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SUMMARY:Morning Keynote Address: Miracle on the Hudson
DESCRIPTION:On a bright\, 20-degree afternoon in January\, US Airways Fli
 ght 1549 accelerated down New York La Guardia Airport’s main runway\, lo
 aded with 155 passengers and crew\, headed skywards for Charlotte\, NC. 
 Everything was normal until First Officer Jeff Skiles spotted a formatio
 n of Canada geese almost directly ahead. In a matter of seconds\, he hea
 rd numerous thunks as the birds impacted the aircraft. Both engines imme
 diately failed. Captain Chesley Sullenberger took over flying the plane 
 and lowered the nose down to retain airspeed. Within seconds\, the pilot
 s made the decision that returning to LaGuardia was simply not possible—
 they’d have to fly over densely populated areas and there was no guarant
 ee that they’d make it. Surrounded by nothing but skyscrapers and neighb
 ourhoods\, they decided to head to the only open\, flat space available—
 the Hudson River.\n\nSkiles tried to restart the engines. But the manual
 s are written for failures that happen at 30\,000 feet\, and the only tr
 aining pilots receive for water landings is focused on ditching in the o
 pen ocean. Skiles and Sullenberger were truly in uncharted territory. As
  the passengers and flight attendants braced for impact\, the plane desc
 ended 3\,200 feet toward the river. Eyewitnesses in the surrounding buil
 dings said it looked like a perfect three-point landing.\n\nThe son of t
 wo pilots\, Skiles started flying at the age of 16 and has logged over 2
 5\,000 hours in the sky. Skiles has spent the last 30 years as a US Airw
 ays pilot and his lifetime of experiences contributed to the astounding 
 outcome. The perfect landing was not a fluke\; it was the result of inte
 nse training\, preparation\, and the lessons learned from other pilots’ 
 successes and failures.\n\nSkiles believes that life changes all around 
 you\, and if you can’t adapt and change with it\, you can’t succeed. He 
 attributes the success of the emergency landing on the Hudson to the ext
 ensive training that all members of a flight crew experience. From the m
 echanics and the maintenance workers to the people who write the emergen
 cy protocols and the flight attendants\, he believes that every level of
  the US Airways organisation is responsible for the outcome on January 1
 5\, 2009. While he and Captain Sullenberger piloted the plane to a safe 
 landing\, the success was a group effort representing the contributions 
 of an entire organisation.\n
LOCATION:Room 701 A+B\, Level 700\, MTCC
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