Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> some say that they first tried to same the plane > "aviate-navigate-communicate", but some remind in case of fire the > directive is communicate first then work on the fire. > They had many hours to deal with the emergency, assuming it started with the flight deviation. Surely, during all that time, they had a moment to contact flight control and issue an emergency. They could trigger the SARSAT emergency beacon in a second by pressing a button. The notion that they were fighting a fire for hours, and they never got a chance to communicate, makes no sense at all. did they have radio contact ? it seems they were out of any control area ? > but were they connected by radio anyway ? > They always have radio contact. Large airplanes have SARSAT connections to satellite telephones. not everybody can land a plane of Hudson River and stay calm. > Over several hours any pilot will be calm enough to press the emergency beacon button or call in an emergency. If the event had lasted only a few minutes I could understand they might be overwhelmed, but there is no doubt it lasted for hours. - Jed
