Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: All
H/T to the Drudge report:

The Hero Of Flight 1549

Veteran pilot, 57, safely landed US Airways jet in Hudson River

************************EXCERPT*********************

JANUARY 15--Meet Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III, the US Airways pilot who today amazingly crash-landed a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River without any apparent fatalities. The heroic Sullenberger, 57, has worked for US Airways since 1980, and before that spent more than six years as a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot.

2 posted on 01/15/2009 3:58:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: All; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; blam; tubebender
Photos from the Smoking gun ...H/T to the Drudge Report

Pictures Of US Airways Crash

Citizen journalists capture aftermath of Hudson River jet plunge

3 posted on 01/15/2009 4:02:44 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Give Capt. Sully the “Chuck Yeager Award” !


4 posted on 01/15/2009 4:03:47 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He had the ‘Right Stuff’ !


11 posted on 01/15/2009 4:17:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson