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on January 15th
2009 an Airbus 320 piloted by Chelsea Sullenberger also known as Sulley
Took off from the LaGuardia Airport around 324 p.m. With a hundred and fifty five souls on board
the routine trip to Charlotte Douglas Airport remained uneventful for about two minutes and
That is when something terrible happened
3:27 PM the plane struck a flock of Canadian geese at an altitude of just under 3,000 feet around 4 and a half miles away from departure
when a jetliner traveling 250 miles an hour collides with these giant birds some of them weighing as much as 14 pounds
the damage can be extensive
In the case of flight 1549 both engines were critically damaged making it impossible to reach the nearest airport for an emergency landing
The plane was going down and Sully had no choice
buy to attempt a water landing in the Hudson River in less than 90 seconds after the engines shut down
The plane made an unpowered descent into the center of the river at a hundred and forty miles an hour
though many of the passengers were treated for hypothermia and minor injuries all
155 people on board survived the incident
most of them refer to the event as miraculous. But is it?
most of them refer to the event as miraculous, but is it
the basis the word miracle means that it can't be explained by natural laws and
therefore it has to be the work of
divine agency and
Everyone survived this incident and let's go over what those are right now.
Everyone survived this incident and let's go over what those are right. Now first. We have our pilot Sully. He's not only
He's not only just a really experienced pilot
But he's also an instructor and he's worked as a flight and disaster investigator Sully has spent a lot of time in a flight simulator
practicing and
Attempting different maneuvers to figure out what went wrong in other flight disasters
This is why he was able to make the right decision the one right decision he had available to him in
90 seconds
And let's look at the crew his first officer. Also incredibly skilled with the airplane, but an interesting fact
that flight
happened to be his first flight in the a20 since qualifying in flight simulators and
Then we have our flight crew
according to all accounts of the captain passengers and rescuers the
Professionally conducted their duties and performed exceptionally well just as they were trained to do.
Professionally conducted their duties and performed exceptionally. Well just as they were trained to do and
Then of course, we have the aircraft which turns out to be an incredibly safe well engineered and well maintained aircraft
So let's compare it to other
Airplanes to see how well it performs when stacked up against those if we take a look at all
airliners with the best safety records we see that for every
1 million flights less than one person has died aboard the Airbus
This puts it near the same class of aircraft as the Boeing 747 and why?
Sure, they're well engineered but so was the Concorde but let's take a look at this. So we see that in this graph
That the two safest airliners in the sky
Also have the most flight simulators dedicated to trained pilots to fly their aircraft safely
and it's not by a small margin and let's look at what the training statistics are for commercial airliners an
They wouldn't invest that kind of money into it if it didn't get results.
They wouldn't invest that kind of money into it if it didn't get was
Most airline pilots practice emergency safety procedures in flight simulators every six months
And the FAA requires between 10 and 20 hours in the flight simulator
To qualify for each new aircraft the pilot wants to fly
So given the facts we should not be surprised that everyone aboard this plane survived because this pilot made the right call
from air traffic controllers and aerospace engineers to baggage handlers the airline industry has done everything they possibly can to
train everyone as well as they can and
Engineer the best planes that they can to make sure that everyone has the best outcome
The airline industry has decided the fatal errors are simply unacceptable
given to ensure our safety we should be more surprised when
this doesn't turn out to be a happy ending.
This doesn't turn out to be a happy ending
Aviation uses simulation training because it works
It's safer to practice doing something dangerous in a simulation than it ever will be in the real world
Have you ever heard the saying we learn more from our mistakes? Well, there's a lot of truth to that
There is value in learning what not to do when there are no real-world
Repetitive practice builds proficiency and motor learning is significantly enhanced when the practice variables are manipulated
to promote cognitive effort by the learner. This is why video games get harder as you go through them
Promote cognitive effort by the learner. This is why video games get harder as you go through them
simulation software can measure every response and deliver objective analysis of a user's ability to perform and respond.
simulation software can measure every response and deliver objective analysis of a user's ability to perform and respond in
as far back as 1914 when they use it as a military gunner training
as far back as
1914 when they use it as a military gunner training
No one really paid much attention to these simulators that were used mostly in amusement parks.
