Posted on 10/01/2009 10:18:16 AM PDT by WVKayaker
Hudson Hero 'Sully' Sullenberger Returns to New York Skies: Watch Live
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Video not on live right now. replay soon. Flight is from NY to Charlotte, to arrive around 3:30 EDT. A news conference is expected. The head of US Air is aboard the sold-out plane. No other flights were sold out today.
Go Sully!
While I have great admiration for Capt Sully, our troops languish in Afghanistan waiting for that idiot in the White House to make a decision, the state run media is organismic over this event.
NEW YORK — Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger took to the skies in New York City Thursday for the first time since January’s heroic Hudson River emergency landing.
Jeff Skiles, his co-pilot at the time, was in the cockpit with him as they left to fly the New York-Charlotte, N.C., route that US Airways Flight 1549 was traveling Jan. 15 when a bird strike forced the crew to bring the plane down in the river.
The 1:10 p.m. takeoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport went smoothly before the jet flew over the Hudson River again and disappeared into the clouds.
“Sully’s rolling again,” an air traffic controller could be heard saying as the plane taxied down the runway for takeoff. ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558364,00.html
And like my father, who is also a commercial pilot, was saying, the next story we read will be “Newspaper cameraman killed in freak accident after being run over by Sully’s plane while standing in the middle of the tarmac trying to get a shot of the plane landing.” For god’s sake people, yes the man is a hero for what he did, not taking anything away from him, but just leave the man alone and let him get back to flying.
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