It's been said many times, but that pilot has BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS OF STEEL.

If you can keep your voice that steady after determining that your jet plane is about to crash into a river you are bad ass.

The final line wins it +1000 stars.

I'm equally amazed by the air traffic controllers. They're setting up a runway for a crashing plane with the casual efficiency of someone scheduling a dentist appointment.

�Cedarborough�uh, this is LaGuardia. Got a sky emergency inbound. Flight 1529 over the George Washington Bridge wants to go to the airport right now.�

�Wants to go to OUR airport? Check. Does he need assistance?�

�Uh, yes. He, uh�. It was a birdstrike. Can I get him in for, uh, Runway 1?�

�Runway 1? That�s good.�

I've heard a little longer clip, and when he drops off the radar (and the radio) ATC keeps calmly vectoring him to Teterboro.

needs a "also his balls are huge" tag

I mean, this is right up there with that guy doing the big wheel ramp jump

I'd like to see snakes trying to fuck with THAT pilot.

Aparantly after the crash Sullenberger had a book that he had checked out of a library that went down in the water. He goes to the library and ask if late fees could be waived and to pay for the book. The library replaces the book for free in honor of him. The books topic? Profesional Ethics.

The dude gives Jesus a run for the money.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There is NO profession on God's green earth with more collective balls than commercial airline pilots.

And that, friends and neighbors, is keeping your head. I like to imagine his copilot gawping at him and muttering "no ... fucking ... way"

Bravo. I'd forget all my training and just be a screaming idiot if it were me.

Balls.