FAA's Age 60 Rule Strikes Again
Submitted by dave on March 3, 2010 - 10:53am.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587841,00.html
NEW YORK — Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who piloted a US Airways flight during its emergency water landing on the Hudson River in January of last year, is retiring Wednesday.
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All 150 passengers survived the emergency river landing in January 2009 when the plane's engines were struck by birds.
Call us crazy, but isn't Capt. Sullenberger exactly the sort of man we want in the cockpit when things start going pear-shaped? How is forcing an experienced--and obviously tremendously skilled--pilot to retire because he is having a birthday serving the cause of safety?
