60 Minutes: Couric with Capt. Sully and the flight crew

[Killick]

Anyone else watching? Jesus , my admiration for the captain just keeps going up and up. This is one helluva cool cat. And it just got a little dusty in here when they showed the teaser for the next segment: the passengers meeting the flight crew for the first time since the crash.

 

[bigbadeagle]

That dude has ice water in his veins. He's the real Iceman.
But listening to Katie Couric asks questions makes me reach for the single-malt Scotch.

 

[Boom_70]

I think I would rather land in the Hudson than have to listen to Katie Couric. Why didn't the use Leslie Stahl.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Couric hate.... God... so tired.

 

[lone star scribe]

Couric hate.... God... so tired.

Amen, Simon. She's one of the best interviewers in the business, and this is especially where she excels. I'll never forget her work on the Virginia Tech shootings. Captures and relays emotion without getting maudlin or gushy.

 

[93Devil]

Did anyone notice Sully getting pretty wet in the eyes during the letter reading? That was a great 40 minutes. Coldplay was such a drop off.

On a side note, that blond flight attendant just made me want to wretch.

 

[qtlaw]

Rich Bucher on the local radio on Friday said he was at the Super Bowl next to the Cap'n and so he asked him a few questions, one of Capt. Sully's comments was:

"It was strange, after always being used to hearing engine noise in the cockpit, this one time you hear nothing but silence."

Chilling.

 

[Killick]

Did anyone notice Sully getting pretty wet in the eyes during the letter reading?

Absolutely. I got misty, too.

On a side note, that blond flight attendant just made me want to wretch.

Funny, but I didn't see too many people rallying around her during the get-together. Not like the others. Telling, I suppose.

 

[playthrough]

The ratings should be astronomical.

I bet the injured flight attendant had a lot more stories about what went on in the back of the plane besides the one guy who rushed past her to rip open a rear door (hastening the flooding of the plane), but I wonder if 60 Min held back in sharing them.

 

[DirtyDeeds]

It got misty in here a couple of times, too. Especially when they were reading the letters and during the reunion. Just great stuff. Katie looks a little rough thse days, but she still does a solid interview. And loved when he said that he just knew he could do it.
The blond had me annoyed at first, but I tried to think about what she went through. All the glowing praise and the perception that the crash itself wasn't that big a deal, and she had it pretty rough in comparison. I felt bad for her, but got the idea that she wants attention. She struck me as someone who is probably pretty difficult in everyday life. Anyone know what the extent of her injuries were? I know she had the pretty deep gash in her leg that they mentioned.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I think I would rather land in the Hudson than have to listen to Katie Couric. Why didn't the use Leslie Stahl.

Because it's a big-ass "get" that's going to get huge ratings and they're trying to promote Couric instead of Stahl.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Did anyone notice Sully getting pretty wet in the eyes during the letter reading?

Absolutely. I got misty, too.

On a side note, that blond flight attendant just made me want to wretch.

Funny, but I didn't see too many people rallying around her during the get-together. Not like the others. Telling, I suppose.

They termed her injury as serious... but she walked fine two and a half weeks later in Tampa.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

This landing has conjured feelings I haven't felt since the U.S. hockey upset of the USSR 29 years ago, in the sense that the country is so badly getting its ass kicked and this is such a salve of great news on the wounds.

 

[Football_Bat]

This landing has conjured feelings I haven't felt since the U.S. hockey upset of the USSR 29 years ago, in the sense that the country is so badly getting its ass kicked and this is such a salve of great news on the wounds.

Damn right. I'm ready to invade Grenada all over again!

Seriously, though, Sully is the man.

 

[trifectarich]

Couric hate.... God... so tired.

It's like she's interviewing Jesus Christ. The fawning is just awful. That was painful to watch.

 

[Big Chee]

That is the coolest cat I've ever heard in my life.

 

[Boom_70]

That is the coolest cat I've ever heard in my life.

When I saw Sully speaking it made me think of the passage in "The Right Stuff " that discusses how all pilots want to sound like Chuck Yeager.

 

[Big Chee]

That is the coolest cat I've ever heard in my life. 

Captain Sully told air traffic control "we're going into the Hudson" with the same cool as a guy sitting on a sofa with a Newport hanging at the corner of his mouth.

 

[Ace]

Sully is cool and obviously a great pilot.

But most pilots manage to keep their cool in similar situations. Amazing how they do that.

Listen to the black box recordings. You rarely hear a pilot freak out or get emotional.

I don't know how they drum that panic out of them.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Sully is cool and obviously a great pilot.

But most pilots manage to keep their cool in similar situations. Amazing how they do that.

Listen to the black box recordings. You rarely hear a pilot freak out or get emotional.

I don't know how they drum that panic out of them.

Not true!