we disengage the autopilot, regain control of the aircraft run any drills and then and only then do we consider engaging the autopilot again.

Me: Well, I finished booking my flight to Dallas next week, let’s see what’s happening on Gizmodo...

In his defense, he might not have been all the way confident he was going to get to land. They can’t even find black-boxes these days, good luck finding an iPhone in a plane crash.

I bet you Mr. Martinez never turned on airplane mode on his phone. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS KIDS.

Never forget.

“We draw no conclusions regarding whether the installation of the privacy booth was the only, or the best, way for EPA to provide a secure telephone line for the Administrator,”

I don’t get it, if you aren’t donating to the Republican party to get your tax cuts...what exactly were you supporting? That is literally the only thing they stand for. It is the reason rich people give to Republicans.

obligatory.

Not enough people do...

Read about this over on Wonkette, and holy schamoly. More and more of that ding dang unreliable dossier keeps turning out to be true. I saw this interesting little tweet in the comment section as well:

FYI- this just happened, more bombshell Cohen news.

Dakotas, ranked:

Hugh G. Rection