{"id":400119,"date":"2026-07-16T01:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:36:31","slug":"bay-areas-legendary-pilot-reveals-alzheimers-diagnosis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400119\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area&#8217;s Legendary Pilot Reveals Alzheimer&#8217;s Diagnosis: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was many people rising to the occasion,&#8221; Sullenberger said at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Sullenberger returned to flying eight months after the crash and worked until his retirement in 2010, according to People. <\/p>\n<p>He wrote two books after retiring, was a safety aviation advocate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradoseries.com\/ambassador-sully-sullenberger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">became a diplomat<\/a> under the Biden administration. <\/p>\n<p>Sullenberger was most recently mentioned in Nathan Fielder&#8217;s second season of &#8220;The Rehearsal,&#8221; in which Fielder spends the second season of the show becoming a pilot while trying to figure out what&#8217;s been causing plane crashes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capt. Sullenberger became a symbol of calm, courage, and selfless leadership when he safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, saving the lives of all 155 people on board,&#8221; The Alzheimer\u2019s Foundation of America said. &#8220;Those same qualities are evident in his decision to speak publicly about his Alzheimer&#8217;s diagnosis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was many people rising to the occasion,&#8221; Sullenberger said at the time. Sullenberger returned to flying eight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-400119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}