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Aviation Icon Sully Sullenberger Announces Early-Stage Alzheimer's Diagnosis
Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, renowned for successfully ditching US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009, has publicly shared his early-stage Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. The seventy-five-year-old aviator is undergoing treatment in San Francisco and released a statement hoping to bring awareness to the condition by stepping into the public eye. For the aviation community, Sullenberger remains the ultimate benchmark for airmanship and crew resource management, and his continued transparency serves as a powerful reminder of the human element behind the flight deck door.