Forty-Two Years for Two Hundred Eight Seconds
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had been flying for forty-two years. He started in a Cessna 172 at age sixteen, flew F-4...
This is a contemporary on calm in crisis and preparation, drawing on Psalm 46:1-2.
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had been flying for forty-two years. He started in a Cessna 172 at age sixteen, flew F-4 Phantoms for the United States Air Force, and logged over nineteen thousand hours in the cockpit. He studied aviation safety for decades, even investigating accidents to understand what went wrong and why. Then came two hundred eight seconds that demanded every bit of it.…
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