That is until 1934 when the Army Air Corps lost 12 pilots in one week
No one really paid much attention to these simulators that were used mostly in amusement parks. That is until
the Army Air Corps ordered a fleet of simulators from the Link Corporation
by the end of World War II
Half-a-million pilots had received training in Link Trainers.
In the 1950s
cockpit procedural training simulators had become an FAA required standard
In the 1960s motion simulating platforms became
1950s
cockpit procedural training simulators had become an FAA required standard and in the
1960s motion simulating platforms became
Indistinguishable from aircraft flight characteristics and it's not just aviation
exactly what to do when anything goes wrong
deep-sea oil rigs nuclear power plants
Surface petroleum drilling and gas fracking operations use simulation testing and training to ensure their staff know
Exactly what to do when anything goes wrong?
Welcome to the x1 oil drilling operator training simulator
capable of simulating and evaluating all functions and
responsibilities of a drilling operator on the water
barge captain training simulator is capable of challenging sea captain's with unlimited fast balls under every
Conceivable water condition and we have the military
who's been using simulations for a very long time as well many of the vehicles they drive from tanks to Humvees to
Submersibles to drones have simulation based training programs to go along with them breach teams are given
holographic training through augmented reality
Systems our Tillery has become more accurate due to advanced simulation based training in mortar shells in calling in air strikes
soldiers are learning to deal with toxic gases on the battlefield by
Being exposed to toxic acid. Okay. It's that one. That one's on a simulation fair enough
But the fact remains the use of simulation based training as a standard qualifying requirement for certification
Is used in nearly every major industry where decision making errors result in human fatalities over
90% of all accidental deaths are caused by human error according to the CDC
accidents kill about a hundred and fifty thousand people a year a
Significant number of those deaths unsurprisingly happen on the road
about eighteen thousand of them occur in the house and a majority of those are caused by false and
unintentional poisons
This makes work safer place to spend your time then at home or in your car with only forty five hundred
fatalities on the job annually
So when we compare these to commercial flying which claimed only 79 lives in 2017
and only thirty five of those were actually onboard the aircraft as
The other 44 were fatal injuries sustained by the ground crew
we realized that a Seton business class is
Significantly safer than on your toilet seat in your bathroom given that forty thousand injuries occur live
That's only for the ones that get reported taking a selfie is more dangerous than flying to Hong Kong
and
Really that one that source is working for there's incredible stories there of people
Doing some really dumb things to take a picture of themselves
Here's the situation where 100% of fatalities that are caused by human error are 100% preventable
And
simulation based training is the most effective way to reduce those errors and and here's another correlative study if
We look at the availability of simulation based training
On the airline's its standard and at work
Its moderate but it is increasing and deaths are way down since OSHA started doing training
At the house, it's not really applicable. But maybe there's a virtual reality simulator coming
I just haven't heard about it and in cars amazingly enough it it's nearly non-existent, but there have been some studies that show
between 22 and 35 percent improvement
But even if you added up all of these preventable deaths caused by human error
there's
one industry in
particular
That Trump's them all
according to a John Hopkins study more than
250,000 American's die each year from medical errors and
If these findings are correct
That means that medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the US
just behind heart disease and cancer and
simulation-based training
Isn't a part of this industry yet. It's in its very early stages, but the early results are promising and the
Challenge here is that there is a severe shortage of content
So to put this into a proper perspective of how likely you are to be
Affected by any of these in terms of death toll if Sully were to crash a fully loaded airplane
into the wing of a major metropolitan hospital
Twice a day
For a year
He still wouldn't be able to match the carnage caused by medical errors and
Simulation based training and medicine could do so much good
Could reduce medical errors by as much as thirty eight percent and that would save almost a hundred thousand lives a year
Not to mention billions of dollars lost due to medical malpractice
first. We have our pilot Sully. He's not only
we at Ghost productions are
Excited to pioneer this new field and make a huge difference and improve healthcare for everyone