Mutyairi wendege akarumbidza kumhara ndege yakaremara paHudson River muNew York mwedzi wapera akati kuderedzwa kwemitengo muindasitiri yendege yekuUS kunogona kukanganisa kuchengetedzeka kwevatyairi uye mhando yevatyairi vanohaya vatakuri.
"Ndiri kutyira kuti basa rekutyaira ndege harisi kuzokwanisa kuenderera mberi nekukwezva vakanakisa uye vakapenya," Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, kaputeni weUS Airways Group Inc., akaudza vamiriri vemitemo muhuchapupu nhasi.
Ndege dzanga dzichiita mabasa ekugadzirisa kudonha kwekuda kwekufamba panguva yekuderera kwehupfumi, uye Sullenberger akati mubhadharo wake wakaderedzwa makumi mana muzana mumakore achangopfuura. The Jan. 40 ditching, umo vose vari mundege vakapona, inoratidza kudiwa kwekudzidziswa uye ruzivo rwekuti zvipingamupinyi zvinogona kukanganisa, Sullenberger akati.
Panogona kunge paine "mhedzisiro yakaipa kune veruzhinji vanobhururuka uye kunyika yedu" kana ndege dzikaedzwa nevashoma vane ruzivo uye "zvisina kukwana" vatyairi vanokosheswa, akadaro.
"Chiitiko chazvino uye hunyanzvi hwevatyairi vendege vemunyika yedu vane hunyanzvi hunobva mukudyara kwakaitwa makore apfuura apo takakwanisa kukwezva vanhu vaneshungu, vane matarenda avo vanogara vachitsvaga mabasa anobhadhara" kumwewo, Sullenberger akadaro.
Sullenberger nevashandi vakarondedzera kumhara kuCongress, sezvakaita Patrick Harten, mutongi wemutyairi wendege aibata zvekusimuka kubva kunhandare yendege yeLaGuardia yeNew York apo ndege yakaburuka.
Kukosha Kwokurovedza
Harten akati aifunga kuti jeti nevafambi vayo vakarasika apo Sullenberger akazivisa kuti aizoedza kumhara mvura.
"Vanhu havapone pavanomhara paRwizi rweHudson," akadaro Harten. "Ndakatenda panguva iyoyo kuti ndaizova munhu wekupedzisira kutaura nemunhu wese mundege iyi ndiri mupenyu."
Ndege yeUS Airways, yakatakura vanhu zana nemakumi mashanu nevashanu, yakapera simba mushure mekusimuka. National Transportation Safety Board yakati mwedzi uno kuti masara eCanada-goose akawanikwa mumainjini ese ari maviri, achitsigira zvakataurwa nevatyairi kuti ndege yakarova shiri. Nhengo yeNTSB, VaSteven Chealander, vakati sangano iri rinogona kunge risingazive kuti ndege yakarova shiri ngani.
"Chiitiko ichi chinoratidza kukosha kwekudzidziswa nekugadzirira," akadaro Sachigaro weHouse Aviation Subcommittee Jerry Costello, weIllinois Democrat. Costello nedzimwe nhengo dzedare vakarumbidza vashandi nezviito zvavo paHudson.
Sullenberger, makumi mashanu nemasere, akashanda kuTempe, Arizona-based US Airways kubva 58, sekureva kwewebhusaiti yendege. Aimbova mutyairi weAir Force fighter.
"Iwe unomiririra yakanakisa yendege," akadaro James Oberstar, sachigaro wekomiti yezvekufambisa yeImba uye Minnesota Democrat. "Lindbergh angadada newe."
Pay Cuts
US Airways yakamhan'arira kubhuroka kweChitsauko 11 muna 2002 ikabuda padziviriro yedare muna 2003. Yakamhan'ara kubhuroka kechipiri munaGunyana 2004, ikabuda munaGunyana 2005 kuburikidza nekubatanidzwa kwayo neAmerica West Holdings Corp.
US Airways yakamisa hurongwa hwayo hwepenjeni muna 2005, isati yasiya kubhuroka, uye Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. yakava trustee yezvirongwa izvi. Ndege yakawana mari inodarika bhiriyoni imwe chete yemadhora pagore pabasa, muhoro uye kuderedzwa kubva kumibatanidzwa yayo ichiri kubhuroka.
"Mubhadharo wangu wakaderedzwa ne40 muzana," Sullenberger akadaro. "Penjeni yangu, seyakawanda yepenjeni yendege, yakamiswa uye yakatsiviwa nePBGC garandi inokwana masendi chete padhora."
Pilot Earnings
Kaputeni weUS Airways pamubhadharo wepamusoro uye anobhururuka neAirbus SAS A320 anowana mubhadharo wepasi inosvika madhora zana nemakumi maviri neshanu paawa uye anobhururuka mashoma emaawa makumi manomwe nemaviri pamwedzi, nemadhora zviuru mazana mapfumbamwe pamwedzi, sekureva kweairlinepilotcentral.com, iyo inobatsira vatyairi nekusimudzira basa. . Mupurisa wekutanga wemakore gumi nemaviri ari mundege imwe cheteyo anowana madhora makumi masere nemashanu paawa, kana madhora matanhatu negumi nemakumi maviri pamwedzi. Vatyairi vendege hombe panzira dzepasi rose vanobhadharwa nemari yepamusoro.
Vatakuri 9 vakuru veUS vakafamba gore rapfuura kuti vavhure majeti mazana mana nemakumi matanhatu uye vakagura mabasa zviuru makumi maviri nematanhatu sezvo mitengo yemafuta yakakwira kusvika rekodhi. Mutengo wemafuta ejeti, ayo akacheneswa kubva mutsvina, wadzikira nezvikamu makumi manomwe nezviviri kubva muzana kubva pakakwirira muna Chikunguru, zvichikurudzira fungidziro yevanoongorora kuti purofiti yakaitwa muna 460 ingave yekutanga indasitiri mukuderera kwehupfumi.
Neparutivi, aimbove muongorori mukuru weDhipatimendi rekutakura akati vamiriri veUS vakaratidza "bureaucratic inertia" mukutadza kuita kurudziro yekuchengetedzwa kwendege, kusanganisira idzo dziri paturboprops uye icing.
Mary Schiavo, parizvino gweta reboka revamiriri vekuchengetedza vanoronga kumhan'arira Federal Aviation Administration yebazi, vakati vatongi vakamira pamatanho angadai akabatsira kudzivirira tsaona. Kutsoropodza uku, kunopokana nesangano iri, kunouya pasina mavhiki maviri mushure mekunge ndege yePinnacle Airlines Corp. yadzika munzvimbo ine chando pedyo neBuffalo, New York, ikauraya vanhu makumi mashanu.
Nyaya yekuda kumanikidza FAA kuti iite maererano nekurudziro yeNational Transportation Safety Board ichakwidzwa nhasi kudare remubatanidzwa muWashington, Schiavo akadaro nezuro.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- A US Airways captain at top pay scale and flying an Airbus SAS A320 earns base pay of at least $125 an hour and flies a minimum of 72 hours a month, for $9,000 a month, according to airlinepilotcentral.
- The price of jet fuel, which is refined from crude, has plunged 72 percent since a July peak, spurring analysts' estimates for a collective 2009 profit that would be the industry's first in a recession.
- Airlines have been paring jobs to cope with a drop in travel demand during the recession, and Sullenberger said his pay has been trimmed 40 percent in recent years.
