To friends and family, he's just "Sully." To the rest of the world, Chesley Sullenberger is now a miracle worker with a pilot's license.
The former Air Force fighter pilot remained cool, calm and collected both before and after successfully ditching his US Airways flight into the Hudson River.
"That pilot is a stud," said one police source. "After the crash, he was sitting there in the ferry terminal, wearing his hat, sipping his coffee and acting like nothing happened."
Sullenberger, 57, looks more like Clark Kent than Superman: He's balding, slightly built, with a thin mustache. But he emerged from the slowly sinking fuselage of Flight 1549 as one of Gotham's brightest heroes, able to land engineless airplanes in a single try.
"Brace for impact," he warned the passengers before ditching the plane, a voice of lone calm in the seconds before they crashed.
Sullenberger wasn't done once his plane was down. He undid his safety belt and walked the length of the plane to make sure all the passengers were safely outside, Mayor Bloomberg said.
Once finished, Sullenberger turned around and made a second pass as the plane steadily took on water - and only then did he finally exit.
That's the excerpt i read from the Internet as i sipped my coffee bracing for a wet day with my golf game already cancelled.
Real heartwarming whenever you read once in awhile those silent heroes making the limelight. We have people like this in our Malaysian midst mark my word, COMPETENT in their job, always putting others before oneself and leads an ordinary but a satisfied and happy life.
They can be just firemen, postmen, plumbers or even just bus drivers but you know when you see one..a silent hero who's competent and always take their job very responsibly and a natural leader. Of course in our society it's very hard for us to appreciate such people because they don't hog the limelight like politicians do and they don t have the gift of the gab and a tendency to be melodramatic.
To Sullenburger.... am sure when interviewed you would just say ,"i am just doing my job"
Thank you sir for offering a heartwarming story to read as i braced a very wet week end!!
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