Plane Bites Dog
The plane that lands safely isn’t supposed to be news. Landing in the water, when the hero pilot manages to bring it down in one piece without hitting anything, is another story. Maybe it should be pilot bites public’s imagination. Good news hungry American can’t get enough. UPDATED:
WSJ: Praise heaped for rare, challenging feat … successful water landing
LA Times: Sullenberger gets a Facebook fan club.
CNN: “The right guy at the right time.”
Newsday: Sully celebrated everywhere as a hero.
Montreal Gazette: “It wasn’t heroics” … for Sully, the extreme was normal.
USA Today: Wife, daughters “very proud of dad.” Bush speaks with, praises hero pilot.
CBS has an expert claiming planes are designed for crash-worthiness. I dunno. It’s one thing to slide off the runwau, but they don’t seem to do so well dropping out of the sky.
What did I tell you. We live in a time of miracles. As the Other McCain notes, it helps to have good staff … even Obama knows that … and in this case, there was an expert in crisis piloting in the cockpit of Flt 1549. He’s also got the pilot’s email. Fausta, invite him to the Inaug! I’ll be amazed if that doesn’t happen. Here we go: CBS, pilot, family going to the Inaug.
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Gateway’s got your amazing splashdown vid.
Hotair’s got your hero pilot family vid.
Topics: ground views
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:08 am Comments (3) on Friday, January 16, 2009
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January 16th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
The plane was hardly down before some news sites started carping that planes are designed to glide and practically land themselves. Anything to avoid giving an upstanding, honor-and-duty type his due.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Yeah, well, I was convinced Obama did it, so I can’t really talk.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
The press tries to define the miracle as a remarkable Omen prelude of God’s Blessings towards Obama’s presidency!
Thus, the Almighty send his Army of Angels to land the plane safely on the Hudson River!……..
Unspoken laudably:
The Hero Pilot, Among all noble men, most Richly Blessed.
Yeah, …With God,
All things are possible.
Especially at time of unrest and bits of contemptment.