That's why Sully is probably the greatest hero of the century so far. Who else has ever saved everyone in a plane crash? Or ever will again, perhaps.
I know Chelsey Sullenberger. He is a nice man, and a good pilot. What he did was great, but that does not make him a hero. A hero runs into a burning building, or steps intentionally into the line of fire.
Sully did what any pilot would do, saved himself, thereby saving the aircraft. Any good pilot could have done it with the similar result. Even an average pilot would have made similar choices and it come out better than an impact into buildings.
To those of us that know him, we congratulated him, and then called him a very lucky man... And we laughed out loud when news readers made a point that he had also been a sail plane pilot (as if that makes a difference in a powerless 140,000 Airbus).
The “Gimli Glider” comes pretty close. In Canada, during the transition from imperial to metric measurements, a jetliner ran out of fuel because litres were confused for gallons. Good thing that the pilot had flown gliders and got the jet to coast to the nearest runway.