Chesley Sullenberger Biography

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NAME: Chesley Sullenberger
OCCUPATION: Pilot
BIRTH DATE: January 23, 1951 (Age: 62)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Denison, Texas
Full Name: Chesley Sullenberger
Full Name: Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III
ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is a former US Airlines pilot, who successfully ditched his passenger plane on the Hudson River after it struck a flock of Canada geese, thereby saving all 155 people aboard.

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Chesley Sullenberger retired a year later, after 30 years as a commercial pilot. He then concentrated on running his safety consulting business, Safety Reliability Methods, Inc., which he founded in 2007, and on speaking in the United States and abroad about flight safety issues. In 2009, HarperCollins published Sullenberger's memoir, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters.