Okay... not only did he land it...

[wolfwings]

...he landed it so gently even after sinking and washing 4.5 miles downriver one of the two engines is still attached to the jet.

That, right there. Call him what you will, I want to be able to have as many pilots call him teacher as is humanly, and more importantly humanely, possible.

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[david-bane.livejournal.com]

Mighty impressive.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I understand he's an ex-military pilot. And "did his job" to land the plane. He should definitely be cloned. ;-)

I also understand he walked the isles twice to make sure everyone was out before he left the plane.

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

For me, that is what marks him as a class act.

To understand and carry out your responsibilities to that extent....the man has my fullest respect.

I believe I read that when he did get rescued, he was carrying the passenger checklist.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree one bit. He should be the rule, not the exception. A man to be emulated. But, I also think that's the sort of way he was raised.

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

I would tend to agree. From all accounts he is embarrassed by the praise he has gotten so far.

I can see his point to some degree. After all, this is what he is trained and has practiced to do.

In his eyes, he is simply doing his job.

Of course, the passengers that he saved and the families who get to be together this weekend may have different opinions.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

They should have a big dinner and thank him, cards, ballons, handshakes and so forth. That would probably be a reasonable solution for the pilot, crew, passengers and families.

Appreciation from folks, thanks and so forth, but nothing over the top.

[shabm.livejournal.com]

Epic.

[uplinktruck.livejournal.com]

He may not wish to teach. But I'll bet he writes it up for the training manuals.

[eibii.livejournal.com]

I still demand video. Somebody had to be doing a ridiculously banal vlog entry before the plane buzzed past their window in descent.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwqIb0uuFAE

[eibii.livejournal.com]

I am impressed.

Unrelated, but will I ever be able to blither at you again on AIM or Googletalk? It's not realtime-necessary, I guess, email might as well do, I just need to pick your brain on some questions, and potentially hammer out a few things, I guess. Job market here is damn dry, and it's down to some rather hard decisions right now.

[chaoswolf]

So, are we going to be getting together this Wednesday? I don't know if that's what we'd agreed to or not.

As far as I know, yes.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I'll be in around 5:25pm on SouthWest Airlines flight 1114.