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US Airways pilot recalled as ‘smart kid’
1/16/2009 8:04 AM
By: Associated Press
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river.
DENISON — The pilot who safely landed a disabled US Airways jet into the Hudson River is a 1969 graduate of Denison High School.
Fellow Texans who know 57-year-old Chesley Sullenberger III said they’re not surprised at his heroism.
Kathy Coulter of Denison also graduated in 1969 and said she went on to teach with Sullenberger’s mother.
Coulter told the Sherman Herald Democrat that she’s not surprised that her classmate would be able to have the skills that it takes to do that.
Denison Mayor Robert Brady remembers the man he knew as “Bernie” as one of the “smart kids” who got his pilot’s license at 14.
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river. Authorities are looking into whether birds were sucked into the engines.
— Sullenberger, who now lives in Danville, Calif., is a former fighter pilot who also runs a safety consulting firm. He’s been with US Airways nearly 30 years.
— Sullenberger’s co-pilot was 49-year-old Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran.
US Airways pilot recalled as ‘smart kid’
1/16/2009 8:04 AM
By: Associated Press
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river.
DENISON — The pilot who safely landed a disabled US Airways jet into the Hudson River is a 1969 graduate of Denison High School.
Fellow Texans who know 57-year-old Chesley Sullenberger III said they’re not surprised at his heroism.
Kathy Coulter of Denison also graduated in 1969 and said she went on to teach with Sullenberger’s mother.
Coulter told the Sherman Herald Democrat that she’s not surprised that her classmate would be able to have the skills that it takes to do that.
Denison Mayor Robert Brady remembers the man he knew as “Bernie” as one of the “smart kids” who got his pilot’s license at 14.
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river. Authorities are looking into whether birds were sucked into the engines.
— Sullenberger, who now lives in Danville, Calif., is a former fighter pilot who also runs a safety consulting firm. He’s been with US Airways nearly 30 years.
— Sullenberger’s co-pilot was 49-year-old Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran.
US Airways pilot recalled as ‘smart kid’
1/16/2009 8:04 AM
By: Associated Press
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river.
DENISON — The pilot who safely landed a disabled US Airways jet into the Hudson River is a 1969 graduate of Denison High School.
Fellow Texans who know 57-year-old Chesley Sullenberger III said they’re not surprised at his heroism.
Kathy Coulter of Denison also graduated in 1969 and said she went on to teach with Sullenberger’s mother.
Coulter told the Sherman Herald Democrat that she’s not surprised that her classmate would be able to have the skills that it takes to do that.
Denison Mayor Robert Brady remembers the man he knew as “Bernie” as one of the “smart kids” who got his pilot’s license at 14.
All 155 people on Flight 1549 from New York’s La Guardia Airport to Charlotte, N.C., survived after being rescued from the river. Authorities are looking into whether birds were sucked into the engines.
— Sullenberger, who now lives in Danville, Calif., is a former fighter pilot who also runs a safety consulting firm. He’s been with US Airways nearly 30 years.
— Sullenberger’s co-pilot was 49-year-old Jeff Skiles, 49, of Oregon, Wis., a 23-year US Airways veteran.