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“We should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator, not in flight, with passengers and crew on board,” Sull
by DamnInteresting 7y ago
“We should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator, not in flight, with passengers and crew on board,” Sullenberger said, adding that “reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient.”
This is the one quote attributed to Sullenberger. Is that enough to claim that he "slams" Boeing? Headline hyperbole is annoying.
- giobox 7y agoGiven that a material part of Boeing's solution was to provide iPad based training materials rather than the simulator time he believes was necessary, coupled with his language - "not even close to sufficient" - I'm comfortable with calling this a slam. The full remarks from which this quote is lifted are significantly critical of Boeing, during which he describes the "current system of aircraft certification and design" as having "failed us". I don't think this headline mistakes the the nature of his remarks at all.
- dewyatt 7y agoThey got you to click on the link though, didn't they?
- jechamt 7y agoI fully agree with you and I came here to post this. On the other side, I would never click on a headline like this from another source, but it being here on HN provides some benefit of the doubt. Yahoo news reveals its consistent character, as usual, but at least this is balanced by the always insightful comments toward the material subject matter of the article (my own comment here notwithstanding).
- ncmncm 7y agoReads like a slam to me. Sully is not given to hyperbole. When he says "not even close" you can take it as given. He doesn't need to say, "shame on them!" But you know, and he knows you know.