[Rhodes22-list] Re member brother Brad when you think of this

[TN Rhodey]

Ed, In a way the passengers were lucky to have "Sully" as their Pilot that
day. Amazing!

Fair winds,

Wally

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

>
> As most of you know, Brad is an experience pilot.  Most recently spent most
> of his time training newbies.  As a child barnstormer he did some naughty
> things.  Some of you will remember his plane with horses on fire.  In a
> tight situation some pilots have it.
>
> Now read the background of the pilot on yesterdays Hudson River incident:
>
> Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot
> Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:34 PM EST
> The Associated Press
> By AMY WESTFELDT Associated Press Writer
>
> NEW YORK (AP) — The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely
> into the Hudson River — saving all 155 people aboard — became an instant
> hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club
> online.
>
> The pilot of Flight 1549 was Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, 57, of
> Danville, Calif., an official familiar with the accident told The
> Associated
> Press. Sullenberger is a former fighter pilot who runs a safety consulting
> firm in addition to flying commercial aircraft.
>
> Sullenberger, who has flown for US Airways since 1980, flew F-4 fighter
> jets
> with the Air Force in the 1970s. He then served on a board that
> investigated
> aircraft accidents and participated later in several National
> Transportation
> Safety Board investigations.
>
> Sullenberger had been studying the psychology of keeping airline crews
> functioning even in the face of crisis, said Robert Bea, a civil engineer
> who co-founded UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management.
>
> Bea said he could think of few pilots as well-situated to bring the plane
> down safely than Sullenberger.
>
> "When a plane is getting ready to crash with a lot of people who trust you,
> it is a test.. Sulley proved the end of the road for that test. He had
> studied it, he had rehearsed it, he had taken it to his heart."
>
> Sullenberger is president of Safety Reliability Methods, a California firm
> that uses "the ultra-safe world of commercial aviation" as a basis for
> safety consulting in other fields, according to the firm's Web site.
>
> Sullenberger's mailbox at the firm was full on Thursday. A group of fans
> sprang up on Facebook within hours of the emergency landing.
>
> "OMG, I am terrified of flying but I would be happy to be a passenger on
> one
> of your aircraft!!" Melanie Wills in Bristol wrote on the wall of "Fans of
> Sully Sullenberger." "You have saved a lot of peoples lives and are a true
> hero!!"
>
> The pilot "did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then
> making sure that everybody got out," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "He
> walked the plane twice after everybody else was off, and tried to verify
> that there was nobody else on board, and he assures us there was not."
>
> "He was the last one up the aisle and he made sure that there was nobody
> behind him."
>
> Gov. David Paterson pronounced it a "miracle on the Hudson."
>
> A woman who answered the phone at Sullenberger's home in Danville hung up
> on
> a reporter who asked to speak with the family.
>
> Candace Anderson, a member of the Danville town council who lives a few
> blocks from Sullenberger, said it was an amazing story and she was proud to
> live in the same town as the pilot.
>
> "You look at his training, you look at his experience. It was just the
> right
> pilot at the right time in charge of that plane that saved so many lives,"
> Anderson said. "He is a man who is calm, cool, collected, just as he was
> today."
>
> Sullenberger's co-pilot was Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US
> Airways veteran.
>
> "He was OK," said his wife, Barbara. "He was relieved that everybody got
> off."
>
> posted by Ed K
>
>
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