‘Miracle On The Hudson’ Pilot Has Just 3 Words For Trump’s DC Crash Response | EUROtoday

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Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the now-retired captain identified for his heroic position within the “Miracle on the Hudson,” let loose a deep sigh when requested Thursday about President Donald Trump’s remarks on the midair collision that left 67 folks useless in Washington, D.C., this week.

“Not surprised. Disgusted,” mentioned Sullenberger after a number of seconds of silence when MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell requested in regards to the president and cautioned that he didn’t wish to draw the pilot into “politics.”

The response from Sullenberger, who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, saving the lives of all 155 folks aboard, comes after Trump blamed variety hiring on the Federal Aviation Administration for the lethal collision.

Sullenberger, in a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post encouraging voter participation within the midterm elections, famous that he was a registered Republican “for the first 85 percent of my adult life” however added that he’s “always voted as an American.”

He’d go on to endorse Joe Biden in his 2020 marketing campaign and, in an advert with VoteVets and the anti-Trump GOP group The Lincoln Project later that yr, declared 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 mentioned within the 2020 advert.

He’d later go on to function the U.S. consultant to the International Civil Aviation Organization beneath Biden.

On Thursday, Sullenberger advised O’Donnell he was “immediately devastated” when he heard the “shocking” information of the D.C. crash.

“It hit me deeply, intensely. The loss of those lives, those precious lives,” he mentioned.

“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,” he added.

Sullenberger, who referred to the National Transportation Safety Board because the “gold standard” of accident investigation, mentioned the probe is a “long process,” as he famous that it took 16 months for the ultimate report on the 2009 Hudson River incident to be written.

He added that the NTSB investigation could require listening to a cockpit voice recorder, taking a look at a digital flight information recorder or “old-fashioned detective work.”

“But they will follow the truth, they will follow the facts wherever they lead,” he mentioned 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,” Sullenberger added.

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