Air Traffic tapes released

It is so cool to see someone who knows their job and does it well. Pilot Sullenberger is one of these people.

From CNN.com:

Minutes after he reported hitting birds and losing power in both engines, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 calmly told an air traffic controller the plane would ditch into the Hudson River.

“We can’t do it,” pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger said at 3:29 p.m. on January 15, in response to efforts to land the plane at New Jersey’s Teterboro airport, according to a recording released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. (more… )

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