we all became familiar with bird strikes, with ambassador sullenberger and the miracle on the hudson more than a decade ago. and they are still wreaking havoc in the air. a u.s. bound flight from cuba recently made an emergency landing after a engine trouble caused the cabin to fill with smoke. sullenberger takes cnn s tom foreman inside a simulation. here we go. a passenger jet takes off. airspeed alive. then calamity, bird slam into the nose, wings in engines. that kept and happened to then captain sully sullenberger in 2009. we lost thrust on both engines. very quickly, almost simultaneously. the effect was immediately catastrophic. we can t do it.
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and, indeed, here in australia and throughout the southeast asia region, so you wouldn t expect that, mechanically, unless there was an engine failure, perhaps, that it would be a mechanicalfault, but if there had been something causing the aircraft to stall and it s obviously not keeping enough airspeed, it could be very much related to the fact that the pilot may have misidentified the runway and then tried to turn quickly, and because of the strong winds that are in the area of nepal, it could be a factor that may be one of the contributing factors to this awful accident. yeah, ron, on that, what about the conditions in nepal in terms of flying? you know, what s known about that and what s that like for pilots? look, yes, in those regions i ve seen some of the airports
throughout the world and, indeed, here in australia and throughout the southeast asia region, so you wouldn t expect that, mechanically, unless there was an engine failure, perhaps, that it would be a mechanicalfault, but if there had been something causing the aircraft to stall and it s obviously not keeping enough airspeed, it could be very much related to the fact that the pilot may have misidentified the runway and then tried to turn quickly, and because of the strong winds that are in the area of nepal, it could be a factor that may be one of the contributing factors to this awful accident. yeah, ron, on that, what about the conditions in nepal in terms of flying? you know, what s known about that and what s that like for pilots? look, yes, in those regions