Captain Chelsey Sullenberger who is better known as Captain Sully is breaking his silence on the tragic crash that left 67 people dead in DC.
An American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk helicopter at about 9 pm last week. The incident has left many questions on people’s minds in terms of what went wrong.
Sully who is famous for landing a giant passenger plane on the Hudson River in 2009 mentioned to the NYT that there might be two factors that led to this terrifying outcome.
If proper protocol was followed, it would have never occurred but here, it appears to him that two things made it hard for the plane to avoid the chopper in the first place.
He said that there would have been fewer ground lights visible over water than over land at night. Therefore, that would have made things so much more difficult to see.
He also added that nighttime makes things harder for the aircraft to see others in its view. All you see is the lights on them, he continued.
‘You have to try to figure out if that is above you or below you. You also need to determine if it’s far from you and in what direction they might be headed’- he shared.
He hoped the cockpit voice recorder, traffic control data, and in-flight data would assist in clearing up what went wrong.