You are assuming the pilots were alive. If they were terrorists they have mostly left people scratching their heads.
If it was a government they have just kidnapped/killed 220+ civilians, which makes no sense to me. What makes sense is that the pilot diverted to the closest large runway and was "not able" to complete the task, for whatever reason. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
