"vaughn" wrote in
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Tech Support wrote in message
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Here is my post. I only reported what media was saying and if TRUE
was a bad decission.

quote Witness also said gear was down (per media). If true (I said)
, was bad decision. unquote

Later reports were more accurate and said gear up and streaming video
of bird before touch down let ME see that gear was up.

Does this satify you or can you not understand standard english
relating to flight?.


I think that I understand standard English as it relates to flight
pretty well, but I still find your original "bad decision" comment
surprising. Even if the gear had happened to be down for that
ditching, I would not be the one to stick my neck out and call it a
"bad decision" until I had heard the REASON for the gear being down.
For several reasons, there may have not been a decision to be made nor
time to make it in.

The pilots' first job is the fly the plane, then communicate, and only
then deal with internal cockpit details. According to one AP report I
read (whatever THAT is worth) the pilots had at least three pages of
checklists for engine out and then ditching (probably more).
According to that same article, the pilots did not operate the "ditch
switch" so we can guess that the pilots simply did not have time to
work their way to the end of their checklists before impact.


Actually communication, for the most part, would come after the
checklists. All that would be required is a simple declaration of
emergency, unless th ecrew required something of ATC, like a vecotr, or
equipment.


Bertie