Zitat des Tages von Chesley Sullenberger:
My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
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.
It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
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.
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.
The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. 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.
Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Medical professionals are as skilled and as dedicated as any, but they operate within a fragmented system that has not progressed as far as we have in aviation.
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.
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.
