The Heroic Pilot

The plane takes off before three o' clock from La Guardia Airport, but in a few minutes, it is suddenly struck by a flock of geese killing both engines; and the undaunted pilot with his forty years of flight, has to make an emergency landing on water, and he's telling the passengers to hold on tight... while getting his strength together, and with will and power, he lands the Airbus A320, in the Hudson River, flat! Many who have seen this incredible landing, believe this is a miracle unfolding before their eyes; and how quick the emergencies rescue teams rush to the airplane sinking in the frigid waters; and in a flash of a minute many more ferry boats come to help while the sirens are loudly waling! On the wing through the back emergency door, every single passenger gets out safely....telling each other to be calm, because they believe that angels are guiding them; and is one of the angels tapping the fearless spirit of this kind , selfless and courageous pilot: putting their safety first, instead of his well-being? More heroes like him are needed by us: when most folks seem uncaring and cold, and he has acted with a humanity that's really indescribable and a boldness that only God endows someone with; he has confronted danger relying on his amazing skills... and knowing for certain that his swift thinking would be so daringly successful! " Thank you ", I hear everyone whisper as they are given hot coffee and a warm blanket; " Thank you", they're sweetly saying in a prayer expressing their gratitude... for the bravest man who has saved them from hell! That is his glorious and incomparable moment: a heroism not read in books or seen in movies, and this is no fiction, but plan and blunt reality! Read the joyful gratefulness in the passengers faces, happy to be alive, because of the action of one who has cared; see how ordinary people become legends... when they take tremendous risks that some wouldn't; realize how their perception is sharper and deeper that many, and when they act...surely another miracle is bound to happen! And like the caring New Yorkers, who have witnessed it on this January the fifteen...you, too, can: when someone gives all he's got, to save hundreds of lives that were almost gone; and will he accept a medal for his bravery? Heroic pilot, who can ever forget what you have done today? God remembers the good men who look up to Heaven and pray! My poem is dedicated to Captain Chesley Sullenberger of USA Airlines-Flight 1549 Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci