Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgment
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction: How Teamwork Is More Important than Technical Prowess
- 1 Rethinking Normal Accidents and Human Error – A New View of Crisis Management
- 2 USS Greeneville – The Downside of Charismatic Leadership
- 3 The Hillsborough Football Disaster – Explosive Team Chemistry
- 4 American Airlines Flight 587 – Latent Failures Align
- 5 Bristol Royal Infirmary – The Price of Organizational Overreach
- 6 US Airways Flight 1549 – Thinking through Crisis
- 7 Team Resource Management
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - US Airways Flight 1549 – Thinking through Crisis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgment
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction: How Teamwork Is More Important than Technical Prowess
- 1 Rethinking Normal Accidents and Human Error – A New View of Crisis Management
- 2 USS Greeneville – The Downside of Charismatic Leadership
- 3 The Hillsborough Football Disaster – Explosive Team Chemistry
- 4 American Airlines Flight 587 – Latent Failures Align
- 5 Bristol Royal Infirmary – The Price of Organizational Overreach
- 6 US Airways Flight 1549 – Thinking through Crisis
- 7 Team Resource Management
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
“Even in those early seconds, I knew this was an emergency that called for thinking beyond what's usually considered appropriate”.
Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger III, US Airways Flight 1549, after landing his airliner on the Hudson River Copyright © 2009 by Chesley B. Sullenberger III. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 departed New York City at 3:25 p.m. en route to Charlotte, North Carolina. The flight was proceeding uneventfully as the Airbus A320 lifted off LaGuardia Airport's Runway 4, gently climbing over the snowy city.
“What a view of the Hudson today!” the captain, Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger III, exclaimed as the crew completed their after-takeoff checklist.
“Yeah!” his copilot, First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, agreed while flying the jet.
Suddenly, just ninety seconds after takeoff, the airliner struck a large flock of Canada geese ahead and to the right in a V formation.
“Birds!” the captain yelled. With no time to react or avoid, the aircraft ingested several twelve-pound water fowl into both engines.
“Whoa! Oh, shit!” the copilot exclaimed.
Geese hit the windshield, nose, and wings in rapid succession like pelting hail. “It sounded like it was ‘raining birds’” the captain recalled. They filled the windscreen, “large dark birds” like a “black and white photograph.”
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- Thinking Through CrisisImproving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk Fields, pp. 130 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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