Aft Slides Were Useless
As a business traveler, I want to salute the captain and crew of US Airways 1549 that ditched in New York’s Hudson River on Jan. 15. Brilliant job! But I am concerned about how the aircraft came to rest, with aft cabin doors partially submerged. The emergency procedures cards show a ditching with...
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