NASHUA, NH – Nashua Flight Simulator, an aviation flight simulation training company, recently assisted Boston's WBZ-TV Channel 4 News understand what might have been going on in the cockpit of the USAirways flight 1459 during the Jan. 15 airline accident.
Nashua Flight Simulator owner Stephen Cunningham, along with his instructors, recreated the flight for WBZ's reporter Karen Anderson. Using available radar data posted on FlightAware.com to simulate the flightpath, Nashua Flight Simulator’s instructors were able to demonstrate rather accurately what likely went on in the decision making of the USAirways flight crew. They showed what external information likely led the pilot to respond with "unable" twice to Air Traffic Control's instructions to return to La Guardia field or to divert to Teterboro airport in northern New Jersey.
"The recreated illustration of the 'miracle flight' allowed the WBZ-TV news crew and their viewers to see how this story played out in front of this heroic air crew," says Cunningham. "It displayed the epitome of cool under the most stressful of circumstances. Clearly training for the unexpected in flight simulators enables pilots of any size aircraft to handle these emergencies with the calm, precise, and measured decisions and judgments that this flight crew executed so bravely."
For more information or to watch a video of this demonstration visit www.nashuaflightsimulator.com.
