Five years ago to this day, Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III saved 155 people by bringing US Airways Flight 1549 to a miraculous landing on the Hudson River after the planes engines were jammed by a flock of geese.
Sullenberger at 62, has had a pretty eventful life since that day by now being a best-selling author, been congratulated by both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and become an advocate for air safety by joining the Journal of Patient Safety “to bring a sense of urgency” to the need to reduce the estimated 200,000 deaths each year caused by medical errors.
