November 13, 2009 AVweb Insider Blog: Yo, Sully — A Little Credit for Airbus Here

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In his new book Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide and the "Miracle" on the Hudson, author William Langewiesche notes that Flight 1549's Chesley Sullenberger never said what he thought of the Airbus A320 and its fly-by-wire control laws. On our AVweb Insider blog, Paul Bertorelli says Langewiesche makes the convincing point that Airbus engineering had a hand in this accident's successful outcome.

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