Emergency plane landing pilot credits study for saving him
LONDON, Sept 6 —
A man from the United Kingdom has been credited for saving a pilot on a U.S. Airways flight after the pilot could not land successfully on a runway in the United States.
The pilot, whose name was not released, attempted to land at Manchester Airport, where there are no flights, the pilot told The Independent newspaper. The pilot said that 바카라he thought he was going to land on runway 25.
The pilot said that he was not trying to land on runway 25 but was making an emergency landing on runway 15 when the pilot said he could no longer land on the same runway. A U.S. Airways representative said no flights were affecte바카라d on that day and the pilot was able to land safely.
The pilot, who is the brother of U.S. Air Force Captain William H. Hargrave, told The Independent that the pilot was a very experienced commercial pilot who could not land without a serious incident and had done numerous flinatyasastra.comghts for U.S. Airways.
In addition, the pilot says he studied aviation safety history as part of his job at United Airways, and was impressed with the pilot’s work ethic and his willingness to make every attempt to land.
„There is no one who can land on a runway in England that is not going to ask a lot of questions and do everything they can to see they get the results they want,“ the pilot said.
Hargrave, who retired in 2002 after 15 years in the Air Force, had no further comment on the incident, which he also called „an accident of the largest kind.“