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After Emergency Landing, Passengers Hail 'Our Capt. Sully'
Sept. 27) -- When they were circling the wrong airport, they knew something was amiss.
So Alessandro Albero picked up a cell phone and started filming the frightening scene on Delta Connection Flight 4951. At first, Albero and his friend Chase Benzenberg weren't that concerned.
"We circled for a good 20 minutes. We were joking around with each other saying, 'I don't know if he knows where the landing strip is,'" Albero told CNN's "American Morning."
Moments later, though, pilot Jack Conroyd told them to "brace for impact" and "prepare for the worst." The right wheel of the plane was malfunctioning, and the aircraft, bound for White Plains, N.Y., Saturday evening, would have to make an emergency landing at New York's JFK airport.
On the tape, a flight attendant can be heard yelling, "heads down, stay down, heads down, stay down" again and again, and sparks fly as the plane's wing grazes the runway. But no one was hurt, and passengers say it was a relatively smooth landing that could have ended in disaster. Today, they're calling Conroyd, a former Navy pilot, a hero.
"He was our Capt. Sully," one passenger, John Predham, told the New York Daily News in a reference to Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who safely crash-landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson river in January 2009.
Sullenberger also praised the impressive landing. "I commend the crew for ensuring a successful outcome for everyone on board," he told the News.
Benzenberg told CNN that the flight attendant's anxious instructions "made it more intense than I think it was." But Albero said it was a dramatic situation. "The pilot did a wonderful job. We came down and, you know, the plane tipped slightly and the sparks came out. You guys saw the video. It was pretty intense. But they did a wonderful job."
The pilot's mother agrees. "I think he really was a hero," Conroyd's mom, 84-year-old Hazel Conroyd, told the New York Post.
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Sept. 27) -- When they were circling the wrong airport, they knew something was amiss.
So Alessandro Albero picked up a cell phone and started filming the frightening scene on Delta Connection Flight 4951. At first, Albero and his friend Chase Benzenberg weren't that concerned.
"We circled for a good 20 minutes. We were joking around with each other saying, 'I don't know if he knows where the landing strip is,'" Albero told CNN's "American Morning."
Moments later, though, pilot Jack Conroyd told them to "brace for impact" and "prepare for the worst." The right wheel of the plane was malfunctioning, and the aircraft, bound for White Plains, N.Y., Saturday evening, would have to make an emergency landing at New York's JFK airport.
On the tape, a flight attendant can be heard yelling, "heads down, stay down, heads down, stay down" again and again, and sparks fly as the plane's wing grazes the runway. But no one was hurt, and passengers say it was a relatively smooth landing that could have ended in disaster. Today, they're calling Conroyd, a former Navy pilot, a hero.
"He was our Capt. Sully," one passenger, John Predham, told the New York Daily News in a reference to Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who safely crash-landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson river in January 2009.
Sullenberger also praised the impressive landing. "I commend the crew for ensuring a successful outcome for everyone on board," he told the News.
Benzenberg told CNN that the flight attendant's anxious instructions "made it more intense than I think it was." But Albero said it was a dramatic situation. "The pilot did a wonderful job. We came down and, you know, the plane tipped slightly and the sparks came out. You guys saw the video. It was pretty intense. But they did a wonderful job."
The pilot's mother agrees. "I think he really was a hero," Conroyd's mom, 84-year-old Hazel Conroyd, told the New York Post.
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