Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the now-retired captain acknowledged for his courageous perform within the “Miracle on the Hudson,” discharge a deep sigh when requested Thursday regarding President Donald Trump‘s statements on the midair collision that left 67 people dead in Washington, D.C. at present.
“Not surprised. Disgusted,” claimed Sullenberger after quite a few secs of silence when MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnel l inquired in regards to the head of state and warned that he actually didn’t intend to draw the pilot proper into “politics.”
The response from Sullenberger– that securely landed United States Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, conserving the lives of all 155 people aboard– follows Trump criticized diversity hiring on the Federal Aviation Administration for the dangerous accident.
Sullenberger, in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post motivating citizen involvement within the midterm political elections, saved in thoughts that he was a signed up Republican “for the first 85 percent of my adult life” but included that he’s “always voted as an American.”
He will surely happen to endorse Joe Biden in his 2020 undertaking and, in an commercial with VoteVets and the anti-Trump GOP group The Lincoln Project afterward that yr, acknowledged that Trump “failed us so miserably” within the “highest calling of leadership.”
“Now it’s up to us, to overcome his attacks on our very democracy, knowing nearly a quarter million Americans won’t have a voice, casualties of his lethal lies and incompetence,” he claimed within the 2020 commercial.
He will surely afterward happen to work because the united state agent to the International Civil Aviation Organization underneath Biden.
On Thursday, Sullenberger knowledgeable O’Donnell he was “immediately devastated” when he listened to the “shocking” info of the D.C. collision.
“It hit me deeply, intensely. The loss of those lives, those precious lives,” he claimed.
“I can imagine the families of those who are lost and the grief they must feel and they’re looking for some reason, some explanation that has yet, is not available to us, one day will be.”
Sullenberger, that described National Transportation Safety Board the “gold standard” of crash examination, claimed the probe is a “long process” as he saved in thoughts that it took 16 months for the final document on the 2009 collision to be created.
He included that the NTSB examination may want taking note of a cabin voice recorder, testing an digital journey info recorder or “old-fashioned detective work.”
“But they will follow the truth, they will follow the facts wherever they lead,” he claimed of the NTSB.
“And we can have great confidence that the results will be found, they will be made public and as we always do after such a tragedy, the entire industry will learn these terrible lessons that we learned at great cost.”
