News and Politics | January 24, 2009 | 4 comments

'miracle' pilot gets hero's homecoming

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DANVILLE, California (AFP) — The pilot who safely landed his crippled jet in New York's Hudson River received a hero's homecoming here Saturday, getting the key to the city and making his first public comments since the dramatic landing.

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was lauded by about 3,000 neighbors during a one-hour ceremony on Danville's town green, which was encircled with American flags. Huge banners proclaimed "Danville Welcomes Our Hometown Hero" and handmade signs in the crowd read: "Sully's Soaring Saved Souls."
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