Blog #2 Overcoming a Struggle

For my second blog post I found an article in the New York Times about the pilot whose plane crashed into the Hudson River. The article starts with quotes from the pilot's transmitter saying that they lost thrust in both engines and were going to crash. After this the pilot knew that he was going to have to crash land in the Hudson. Long story short, they gently landed in the river where they were met by multiple rescue boats. This article fits the topic of overcoming a struggle for multiple reasons. The first is the physical struggle. The pilot had to control the crashing plane and guide it onto a target. The more important struggle that was overcome was the mental struggle. Knowing that so many people's lives are in your hands puts tons of pressure on you, let alone the panic that you face when you are in a life-threatening situation. The pilot overcame both of these and led all the people on the plane to safety, even though it was in a river.

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Otterman, Sharon. "F.A.A. Releases Flight 1549 Tapes." The New York Times. 5 Feb. 2009. 5 Feb. 2009.