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Hero pilot Sully of 'Miracle on the Hudson' fame slams 'absurdly low' number of training hours for Ethiopian Airlines pilots after deadly crash
Sullenberger, 68, a retired US Airways pilot-turned-safety advocate, shared a lengthy post on his Facebook page Thursday addressing Sunday's accident that killed 157 passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
The hero of the 'Miracle on the Hudson' began by stating that while the cause of the the disaster is still unknown, the common denominator between this week's tragedy and the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia that happened last October is that both involved a Boeing 737-8 MAX.
'It has been obvious since the Lion Air crash that a redesign of the 737 MAX 8 has been urgently needed, yet has still not been done, and the announced proposed fixes do not go far enough,' Sullenberger wrote.
The Lion Air incident claimed 189 lives when the plane plunged into the Java Sea a shot time after takeoff.
Much of the world, including the US, the entire European Union and Australia, has grounded the Boeing jetliner from their airspace.
Sullenberger, who had logged more than 20,000 hours of flight by the time he landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the frigid waters of the Hudson following a bird strike, in what became known as the 'Miracle on the Hudson,' wrote that 200 hours is 'an absurdly low amount for someone in the cockpit of a jet airliner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ly-low-number-pilot-training-hours-crash.html
- Captain Sullenberger, 68, wrote a Facebook post Thursday addressing Sunday's accident that killed 157 passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
- Retired US Airways pilot raised questions about the design of Boeing 737-8 MAX
- He also drew attention to the 200 hours of flight that the first officer on the flight was reported to have had under his belt, calling the number 'absurdly low'
- For comparison, American commercial pilots must have at least 1,500 before getting their certification
Sullenberger, 68, a retired US Airways pilot-turned-safety advocate, shared a lengthy post on his Facebook page Thursday addressing Sunday's accident that killed 157 passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
The hero of the 'Miracle on the Hudson' began by stating that while the cause of the the disaster is still unknown, the common denominator between this week's tragedy and the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia that happened last October is that both involved a Boeing 737-8 MAX.
'It has been obvious since the Lion Air crash that a redesign of the 737 MAX 8 has been urgently needed, yet has still not been done, and the announced proposed fixes do not go far enough,' Sullenberger wrote.
The Lion Air incident claimed 189 lives when the plane plunged into the Java Sea a shot time after takeoff.
Much of the world, including the US, the entire European Union and Australia, has grounded the Boeing jetliner from their airspace.
Sullenberger, who had logged more than 20,000 hours of flight by the time he landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the frigid waters of the Hudson following a bird strike, in what became known as the 'Miracle on the Hudson,' wrote that 200 hours is 'an absurdly low amount for someone in the cockpit of a jet airliner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ly-low-number-pilot-training-hours-crash.html
