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Chesley Sullenberger

Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III (born January 23, 1951) is a retired American airline captain celebrated for the January 15, 2009 water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River off Manhattan after the plane was disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese immediately after takeoff; all 155 people aboard survived. Sullenberger is a speaker on airline safety and has helped develop new protocols for airline safety. He served as the co-chairman, along with First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, of the EAA's Young Eagles youth introduction-to-aviation program from 2009 to 2013. He retired from US Airways after 40 years as a commercial pilot on March 3, 2010. In May of the following year, Sullenberger was hired by CBS News as an Aviation and Safety Expert.

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That's what we're trained to do.

Aviation, Trained

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Aviation, Everyone, Manage, Messages, Regulate, Want

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Afraid, Cheap, Cost, Flying, Made, Make

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Deserve, Money, Organization, People, Think, Thinking

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Found, Generations, Hopes, Pilots, Profession

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Children, Growing, My Children, Stopped, Teach

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Amazing, Learn, Used

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Bad, Day, Good, Navigate, Opportunity, Wake Up

With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Changes, Loss, Pay, Terminations, Terror Attacks, Work

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

Children, Half, Lives, Missed, Two

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Aviation, Experience, Safety, Simply, Substitute, Substitutes

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

Intellectual, Lifelong, Mother, Reading, Teacher

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Important, Live, Organization, People, Realize, Resource

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

Careers, Economic, Learn, Set, Skills, Thinking