The computer animation in this video recreates the flight path and Hudson river landing of US Airways Flight 1549. Although the details of the story are by now familiar to nearly everyone—the plane hit a couple of geese, which took out the engines, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing on the Hudson, saving the lives of everyone on board—the animation captures the sequence of events in an extremely precise way. The animation is timed to the audio track from the traffic control towers,which really shows how little time there was for the pilot to act. The incident from strike to landing takes about two minutes (the audio has been edited a bit down from its original runtime of around four minutes).
Maybe it is just because I live in New York City, but the incident continues to amaze me. I discovered the video on Facebook, after it was posted there by Pejman Nozad.
(Hat tip also to Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick, who brought the video to my attention by sharing it on Facebook.
Wow…
Yeah just amazing, I mean I can’t even think of anything more scary then that…. if your on that plane and the pilot tells you, “where going down” and where going to hit the water…
Your probably thinking OMG!!.. What??
Even worst is if your the pilot, because you know there is nothing harder then trying to land on water, not to mention the engine is dead, so you have to glide it on top of the water just right, or the whole thing will rip apart…
Just wow…
)))))
howcome my version of flight simulator doesnt look like this.
impressive.
Not to detract from the accomplishment, but the event took longer than the two minute video. The audio track has been edited down. Here’s the full transcript:
http://www.faa....t%20%20L116.pdf
It’s about 4 minutes from the report of the bird strike to the last transmission from the plane.
Here is another YouTube video with computer animation of the flight.
http://www.yout...h?v=_G2TLqxWM04
Wow. TechCrunch has really gone downhill.
Just kidding. This rocks. You other guys STFU.
I blame mathew ingram for hooking me on twitter; i posted that video a couple of weeks ago (thx matt!)
The video was created by Scene Systems (www.scenesystems.com). The original video has now been watched over 1.5m times and can be found here (http://www.yout...h?v=imDFSnklB0k). Scene Systems were covered last month in Venturebeat (http://ventureb...-crash-landing/)
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http://blogs.ws...on-river-crash/)
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Incredible! I wonder what the people was thinking when they were standing in the wing.
My feet are cold.
super old news!
I forgot to mention this got picked up on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC
The link is here: http://www.msnb...15908/#29500431
Duck, you sucker.
Awesome. The best part is the way they integrated all radio comms. One error though: He crossed over the George Washington Bridge 900ft above it and it was a major obstacle to his water approach. They didn’t include that at all in the animation. Sully’s judgement on whether he was going to make it over the top of the bridge was drawn from his experience piloting gliders (his hobby) and was the most impressive part of this landing.
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I wished i was one of the passengers.. It is a ride that can’t be found on amusement parks..
I was in NYC the day that happened. What nobody mentions is how cold it was that day. It must have been 15 degrees with wind chill around zero. Luckily there were no ships out there on the river because they have cruise ships that come into port during the summer.
Wow. Talk about strength, courage and making decisions on the spot. I agree he saved everyone’s life doing this.
“We’re going to be in the Hudson”
– pilot’s last reply before he lands in the Hudson river
Slow news day
Nice animation, too bad its old news.
thats scary. if I were on that plane.
Arrrghh, Youtube is banned at work!
This video is amazing. It looks so real! The pilot made a pretty quick decision and I think he did a great job that day.
Freaking amazing.
Interesting video. I’m still wondering who the passenger was who opened the rear door, flooding the plane.
Sully is a true hero, and not to diminish the incredible accomplishment with some Monday morning quarterbacking… but it may turn out that his order to evacuate immediately after ditching in the Hudson was a bad call. We hear that water was coming in immediately, but later find out that a passenger opened the rear exit door, causing the flooding. Perhaps the captain should have taken a few seconds to assess whether the plane had any leaks before giving the order to evacuate. If there were no leaks, it would have been much safer to wait for rescue boats before opening any doors, and to evacuate through the front doors only.
Fortunately, all’s well that ends well… and this issue can be covered in the investigation and recommendations that will surely follow.
LOL “which runway you want? teterboro?….nah we’re gonna be in the hudson….WHAT?”
Unbelievable animation.
The emotion in the controller’s final sentence really got me. He is absolutely sure that everyone on that plane is dead.
Pretty, but not accurate.
The landing speed on the Hudson is far too fast for the apparent field of view. I’m assuming that the pilot touched-down as close to stall speed as possible. The climb attitude is also wildly unrealistic in quite a few views (30+ degrees?).
The smoking engines are also overly dramatic, and unrealistic.
Wait for the real NTSB animation, which will be based on the flight recorders.