I will take age and experience over youth and exhuberance any time.

[Stinky The Clown]

Watching the 60 Minutes interview with the USAir crew .... all apparently well north of fifty ....

[Stargleamer]

1. I'm greedy--I want both n/t

[Skittles]

2. I want them both in the cockpit

almost everyone wants an old guy and a young guy (or gal) flying their plane

[stray cat]

3. What a competent group of people - very impressive in a crisis and very human

[eyesroll]

4. I won't.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/09/07/an_old_question_revisited/

:D

[Jackpine Radical]

5. That's playing dirty.

[ferrous wheel]

6. I find myself embarressed on behalf of "Sully" and I wonder why he allowed himself

to get into that 60 minutes circus. He absolutely deserves enormous credit for doing his job but the hero-worship has escalated from overdone to obscene. I hope there is some good reason for him to lend his appearence to this ghastly display of publicity.
edited for stupid little spelling error

[stray cat]

8. Disagree completely - people need good news for a change. Sully is classy!

[ferrous wheel]

11. Andy Warhol.

I wish Sully hadn't caved into the M$M's demands for heroism on the boob tube. So we can disagree I guess...no problem!
:hi:

[stray cat]

12. Absolutely! Although if my plane ever goes down I hope I end up as well

[emilyg]

13. You bet!

[Captain Hilts]

10. He didn't know ahead of time. He probably insisted the whole crew be there.

Or his airline/union gave him an incentive to be there.

[MercutioATC]

7. Dick Cheney salutes you!

:P

[babylonsister]

9. I loved this story, and am glad I watched.

I can't say enough about the esteem I have for the pilot first, but he seems to have had a great crew. The last leg on the 4th day of travel for these people. Wow. Professional all the way.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I **think** (but am not sure) that the flight deck crew and the cabin crew ..............

...... do not stay together. I think the pilot and copilot are a team but that the cabin crew less so. And (again not certain) the cabin crew and the flight crew are dispatched separately.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. That's why I married a woman older than I am.