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Who is Sully Sullenberger III

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Answer: He Is a Skilled Pilot And One of Many Who Worked to Save Lives

Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III deserves all the praise we can give him. He is a hero. I have read people object to that. They say that he was doing only doing his job, doing it extremely well, but that that does not make a hero. I appreciate those who are concerned that we throw around the word too easily, thus lessening its value.

However, I think this man is a hero for two important reasons. He was able to do this job because of the years that he spent preparing to do something that he might never have been called to do. He is also a hero because he has been quiet since it happened and I will bet a lot that when he meets with Matt Lauer on Today he will credit all the others who helped. er

However, here is what Captain Sullenberger III did to prepare:

1. He made meticulous airplane models, using that to learn minute details about the craft.

2. He got his pilot's license at age 14.

3. He flew fighter jets in the Air Force

4. He investigated air disasters, sitting on and heading committees

5. He mastered glider flying

6. He studied the psychology of how cockpit crews behave in a crisis.

7. He set up a business to investigate and teach about the best crisis behavior for pilots and crews

Want to know more? Read this:

A Tribute to Captain Sullenberger

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Quick, what do you think of Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III?

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Three Groups Who Helped Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III

Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III is a great man and a great pilot. He deserves the respect and adolation that he is getting. All of it. However, he is not the only hero of the events of January 15, 2009.

1. The crew. Captain Sullenberger had a co-pilot. This man had to be there, be co-operative and ready to help.

There was a flight attendant, whose arm was broken. She stopped passengers from opening the back door, had they opened it the plane would have gone down quickly perhaps with all aboard. People tend to think of flight attendants as being servants. The fact is that they are highly skilled and trained to save lives. This woman did.

2. The other passengers. The plane was emptied in less than two minutes. This happened because of the crew, but also because the passengers did not panic. They helped each other. Those who thought to open the back door, listened to and obeyed the attendant

3. The crews and passengers of the local ferries. The captains immediately went to the site of the plane, the passengers, calmly did helped. As one said, "We just did what we could. The men helped people onto the ferry and the women helped them get warm. "

I think it is very meaningful that this happened just 5 days before Barack Obama became president. Obama is calling for all Americans to work together. As a community organized, he expects that everyone pitch in, not sit back and expect the government to do it. Obama wants people aware, educated and active. This incident, with its emphasis on cooperation is symbolic of the new administration.

A Passenger Talks About Everyone Who Helped, Including the Crew and Crew and Passengers of the Ferries

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5 white-knuckled minutes aboard Flight 1549

By DAVID B. CARUSO - 4 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) - The birds flew majestically, in perfect formation, and the co-pilot saw them coming.

For a moment, it looked like they would pass beneath US Airways Flight 1549, but when Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger looked up, they were there in his windscreen. Big. Dark brown. Lots of them.

His first instinct was to duck.

Then there were thumps, a burning smell, and silence as both jet engines cut out.

For a moment, the Airbus A320 hung in the sky 3,000 feet above the Bronx, its engines knocked so completely dead that one flight attendant said it sounded like being in a library.

Investigators provided this dramatic new description Saturday of what unfolded on the flight in the five brief minutes between its takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday and its textbook splashdown in the Hudson River.

To read the rest of the story click this link: A Great Story

Captain Sully Sullenberger's Family

He is just Dad to them, they aren't surprised by what happened.
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Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III and Matt Lauer: Today, January 19, 2009

Margo_Arrowsmith predicts:

I predict that Captain Sullenberger Will Credit Many Others for the Sucessful Saving of Lives

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drifter0658 predicts:

Sully will avoid taking all the credit.

OhMe predicts:

He did his job and did it well and will credit all involved.

mukunda22 predicts:

"Sully" doesn't think that what he did was heroic. He just did what he thought he had to do.

predicts:

I predict that you are correct!

 
 
 

Many Thanks To JulCal for the Pictures. Don't Forget to Visit Her Lenses!

Check at the bottom of this lens. You will see the most amazing pictures. Flight 1549 makes its last journey through New Rutherford, New Jersey.

Katie Couric Scoops Matt Lauer

Originally, Matt Lauer was going to get the first interview with Sully. However, because the investigation was on going at the scheduled time, January 19. Now Katie Couric will interview Sully on February 8, 2009 for 60 Minutes.

Read more here. Good article, but you have to wonder who picked that picture of Katie and what she ever did to that person.

