Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2009 (21. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2009-01-23 / 3. szám
New Start for a Popular Favorite - this time on Sunday nights JAZZ-PRES SZÓ with László Cser and Tom Pedrini Oscar Ross brought a tableful of guest to the event, including György Korda and wife Klári Balázs George Poliak (right) and his wife Gizi (center) are regulars at Duna Csárda events. Here with a guest. The Band: Tom Pedrini and László Cser Margit Árvay and Michelle Katona with their men after the opening of their painting exhibiton “Miracle on the Hudson” Captain „Sully” lands his plane on the river minutes after takeoff over New York, with both engines dead. 155 passengers and crew walk away unhurt! “If you have the bad luck to be at the helm of a crippled passenger jet, there may be no better place to land it than in this vigilant and disaster-ready city. And if you have to land on water, you might as well do it on the Hudson river, just before rush hour in front of a busy ferry boat terminal” (LAT) Minutes after departing La Guardia Airport, the crew of US Airways Flight 1549 faced a really quick decision Thursday afternoon, at 3,200 feet over the central Bronx. The plane had suffered “a double bird strike,” one of the pilots told an air traffic controller at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control. Captain Sullenberger Feeling the plane shake after hitting the birds, and the loss of power in both engines, watching the dials show thrust slipping away, the crew looked ahead and caught a glimpse of a runway. What is that small airport, one pilot asked a controller. Teterboro, in New Jersey, the controller replied, and instructed the pilot to fly south along the Hudson River, then swing back to the north to land there. Instead, the pilot told the controller that they would ditch the plane in the river. They then cleared the George Washington Bridge by about 900 feet, according to controllers, and at a point near the end of West 48th Street in Midtown Manhattan, the plane slid into the river’s smooth, gray waters. In a few weeks, a close comparison of radar tapes and cockpit audiotapes will establish where the plane was when that clipped, urgent conversation took place, and other investigators will try to figure out why this one plane, flying through some of the world’s most congested airspace, was the only one to report a bird problem. The twin-engine plane is supposed to be able to fly on one engine. But from early indications, it appears the pilot handled the emergency river landing with aplomb and avoided major injuries, evacuating the plane, an Airbus A320, calmly in the middle of the river, passengers and officials said. Airliners are not meant to glide, although occasionally they have to. The pilot of this one, Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, is certified as a glider pilot, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. Captain Sullenberger, known as Sully, flew the F-4 for the United States Air Force for seven years in the 1970s after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy. He joined USAir, as it was called at the time, in 1980 and became a “check airman,” training and evaluating new pilots or those changing to new aircraft or moving up to captain. He also was an accident investigator for the union, the Air Line Pilots Association. Captain Sullenberger’s wife, Lorrie Sullenberger, a fitness expert in Danville, Calif., said she learned about the crash on Thursday afternoon when her husband called her. “I haven’t stopped shaking yet,” she said in a brief phone interview. US Airways pilots can drill for water landings in a simulator, but no one knows how realistic that is. “You’re landing on a big blue screen,” said one US Airways A320 pilot, referring to the flat-panel computer screens in the simulator. Real life is quite another story. What Captain “Sully” did to save the plane and his passengers, has come to be regarded as “the Miracle on the Hudson,” and rightly so. Singer György Korda and wife Klári Balázs with Consul General Balázs Bokor at Duna Csárda Singer György Korda (center) with Duna Csárda owner Julius Jancso and his host, Oscar Ross Dr. Robert Wendt (center) with his mother (left) and his wife Rosalie who recently lost her mother DUNA Travel 8530 Holloway Dr. #102 W. 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