The US Airways Flight 1549 'Miracle on the Hudson' was a great news day and Sullenberger warranted praise for DOING IT RIGHT, but I can't shake the feeling that in order not to 'sully' a good story, we've been bullshitted to and handwaved about Doreen Walsh opening the rear door allowing water to enter the cabin.

I can totally understand someone panicking under those circumstances, and also understand she was injured and otherwise traumatised by the water landing. Nobody would go that hard on her if she forgot her training and didn't look through the window before cracking the door.

What I can't abide is the possibility this bitch lied about checking for water as per her training, then "some passenger" pushing past her and cracking the door, along with some heroic story of fighting them off to try to close it again. There were witnesses who claimed otherwise:
>No [attorney Frank Scudere] said, he and others saw the flight attendant open the rear door. "Nobody was there to rush past her to open the door. I saw her back turned, and she was opening the door, and she said, 'Oh my God, we're in water!' I don't want to be critical. She hadn't gotten any warning that we'd be landing in the water. I just want to set the record straight."

More accurately I can't abide the apparent lack of curiosity about the fucking truth. Sure the NTSB did their investigation, but as far as I can tell they didn't conclude anything about the identity of the 'some passenger', or whether Doreen lied. Just giving some waffle praising the crew in general and basically saying all's well that ends well.

This is from an organisation the will dredge up literally a million parts from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and reassemble them in a hanger to find which $2 bolt failed. But we're not interested if your stewardess is going to freak out when it counts, endanger everyone on board, and then lie about it? Not worried that even a female 'some passenger' could overpower them and open the door?

- more than half the passengers didn't even take lifejackets with them since they somehow brainfarted themselves into thinking they were on land or something

- a320 is assumed to float level with the rear doors above water in a ditching, unlike a 737 which is not (consult their safety cards for how they're supposed to be evacuated)

(however as you can see from picrel this did not happen in the actual accident)

- my guess is that the flight attendants had the same brainfart as everyone else. maybe their training emphasising that the rear doors would be usable and that there were rafts fitted there might have made them more mentally inclined to go for the rear doors without looking? iunno

>>2039180
> only 33 passengers of 150 aboard US Airways Flight 1549 had a life vest after the plane splashed down in the Hudson River in 2009. Only four people managed to properly don their life vest, securing the waist strap so it wouldn’t pop off.

idk i think it was just a goofy panicked hurry moment in an evacuation where apparently nobody noticed the plane was on the water somehow

maybe in future the public address call should be "brace for landing on water" to cue people to actually get the lifejackets and double check to see if the back end is sinking?

fuck knows, i'm going to bed, bye

>>2039181
Well, you shouldn't be putting the left vests on inside the plane anyways.

In either case, Sullenberger is a chump and Al Haynes is a true American hero.

>>2039180
It's almost like you can't rely on panicked monkeys to remember 'muh training' or to react rationally when the shit hits the fan. So if you were another monkey working for an organisation that is supposed to sift through all this shit, you should judiciously assess ALL the flaws in the systems, whether they be mechanical, electronic, or MONKEY-based, and then recommend any appropriate alterations. Like maybe instead of relying on a coffee-bitch monkey to check through the monkey window to see if there's water outside, you have the plane detect a water landing electronically and turn on a big flashing blue idiot light, or engage a latch to make opening the door a slightly different are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this monkey-proof procedure. Whatever the solution, it sure would be just fucking peachy if you could get the goddamned fucking truth about what all the monkeys actually did in order to figure out the problem and therefore the right solution for next time.

>>2039182
>Well, you shouldn't be putting the left vests on inside the plane anyways.
You should put them on, but not inflate them in the cabin.

>>2037577 (OP)
The A320 flight deck has a ditching button that closes valves below the waterline. Sully did not press this button as far as I am aware. That is part of why the aircraft began to sink. Ditching checklists now include the pressing of this button.

>>2039404
As I understand it, he didn't have time to go through any checklist anyway, so that wasn't the problem.

>>2037577 (OP)
>somebody called Dooreen
>be surprised when she opens a door
ishygddt

>>2039182
>>2039355
I don't see how that makes a difference, don't they inflate anyway when water touches them? isn't the point of not inflating in the cabin so you don't get trapped?

Thank Doreen for her service

>>2045060
The last thing anyone needs to give this bitch is a key to open any more doors. She can't be trusted.

>>2041631
>>2046001
These boys see the bigger picture