Audio from cockpit to ATC Southwest 1380 flight

Yep. She did a remarkable job. You can detect a little heartbreak in her voice when she's telling ATC that "someone went out". At that point she had no idea that the passenger was pulled back into the aircraft. She did a fantastic job and I hope she, and her co-pilot, are both given an award.
 
Wow. Her voice had such a clam soothing tone that no one got excited even with the passenger sucked out comment.

She was absolutely awesome in such a horrible event
 
Everyone kept their cool, remembered their training and did their job.

Thanks for posting the audio, that was cool to listen to.
 
Simple Simon. they have trained for this situation in the simulators so there really wasn't anything she hadn't encountered before. Remain calm, handle the situation as trained and the end result is predictable.

The ground control response was also predictable and the only thing I would have done differently would have moved 1380 to a different frequency to eliminate the other radio traffic and any possible confusion.

"Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance"........
 
Bailey Boat said:
Simple Simon. they have trained for this situation in the simulators so there really wasn't anything she hadn't encountered before. Remain calm, handle the situation as trained and the end result is predictable.

The ground control response was also predictable and the only thing I would have done differently would have moved 1380 to a different frequency to eliminate the other radio traffic and any possible confusion.

"Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance"........
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This is totally accurate. An aircraft losing an engine is almost a routine event in the emergency world.

And yes, when a transfer of control was made from the enroute center to the approach contol, a dedicated frequency should have been coordinated and assigned. Then, instead of giving the aircraft frequency changes, subsequent controllers would just key up the frequency and take control of it, to include having CFR pick up the frequency when the aircraft was on the ground if they needed to talk to the aircraft.
 
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The pilot also did a couple things differently (from the book) to hasten getting on the ground, procedures Sully Sullenberger said weren't trainable but rather instinctive.

I would buy her and her crew a beer.
 
Chuckman said:
The pilot also did a couple things differently (from the book) to hasten getting on the ground, procedures Sully Sullenberger said weren't trainable but rather instinctive.

I would buy her and her crew a beer.
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A (single) beer my butt, I'd bought each of them a case and then stepped and fetched when they were ready for another!!
AND cleaned up the mess when they were through.....
 
She is a former Navy F-18 fighter pilot. That should explain a lot. ;)
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