Miraculous Plane Landing on New Orleans Levee

This Captain Deserves the Sulley Treatment.This was beyond amazing flying.

This pilot saved so many lives by using his training and skill.What an amazing outcome for all involved.These pilots deserve the highest reccognition possible. Incredable!

Today, September 1, 2023, that man retired from commercial aviation. respect

"There wasn't even a bit of turbulance" The plane: Seizure intensifies

Flight Crew: Happy, Laughing, Smiling Passengers: Post Traumatic Trauma, Whiplash, Sprained Neck

3:12 - Pilots and passengers thrown around. 3:35 - "The landing was spectacular, the plane landed sooo smoothly. There wasn't even a bit of turbulence. A perfect landing." Someone's not telling the truth....

This should be just as famous as the Sully landing. Incredible skill.

Have we learned our lesson here? Yes don’t go on a plane with a smithsonian camera guy or bad things are going to happen

Forget "pilot error" - This is a case of "pilot brilliance!"

Sully isn’t the only one. This story and many others including the Gimley glider, are just as cool. These pilots are absolute heroes to me.

ryanair: see, this, THIS is the level we are supposed to be at.

This is smoother than most landings with Ryanair

DROOVE MY BOEING TO THE LEVEE BUT THE LEVEE WAS DRY

They show the landing as externally rough... the flight attendant then says "The landing was so smooth, like a perfect landing"

Surprised this wasn’t mentioned, but that levee was at the back of the NASA facility in New Orleans where I worked for many years. It’s in New Orleans East - the Michoud Assembly Facility, where the Saturn V boosters were built as well as the Space Shuttle External Tanks. The main NASA building there (Bldg 350) had photos of it and the plane/crew next to the main offices. It was an amazing feat, and just miraculous that nobody was hurt. NASA presented the crew with awards as well. :) I think this was 1988...?

4 horsmens of aviations miracles: * Hudson landing * 767 Belly landing * Cornfield landing * This

I always admired this this pilot. He used to fly prop planes in and out of the jungles of Central America and South America while being shot at by guerillas and that's how he lost his eye. I just don't understand how he was able to fly a commercial airliner with 1 eye. Passengers and crew have to be very, very happy he was flying the plane. He's always called a hero but many people don't see the whole picture. Flying a Boeing 737 and while in the air he loses 1 engine and stays cool, then he loses the 2nd engine and stays super cool and calm. He only had a few minutes and had to made a quick decision and then the the final minute he see's a levy but flying in the wrong direction, with no engines and close to the ground makes a very gutsy move and turns the plane towards the levy, this is an amazing feat of flying and a beautiful landing. I flew F-4's in Vietnam, if I was in his position, I would have picked the water. Boeing 737 are very heavy planes when loaded with passengers,crew and luggage. You have to remember he fly in and out of the jungles with shot up planes, losing an engine and damage to flaps, rudder, landing gear and superstructure, he knows what a plane can and can't do. This gave him a huge advantage. Cockpit tapes prove how cool and calm he was through the whole ordeal. The reason I would pick the water to land my F-4 is the following: No engines and very low altitude I wouldn't pick the levy. Plane is too heavy and may not have enough "runway" to stop the plane, and I would not make that maneuver (turn) with a minute to go. I have been shot at many times with anti aircraft, missiles and Migs. I consider myself a good pilot with an excellent record. I would have to put this guy a level above me. BTW: Boeing came with a crew and installed 2 new engines, check the plane and flew it off the levy.

people in the cockpit: Shaking violently Guy in the back: It was a perfect landing

still gotta say this again, there isn't a thing called altitude alert in the cockpit, they flash the same master caution button regardless of the warning type edit: there do be altitude warning in the cockpit, but it's not the altitude as how high the plane is, it's the cabin altitude (cabin pressurization)

3:07 The person in the back saved everyone.