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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    I have a hard time believing someone in office supplies gets into either first class or heaven.
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/13/09

    @onebadclam: I'm sure that Herbert Kornfeld is representing up there, yo.
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    Image of dola dola
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    "Am I in heaven?" she asked him.

    Wow, people really *do* believe in that shit. And so humble! Of course heaven would be your first stop.
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    Image of AliHajiSheik AliHajiSheik
    10/13/09

    @dola: I'm pretty sure that if such a place exists, it doesn't look like the interior of a US Air domestic commuter flight. What a wretched eternity that would be.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/13/09

    @AliHajiSheik: If that Marine had a quick wit, he could have said any number of hilarious responses...

    "Are we in heaven? Ugh, yes, and can you believe all they have to read is Skymall??? What the fuck am I going to do with a sixteen-foot cobweb extension pole and automatic cat feeder?"
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    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    10/13/09

    @AliHajiSheik: According to South Park, if the afterlife looks like the inside of an airliner, you're in Purgatory.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/13/09

    @dola: That'd be one hell of a layover..
    er... on opposite day, that is :p
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    Image of GORDONGARTRELLE GORDONGARTRELLE
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    I thought the passengers' account was called Doody.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/13/09

    @GORDONGARTRELLE: Yeah, the publishers frowned upon the originally proposed Shit My Pants
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'

    That crash will not be properly depicted until screenwriter David Sontag -- who was on board that flight -- does something with his experience...

    In what I think is the best interview of what happened on board, Dick Gordon (who hosts the awesome show "The Story" that is heard on NPR stations) had a gripping interview with the guy about 2 weeks after the crash landing, and he tells a fascinating tale. I was in my car when I heard this with two bags of frozen groceries and just couldn't stop listening.. that shit was melted by the time I got to the house :[] -- here y'go:

    [thestory.org]
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    sully, call me
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    So Chesley is where the make-up-a-name-for-your-child trend started then.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    If I were in a crashing plane...well, let me put it this way. People around me would be praying for the end, and not because of the crash.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    The real miracle here is that an airline still has first class.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/13/09

    @BadUncle: ..let alone the fact that people who fly USAir actually fly first class :[]

    it ain't no Singapore Airlines..
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    Image of Artie Fufkin Artie Fufkin
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    The Mets just signed him for 4 year/50 mil.
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    Image of Seanibus Seanibus
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    Praying on the way down then surviving. Reminds me of the classic joke - a groomsman is late for a wedding. He is circling and circling looking for parking, watching the minutes tick away. Finally he cries out, "God, give me a parking place and I will go to church every Sunday." Suddenly, a place opens up almost next to the church. "Oh, never mind, God - I found one," he says.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    At some point, we're going to have to talk about the moustache.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    Dude's a great pilot, but maybe not a born writer of dramatic tales.

    I'd think that a disinclination towards dramatics is exactly what allowed Sullenberger to handle a life-threatening situation in such a calm, professional, and ultimately successful, manner.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    Chesley? Who names their child Chesley? His parents must have been either evil or pretentious. And what the hell is a Sullenberger?
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    10/13/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: C'mon, look at that picture. He throws like a girl. He probably got beat up a lot as a kid.
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    Image of blix blix
    10/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand why he threw like a woman but flew like a man, oh my Sully...
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/13/09

    @blix: Well we'd left the runway just a minute before
    And I'd never ever flown an airplane before
    Chesley smiled and took me by the hand
    And said dear boy I'm gonna teach you to land . . .
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/13/09

    @Claire Buoyant:

    Yeah, I guess it's no worse than all those kids back in the 40's and 50's that got names like "Hilton Rozenzweig" and "Winthorpe Cohen"
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/13/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Wouldn't you know it: Gawker was on this two years ago.

    [gawker.com]
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/13/09

    @blix: sigh/*thump, thump*
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    10/13/09

    @blix: Ha!
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    Image of blix blix
    10/13/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: Well done!
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/13/09

    @blix: It's an homage ;-)
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/13/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight:

    Homage to...? Is it gay aerotica?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/13/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:
    Crashfic?
    Nah, just a tribute to blix.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    10/13/09

    In reply to Sully Was Cool, But Passengers Were Like 'We're So Dead'
    A great pilot and courtly gentleman. Chesley Sullenberger, American.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    06/18/09

    In reply to This Is Why They Have Co-Pilots
    Speaking of media/hype ridiculous crap. CNN switched from Fredricka Whitfield to their computer nerd who was describing why they would monitor twitter in a case like this and showing the Continental website and describing it WHILE THE PLANE ACTUALLY ALREADY LANDED SAFELY.


    And sadly, no one had twittered this to the nerd.

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