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A Minnesota pilot averted disaster in 1985 emergency landing at MSP


Remembering a pilot s 1985 disaster-avoiding heroism
February 27, 2021 1:28pm
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A car struck and killed retired Northwest Airlines pilot and longtime St. Paul resident Carl Simmons during his after-lunch walk Jan. 29 near his wintertime condo in Orange Beach, Ala. He was 82.
The tragic accident came practically 36 years to the day after Capt. Simmons heroically maneuvered a suddenly crippled Boeing 727 into a safe landing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport narrowly avoiding a tragedy that easily could have claimed the lives of 52 passengers and nine crew members onboard Northwest Flight 573.
He was Sully before there was a Sully only difference was Dad made it back to the runway instead of the Hudson River, said Charlie Simmons, the younger of Carl s two sons, referring to Capt. Chesley Sullenberger deftly ditching his Airbus A320 into the rive ....

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