60 Minutes

More from Margo's Salon

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Lots of Great Information About Captain Sullenberger: Be Sure to Read This

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Sully Sullenberger's Own Story

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Shout Out For Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III and Everyone Else Who Contributed to This Happy Ending!!

I think that getting back to this kind of participation is what America is all about. What do you think?

  • CastleRoy Jun 7, 2011 @ 12:50 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens i must say I think he is a hero and inspiration
  • ChrisDay May 6, 2011 @ 8:07 am | delete
    Great lens about a great man who, while doing his job correctly, did so when I doubt many others could. He thought 'on the wing' and made correct decisions all the way, plus being technically 'bang-on'.
  • the777group Jan 4, 2011 @ 5:09 pm | delete
    This is a terrific lens but alas I'm not of that persuasion, believing that Sully was merely doing his job (brilliantly) - instead, I hail him as a great professional and an inspiration to all. Are we merely fencing with semantics, here?
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Mar 19, 2009 @ 1:45 pm | in reply to drifter0658 | delete
    Well, of course Drifter.

    And if course as the execs think they deserve more and more money, the pilot's and others' pay is shrinking. Those people should be glad that Sully choose to take a huge pay cut rather than leave his post to less experienced pilots. . They laughed when Mike Moore when he said that and now they ignored Sully for saying it to concentrate instead on the drama! When will they wake up?
  • drifter0658 Mar 19, 2009 @ 7:35 am | delete
    Spectacular. I agree, the man IS a hero for not just saving the lives of everyone aboard the plane, but for the way he has handled himself.

    Training and preparing himself for the worst case scenario was pretty spectacular as well. We human tend to be like ostriches at times.

    As usual, excellent job Margo.
  • julcal Mar 18, 2009 @ 9:20 pm | delete
    FABULOUS pictures !!!!

    can you imagine seeing that ?
  • d-artist Jan 31, 2009 @ 8:35 am | delete
    Margo, well done lens...thanks for stopping by my "Sully" lens. I saw this lens the other day and forgot to leave a comment...I will also lensroll you to my "Capt. Sullenberger" lens...never enough hero acknowledgments...as far as passangers suing, it is beyond belief the greedy and selfish people like that exsist... i know that this will not be a positive in their lives after having been spared(life) to show graditude like this, is not favorable in our human eyes and/or in Gods eyes JMO...5*
  • OhMe Jan 26, 2009 @ 2:57 am | delete
    Wonderful and very well done. I really like that you mentioned the passengers. If they had panicked the outcome would have been totally different.
  • julcal Jan 24, 2009 @ 10:59 am | delete
    "what Katie ever DID to that person" I want to know what she was "DOING" to that person :)

    ~ Julie :)
  • mukunda22 Jan 20, 2009 @ 7:49 am | delete
    Thanks for putting this together. #5 and fav!!
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During one of the many interviews concerning this event, two commentators were talking about the fact that the river landing had been captured by a certain camera. They showed a picture of the camera, without mentioning a name, but guess what, it was the flip camera.

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Table of Contents

  1. A Tribute to Captain Sullenberger
  2. Quick, what do you think of Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III?
  3. Three Groups Who Helped Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III
  4. A Passenger Talks About Everyone Who Helped, Including the Crew and Crew and Passengers of the Ferries
  5. 5 white-knuckled minutes aboard Flight 1549
  6. Captain Sully Sullenberger's Family
  7. Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III and Matt Lauer: Today, January 19, 2009
  8. Many Thanks To JulCal for the Pictures. Don't Forget to Visit Her Lenses!
  9. Katie Couric Scoops Matt Lauer
  10. More from Margo's Salon
  11. Lots of Great Information About Captain Sullenberger: Be Sure to Read This
  12. Sully Sullenberger's Own Story
  13. Shout Out For Chelsey B. (Sully) Sullenberger III and Everyone Else Who Contributed to This Happy Ending!!
  14. Don't Leave Home Without This Camera
  16. An Old Soldier Goes Home
  17. Slow Moving
  18. Rounding the Corner
  19. Parade Down Main Street
  20. Truckin' Along
  21. Keep Going
  22. Sad and Scarey
  23. The Last Trip for Flight 1549 Took A Long Day's Journey Into Night
  24. Changing the Guard Blog
  25. Get Your Free Report: "What You Must Know to Hire a Home Health Aid"
  26. About Margo Arrowsmith

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