Things that annoy me.

[delathi]

I've been reading accounts this morning about the airplane landing in the Hudson river. The pilot kept control of his aircraft, behaved in the most professional and expert manner, safely landed his severely damaged plane in a river in such a way as to save the lives of all 155 people on board. Then kept himself, his crew and the passengers calm and

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[thedamenoir]

yep this one caused a bit of a snarl to creep onto my face this morning.

Lets not chalk it up to his being an incredible pilot, or for the incredible foresite and great training on behalf of the flight crew... or for that matter the speed at which surrounding boats aided the rescue... nope

its a miracle...
((sigh))

[victoria_lane]

I must be missing the whole god angle because everything I've seen has indicate the pilot was one bad ass man of steel.

I think, though, it's symptom of the times we live in to cheapen anyone's skills. It's a longer conversation than I'm ready for pre coffee and certainly not here for a peanut gallery that will most certainly prove my point.

[ladylilo]

I'm forwarding this post to my old college-friend Freckles, if you don't mind. The aformentioned pilot is her cousin.

[freckles42]

*jumps in after being forward to* :D

I just wanted to say thank you. Everyone in our family is very proud of our cousin and what he did. While my (very religious) mother has talked about the timing, God-given skill, and so forth... even she doesn't want to take away from or diminish CB's acts of valor that day. It's not so much about his amazing landing in the water, but that he made every effort (twice!) to ensure that every single person was off that plane, alive.

I'm sure I could say quite a bit more, but how about I just cheapen it lightly with some words from my mother? ;) "He was raised right." :D