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In Short Order, Pilot’s Landing on the Hudson Becomes a Book
nytimes.com
Book publishers are not known for quick landings, usually taking more than a year after receiving manuscripts to get them into bookstores. So it is perhaps appropriate that a quick landing — Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III’s fatality-free ditching, after six minutes aloft, of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January — is resulting in a book by Farrar, Straus & Giroux to be published in November, just a blink of a book editor’s bespectacled eye.“Fly by Wire: The Truth About the Miracle on the Hudson,” will be written by William Langewiesche, a pilot and an author of books including “American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center” in 2002. MORE