Chesley Sullenberger, a pilot for US Airways since 1980, received a master's degree from Purdue University in 1973.
He's best known these days as the pilot of an Airbus A320 on US Airways Flight 1549, a commercial passenger flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, NC, that on 15 January 2009 successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan. All 155 occupants were safely evacuated.
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