The story that surprised me most recently was about a pilot that managed to land an airplane on a New York river. All 155 people aboard survived the accident. There werent any serious injuries reported, besides one victim with two broken legs. The thing that surprised me the most was the reason for the crash. It was said that birds crashed into both of the airplane's engines and one of the engines even caught on fire. After the bird crashed into the airplane was hardly able to be controlled and it started falling down. Fortunately the pilot of the plane, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger was a very experienced pilot with over 29 years of flying in the US Airways.
His first words after the accident were "I was only doing what I had to do". In my opinion,
the fact that everyone on board survived is just amazing and difficult to believe.
This is a very good account of the news story. I think it's inspiring to hear stories like this that have a happy ending. It often seems to be only the bad news that makes the news headlines, and it would be nice to hear more about heroic rescues and escapes.
ReplyDeleteThis happened a long time ago, but it was a nice story and that's good that you reminded about this hero pilot.
ReplyDeleteIt's really hard to avoid accident, isn't it? So be be careful people!
ReplyDeleteYes, i absolutly agree with the another student. it's really unbelieveble and unusual. And people are lucky that pilot of this plane is very brave and have got 29 years experience as pilot, that's help them to survive.
ReplyDeleteIt is a very interesting and innusual. I agree with Yulia that the pilot was very brave and the passeger had a lot of luck.
ReplyDeleteGood theme..
To be honest, I can't remember anything like this. maybe I heard about that but I forgot. This is really fantastic that all the people safe their lives. however, they got now good experience ;)
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