On solid ground: & # 039; Sully, & # 039; controller meet in the New York marathon
On solid ground: & # 039; Sully, & # 039; controller meet in the New York marathon
The image is miraculous: passengers stand on the wings of a US Airways passenger plane as it floats down the Hudson River.
The pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the air traffic controller Pat Harten are always linked by the incredible landing in the water that saved the 155 passengers and the crew after a two-bird attack damaged both engines on January 15. 2009
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the "Miracle on the Hudson," Sullenberger and Harten will meet at the finish line of the New York City Marathon. Sullenberger will place the finalist medal around Harten's neck in Central Park on November 4.
"We believe that in Patrick's world, we will be very honored and excited to be there to cheer him up," said Sullenberger, who will be attending with his wife Lorrie. "We work together perfectly in one of the most terrible situations that anyone can imagine to try to save each life."
Harten is a second-generation air traffic controller, following in the footsteps of his father and 36-year-old veteran, Patrick Harten Sr. Young Harten attended the air traffic control school in Alaska after earning a degree in chemistry at the Stony Brook University.
His father, who ran the marathon in New York City in 1985, introduced him to sports. They started running together when Harten was 9 years old, and finished a half marathon at 10. He also competed in three Ironman triathlons: a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike, and a 26.2-mile marathon.
He is training for the first New York marathon and the fifth in general, including two Boston marathons.
"I have a lot of mileage on my legs," Harten told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It's a convergence of two very important aspects of my life: running with my father and having all the 'Miracle of the Hudson'".
The link between Harten and Sullenberger was forged that winter day of 19 degrees. Flight 1549 left LaGuardia airport and, shortly after takeoff, a flock of Canadian geese damaged both engines. Sullenberger asked Harten about landing at the nearby Teterboro airport in New Jersey, in case he was pushed back into one of the engines.
"On the left I had LaGuardia, on the right I had Teterboro, later on the line that had Newark," said Harten. "Basically I was making sure that all the options were available to him."
"It was obvious that he was a true professional," Sullenberger said in a telephone interview with AP. "You hear the dedication in Patrick's voice, trying to take us back to a track, to any track."
Sullenberger and first officer Jeff Skiles, who met three days earlier, reviewed the list of possibilities.
"We had to collaborate without words and we quickly realized that there were only three options," Sullenberger said. "Two that we could not reach because we did not have enough energy or enough altitude or speed, the only place in the entire New York area that we could do was the river.
"I had to maintain the exact level of the wings, I had to start the landing at the proper height, not too high or too low to touch the water with the lowest speed of descent and with the right attitude slightly tilted upwards" "I had to do many things exactly well in those last seconds simultaneously. "
Sullenberger and Harten had about four minutes between the bird attack at 3:27 p.m. and plunging into the Hudson River at 3:31 p.m. Sullenberger credits four decades and "thousands of hours" of flight experience for the successful outcome. The first New York Waterway ferry arrived on the plane in less than four minutes, he said.
"The fact that we, the rescuers and the rescuers, could meet to be up to the occasion and become our mission in life to see everyone saved is something that will define the rest of our lives," Sullenberger said.
Harten thought that all the passengers died after losing radar contact when the plane sank beneath New York's skyscrapers. The protocol required leaving office quickly, reviewing the incident and preparing an official statement.
After about 45 minutes, a co-worker in the break room suggested that someone should "probably go tell Patty that everyone is okay," Harten said. "Someone came down and said, 'I think it looks like everyone made it.' At first I thought they were playing with me." In my mind, I thought they were all dead.
"That was quite shocking, definitely a relief, but a very shocking thing to hear."
Sullenberger requested that the pilot union's critical incident response team come to New York and provide the survivors with a "roadmap" of the expected symptoms: how the near-death experience would affect their thinking and their sleep.
"We all experience PTSD," said Sullenberger, 67. "It took several months to achieve it, but people can be resistant."
"The critical perception for me, personally, was when I realized that I had to make this experience a part of me and not just something that happened to me, I had to be able to integrate it in some way into my psyche. who I am. "
Harten had the support of his wife Regina, his mother Mary, his three brothers and his father.
"My father could help me because I could relate to him more than the average person," said Harten, who is approaching 20 years as an air traffic controller, working six days a week, up to 10 hours a day.
Running also helped him cope, along with six weeks of therapy.
"I put the treadmill at 10 mph and I ran hard and I kept as long as I could," Harten said. "Any mental anguish that I felt at that moment, I would replace it with physical pain".
These days, Harten, 44, trains on the boardwalk in Long Beach, New York. Recently it has been slowed down by the cramps in the legs, but the bicycles to maintain its physical state. Whether he can "run a 3:20" or "walk after mile 2," Harten says he will make it to the finish line.
"Running can be very therapeutic and you will go out on your own, I do not listen to headphones, you work mentally in a certain way," he said. "We spend a lot of time in electronics and we're always exposed to some kind of entertainment, I do not think people spend enough time thinking, going out running is the perfect excuse to do it."
When he is not walking outdoors with his wife, Sullenberger talks about aviation safety, talks to veterans about resources for post-traumatic stress disorder and advises on driverless car design safety.
The graduate of the Academy of the Air Force of EE. UU He consulted about the movie "Sully" of 2016, starring Tom Hanks. He wished the research scenes were "more nuanced".
The real passengers and crew will gather for the tenth anniversary at the Aviation Museum of the Carolinas, home of the rebuilt Airbus A320, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"I call them the 1549 family," said Harten. "Sully is like the patriarch of the family, I think I can speak for almost everyone on that flight: he is the man."
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