"I also call it a miracle in St. John," he said, referring to the name of the river, "akin to the miracle in [the] Hudson with the great Captain Sully." Captain Chesley Sullenberger, or "Sully," was the captain credited with saving all 155 people aboard a plane he was forced to land in the Hudson river in 2009. "We had a contaminated runway," McGee said on Saturday. "That occurs when you have wet surfaces of about one-eighth of an inch of standing water and last night's rains in Jacksonville was about one-half of an inch of standing water in 23 minutes." Although airlines typically plan for adverse weather, McGee indicated that the rainfall happened too quickly for pilots to adequately prepare.

Source: Fox News May 04, 2019 17:03 UTC