'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot Captain Sully reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis

Captain Chesley Sullenberger — better known as "Sully," the pilot who safely guided a crippled airliner onto New York's Hudson River back in two thousand nine — has revealed he's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As BBC News tells it, the seventy-five-year-old says the diagnosis is recent and that the disease remains at an early stage.

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