"I've learned that this has meaning for ... people in the airline industry, " Skiles said.
Amos Lee is in our New York bureaus today, along with guitarist Nate Skiles.
Barbara Skiles told WKOW that, in conversations since the incident, her husband has praised the rescue effort.
Skiles, 49, and also praised first responders who acted quickly to minimize passengers' injuries in below-freezing temperatures.
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First Officer Jeffrey Skiles and Sullenberger, who safely guided the plane to a smooth landing in the river.
Skiles, 49, as well as rescuers, who acted quickly to minimize passengers' injuries in below-freezing temperature and frigid water.
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Both Sullenberger and Skiles also stressed how their incredible landing has affected the airline industry as a whole.
And, of course, we'd like to thank accompanist Nate Skiles who was also there in the studio in New York.
Neither Sullenberger nor Skiles have spoken publicly about the incident.
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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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