Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder This guy? <a href="http://herokids.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/sully.jpg" target="_blank">http://herokids.files.wordpres...ully.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Is this him? Google images says so. Rather dashing, no? <a href="http://safetyreliability.com/y..._std.jpg" target="_blank">http://safetyreliability.com/y..._std.jpg</a> > Yep, that's him. He's all over the papers here in NYC today, obviously. And yeah, if I stepped on an airplane and heard "your pilot today is Charles Sullenberger," I'd feel pretty good (and kind of privileged).
Originally Posted By retlawfan I wonder if you can request a particular pilot when you book a flight? Worth a try...
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Finally, a guy WORTHY of his 15 minutes of fame gets it. I get so tired of seeing it go to guys like Joe the Plumber. Somehow I think Sullenberger's fame will probably last more than 15 minutes. The man was extraordinarily accomplished to begin with... now people know about him.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I wonder if you can request a particular pilot when you book a flight? Worth a try... >>> How about TWA Flight 800, the one that exploded shortly after take-off in the mid-90's off of Long Island: I wonder how many passengers took it as a bad omen when it was announced that Captain Kevorkian was in command?
Originally Posted By Ursula It is so warm and fuzzy-feeling to hear some the of first responders. One guy who drove a ferry (or is that fairy? ha) said he didn't do anything much, he just drove the ferry and his deckhands did the heroic stuff. Then the deckhands say they didn't do much but the guy driving the boat did all of the good work to position them correctly.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 reading that resume I suddenly feel like I've done little with my life -- I think they need to replace the guy on the Dos Equis 'most interesting man in the world' commercials with this guy
Originally Posted By mstaft Our friends' son and his girlfriend were on the flight. It is a miracle they are alive. The Denver Post has an interview with her. (I also blogged it for my family to see.) Mark www.InsightsandSounds.blogspot.com
Originally Posted By beamerdog Sullenberger's co-pilot was Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/9ranr8" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/9ranr8</a> >>Jeffrey Skiles' mother, 81-year-old Deloris Skiles of Verona, told The Associated Press she talked to her son briefly on Thursday night and again Friday for about five minutes. He sounded tired, she said. "Don't you think it would shake you up?" she said. She credited the pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, with landing the plane. "It all happened so fast. The captain is the captain of the ship. He makes the decision on what to do," Deloris Skiles said. "He realized they were going down. There was a nice open place in front of them to land -- the Hudson. There were no ferries, so he put it down." After the crash, Jeffrey Skiles found life preservers and handed them to passengers who were standing on the plane's wing waiting to be rescued. "I know he did everything he could," his mother said. "He's a modest fellow and a very modest man." She said she saw a passenger interviewed on TV who said the pilot had given him his shirt after they got out of the plane. Based on the number of stripes on the sleeve, she said it appeared to be her son's shirt. "I'm worried about him, that he doesn't even have a jacket," she said. Jeffrey Skiles, 49, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught at a now defunct Madison flight school, his mother said. He started flying when was 15-years-old, said his father, James J. Skiles. The co-pilot's wife, Barbara Skiles, said she didn't hear about what happened until her husband called Thursday to tell her he was all right. By Friday morning, she was tiring of all the attention and just wanted to resume taking down her Christmas tree and running errands. She took her phone off the hook to stop the calls. The last time she talked to her husband was Thursday night when he called from his hotel, Barbara Skiles said. He was wearing the same clothes that he had been rescued in and they were still wet, several hours after the crash, she said. "Someone was kind enough to give him clean underwear," she said. But otherwise, her husband planned to put on the same pilot's uniform Friday. He didn't talk about his role in the crash, Barbara Skiles said, and she doesn't know when he'll talk to investigators. Deloris Skiles said her son told her he had been flying with the pilot since Monday. Both Deloris Skiles and her husband were licensed pilots and flew single-engine recreational airplanes. Jeff and his two brothers rode with them frequently while growing up, she said.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder What I think is nice is that the pilots haven't allowed themselves to be trotted out to the press and put on display. They've stayed out of the limelight. It's indicative of the idea that they felt they were just doing their jobs, and what they did was what was expected of them, nothing more. I find that refreshing that they haven't been manipulated, and that someone like Larry King hasn't been able to ask them some inane questions, making everyone uncomfortable. The night of the incident, King actually had Dr. Phil McGraw on his show because McGraw is a pilot. THAT'S farcical television.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I am not 100% sure what station I was watching as I was switching to catch the latest - but I do believe it was FOX -- whose hosts made the comment more than once that one upside to all the job cuts was the fact that the best pilots were still on the job. 1. How the hell do they know the best were kept 2. What an ignorant comment for anyone watching who has lost a job in the last 18 months - you know 6 million or so Can someone confirm this was FOX
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Originally Posted By mawnck >>I find that refreshing that they haven't been manipulated<< So ... no Fox war correspondent in Israel gig for them, huh.
Originally Posted By dshyates "Sully" and crew are not allowed to talk to the media until the FAA finishes their investigation.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda Actually, "Sully" will be on Monday's Today Show from Washington. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28708381/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28708381/</a>
Originally Posted By DAR This makes one believe that God is out there and "Sully" is one of his angels.
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