Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters

摘要

Chesley sullenberger, the USrnAirways pilot who ditched his Airbus A320 in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, is the most famous aviator since Chuck Yeager, who was deified by Tom Wolfe in the 1979 book The Right Stuff. Yet unlike Yeager, a war hero, brash test pilot, and media darling, Sullenberger had toiled in obscurity-a phrase he himself uses in this eminently readable book-as an unremarkable airline pilot for a pinch-penny airline, flying prosaic domestic routes after a routine, warless U.S. Air Force career flying F-4 Phantoms.