Authors: Chesley B. Sullenberger
Highest Duty (26 page)
CAPTAIN CHESLEY B. SULLENBERGER III
is an airline pilot and safety expert, and has served as an instructor and an Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) safety chairman and accident investigator. He was named the Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship in his graduating class at the United States Air Force Academy, and he holds two master’s degrees. A native of Denison, Texas, he lives in Danville, California, with his wife and family.
JEFFREY ZASLOW
is a
Wall Street Journal
columnist and, with Randy Pausch, coauthor of the number one international bestseller
The Last Lecture
, which has now been translated into 46 languages. He is also the author of the
New York Times
bestseller
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
. Zaslow lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, Sherry, and daughters Jordan, Alex, and Eden.
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HIGHEST DUTY
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This recording contained audio from Hot microphones used by the flight-crew. The voices or sounds on these channels were also, at times, heard by
the CVR group on the CAM channel and vice versa. In these cases, comments are generally annotated as coming from the source (either HOT or CAM) from which the comment was easiest to hear and discern.