Friday 16 January 2009

Chesley Sullenberger Video - Pilot Flight 1549

SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS CAPTURE NEW YORK HUDSON RIVER FLIGHT 1549 CRASH!

Thursday 15 January 2009

Hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger III - Pilot Flight 1549

HERO! HERO! HERO! God Bless You and Your Crew!

About Chesley Sullenberger

Pilot Flight 1549 - A True US Hero! The man who saved all aboard the US Airways airplane that crashed in Hudson River on 15-01-2009

Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III is a captain for a major U.S. airline with over 40 years of flying experience. A former U.S. Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot, he has served as an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member. He has participated in several USAF and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident investigations.

His ALPA safety work led to the development of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular. Working with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists, he coauthored a paper on error inducing contexts in aviation. He was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Crew Resource Management (CRM) course used at his airline and has taught the course to hundreds of his colleagues.

Sully is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (B.S.), Purdue University (M.S.) and the University of Northern Colorado (M.A.). He was a speaker on two panels at the High Reliability Organizations (HRO) 2007 International Conference in Deauville, France May 29-31, 2007. He has just been named a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Source: http://safetyreliability.com/about_us