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Business As Usual At US Airways As Captain Sully Flies Again

Where: LaGuardia Airport [map], New York, NY, United States
October 1, 2009 at 8:42 AM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

He got a book deal, he met the president, he got the key to the city and now Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is getting the keys to his airplane back. The hero pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River after goose strikes knocked out the plane's engines, returns to work today at US Airways and will fly on his old route between LGA and Charlotte.

It's been almost ten whole months since the accident, and US Airways is obviously ready to resume business as usual. Sully will not only fly the same LaGuardia-to-Charlotte route that was Flight 1549, but will do it with the same first officer, Jeffrey Skiles. Now we're all for welcoming Sully back to the skies, especially since he'd be the pilot you'd want to have in control in case anything goes wrong, but piecing together much of the same scene from the accident doesn't make avoiding stress and flashbacks any easier.

The only difference now is that Sully is no doubt flying a plane with newer engines—some had named the crashed planes' old engines as a factor—, it's not January, and LaGuardia has actually been actively trying to murder their neighboring goose population. Oh yea, and did we mention that Sully has a book coming out? It hits bookstores on October 13, so aside from that, this flight is the same.

Always anxious for the scoop, TMZ noted in their original story that seats for the flight were still available. That has now changed as all seats have sold out and they are actually overbooked, no doubt with one or two occupied by curious gawkers or the press. So if you're flying on US Airways out of LGA today, don't linger around paparazzi thinking you're going to see Mariah Carey; it's just good old Sully.

Related Stories:
· Sully Flying From Laguardia Tomorrow [Gothamist]
· Captain Sully, Take Two [TMZ]
· US Airways Flight 1549 Coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: ingridtaylar]

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