Katie Scooped...By Rick Reilly
Oh come now, does this matter? Really? That Hudson Hero Sully Sullenberger talked to Rick Reilly before he talked to Katie Couric?
I have it on good authority that he also talked to the good people at the Danville, Ca. library. The conversation was relayed to hometown paper Contra Costa Times.
So one could argue that the CC Times scooped Rick. (Unfortunately, the CC Times story was about an overdue book. )
What was the full interview with Sully about? Here's Reilly's entire blog post on the encounter (and go to the jump for the overdue book story...this is all getting a little weird.)
"Who was standing there Saturday night - just he and his wife - in the lobby of the Marriott Waterside hotel in Tampa, but Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, the US Air pilot who ditched safely and miraculously in the Hudson River with both engines gone. The man who saved 155 lives was about 6-2, 175 pounds with a deep radio voice and a personality that couldn't be hurried with a team of Clydesdales. He was at the Super Bowl as a guest of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, but hadn't met him yet, even though Goodell was standing 15 feet away. I had to ask him, What was that like when you realized both engines were out? He thought about it for awhile and then said, slowly and deliberately, "Shocking. It was very quiet as we worked, my co-pilot and I. We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking - the silence." How were you feeling inside? I asked. "Calm on the outside, turmoil inside." He kept calling the whole thing "surreal." His wife, Lori, said she and Sully have been opening letters every night that are so emotional, "it allows both of us to express emotion about it all. We both sit there and cry." I wanted to ask him one more question but he got swept away. It was going to be, "Do you mind emailing me the list of all your flights coming up in 2009? I'd like to be on them."
FRESNO, Calif. — Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger of Danville is now every librarian's hero, too.
When the US Airways pilot's plane ended up at the bottom of the Hudson River on Jan. 15, so did a book he had checked out from the library at California State University, Fresno, through his local library near Danville.
Sullenberger contacted library officials and asked for an extension and waiver of overdue fees because the book, probably also a little waterlogged, was in the airliner's cargo hold when the plane went down.
Sullenberger, who helped save the lives of his 150 passengers when he and his crew glided the crippled plane to an emergency landing, has been attracting national attention for the past few weeks, popping up at Sunday's Super Bowl, the inauguration and a hometown welcome party attended by a couple thousand people. He and his crew are set to give their first media interview Sunday on the CBS show "60 Minutes."
Fresno State library officials said they were struck by Sullenberger's sense of responsibility and did him one better: They're waiving all fees, even lost book fees, and placing a template in the replacement book dedicating it to him.
The book's subject? Professional ethics.
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