{"id":4424,"date":"2009-02-03T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2009-02-03T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:47:48","slug":"free_sully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/free_sully.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Sully!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again America — don’t Wesley Autrey the poor man<\/a>. He’s done enough<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sullenberger said that when both engines on the Charlotte, NC-bound jet conked out after takeoff from La Guardia Airport — investigators say a double bird strike caused both engines to shut down — the feeling of total silence was “shocking.” <\/p>\n

“It was very quiet as we worked, my co-pilot and I,” he said, slowly relating the heart-pounding moments. <\/p>\n

“We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking — the silence.” <\/p>\n

Then prodded to relate his feelings as he dealt with zero power and a split-second decision about how and where to land, Sully said simply: <\/p>\n

“Calm on the outside, turmoil inside.” <\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Of the entire experience, Sully kept telling ESPN it was simply “surreal.” <\/p>\n

But his poise under pressure earned him a telephone call from President Obama — who invited him to his Jan. 20 inauguration and offered to fly him aboard Air Force One — a trip to the Super Bowl, and even a job offer from Virgin Air. <\/p>\n

And he hasn’t ruled anything out. <\/p>\n

“I will be happy to entertain all the things that are coming my way,” he told Britain’s Daily Mail when contacted at his home in Danville, Calif. <\/p>\n

The indomitable pilot will give his first full interview about the Miracle on the Hudson to CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again America — don’t Wesley Autrey the poor man. He’s done enough: Sullenberger said that when both engines on the Charlotte, NC-bound jet conked out after takeoff from La Guardia Airport — investigators say a double bird strike caused both engines to shut down — the feeling of total silence was “shocking.” “It was very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}