Both Sullenberger and Skiles also stressed how their incredible landing has affected the airline industry as a whole.
Leigh Keno , a regular on Antiques Road Show and coauthor of Hidden Treasures, a how-to guide for landing masterpieces of 18th-century American furniture, says Windsor chairs long have been a favorite of connoisseurs.
When Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January 2009, explained how he and his captain decided that an airport landing was impossible, he described the same "gaze heuristic": The angle of the plane's descending glide made the airport appear to rise in their windscreen view clearly signaling that a landing there was doomed.
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And what else is in the Mulcaire file about the techniques that many find truly shocking about how the News of the World behaved as though the only thing that mattered was landing the story, and never mind how it was obtained?
Schulz says that the term hard landing may depend on how you define it.
It's the story of how you greeted the plane upon landing -- hundreds of sailors -- and escorted Scott's flag-draped casket to your chapel.
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How would you explain the Mars Curiosity landing to an eight year old?
"We probably gave them too many opportunities in the first 10 minutes, but that's understandable after the journey and how quickly the game has come after landing, " he said.
But when you look out of a plane window as you buckle-up ahead of landing at a UK airport, the revelation is how green the country appears.
However, instead of focusing on an industry or role that suits their strengths and passions, most students focus their efforts on landing the highest paying jobs after school without regard to how it matches with their abilities.
How could you leverage the new contacts and experience to create a softer landing?
Yet, for each toss, the odds of landing on heads remain a very steady 50%, regardless of how often the coin landed on heads for the previous 10 tosses.
You had better believe that job applicants who are serious about landing a position in an industry known for puzzles have started reading books on how to solve puzzles, if not outright memorizing the more common mindbenders.
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The impression you make during the interview, regardless of how competitive the job market happens to be, will most always be the determining factor in landing your next job.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara questioned how much of the work of both state and city government "is tarnished by tawdry graft" while announcing probes landing six politicians in handcuffs and forcing a seventh from office.
The Tarawa calamity was already a Pacific legend: how naval intelligence, relying on obsolete charts, had miscalculated the tides so flagrantly that the Marine troops in their landing vessels were forced to disembark on coral reefs and then wade ashore for hundreds of yards, exposed to killing fire from Japanese machine guns.
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