{"id":23445343,"date":"2026-09-19T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=23445343"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:36:44","slug":"sully-sullenberger-alzheimers-diagnosis-robin-roberts-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/sully-sullenberger-alzheimers-diagnosis-robin-roberts-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Sully Sullenberger on His Alzheimer&#8217;s Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>Chesley Sullenberger has spent the seventeen years since the Hudson being careful about one thing above all: refusing to let the story be about him alone. He has pushed it back towards the crew, the cabin staff, the ferry captains, the training, the system.<\/p>\r\n<p>He is now 75, and he is doing the same thing with a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/chesley-sully-sullenberger-portrait-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Chesley Sullenberger\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Captain Chesley &ldquo;Sully&rdquo; Sullenberger. Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:18px 20px;margin:26px 0\"><h3 style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-size:20px\">Quick Facts<\/h3><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Who<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">Captain Chesley B. &ldquo;Sully&rdquo; Sullenberger III, born 23 January 1951<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Diagnosis<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">Early-stage Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Diagnosed<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">August 2025<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Made public<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">July 2026, initially to PEOPLE magazine<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">The new interview<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">With Robin Roberts, alongside his wife Lorrie<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Airing<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">Wednesday 24 September 2026 on Good Morning America, ABC, with Disney+ and Hulu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Known for<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">Commanding US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson on 15 January 2009. All 155 aboard survived<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Earlier career<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">US Air Force F-4 Phantom pilot, then more than 20,000 flying hours over a civil career of some 30 years<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">Since 2009<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">Aviation safety advocacy, congressional testimony, US Ambassador to the ICAO Council in 2022<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee;font-weight:600;width:38%;vertical-align:top\">His framing<\/td><td style=\"padding:8px 14px;border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee\">&ldquo;If this has to be my last flight, I&rsquo;m going out using full afterburner&rdquo;<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What he has said<\/h2>\r\n<p>The diagnosis came in August 2025. He and Lorrie, his wife of 37 years, lived with it privately for nearly a year before he told PEOPLE in July 2026. In a preview of the Robin Roberts interview released this week, he was direct about how that year began.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 10px;color:#0d1117\">&ldquo;We felt all those emotions. The shock. The anger. Why me?&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#555;margin:0\"><strong>Chesley Sullenberger<\/strong>, on receiving the diagnosis, speaking to Robin Roberts<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And about how he intends to carry it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #2e7d32;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 10px;color:#0d1117\">&ldquo;If this has to be my last flight, I&rsquo;m going out using full afterburner.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#555;margin:0\"><strong>Chesley Sullenberger<\/strong>, in the same interview<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In his original statement he was precise about what the early stage means in practice, which is the sort of precision you would expect from him: a name that will not come, a story told twice, sleep that is not what it was. He described himself as at the beginning of a long journey.<\/p>\r\n<p>His reason for going public is consistent with everything he has done since 2009.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #6a1b9a;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:19px;line-height:1.6;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 10px;color:#0d1117\">&ldquo;This new phase of my life has challenged what it means to be of service. By sharing this, other families living in the shadows with this disease will feel they too can step forward.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#555;margin:0\"><strong>Chesley Sullenberger<\/strong>, on why he chose to speak publicly<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The pilot before the Hudson<\/h2>\r\n<p>The thing most retellings skip is that Sullenberger arrived at the Hudson with an unusually deep hand.<\/p>\r\n<p>He went through the Air Force Academy, earned his wings in 1975, and flew <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-4-phantom-ii\/\">F-4 Phantom IIs<\/a> with the 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath and later the 428th at Nellis, reaching captain and serving as a flight leader and training officer. He left the Air Force in 1980 for Pacific Southwest Airlines, which became US Airways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/chesley-sullenberger-us-air-force-academy.jpg\" alt=\"Chesley Sullenberger at the US Air Force Academy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Sullenberger at the Air Force Academy. The Hudson was flown by a former fighter pilot with a glider rating and three decades of airline command behind him. Photo: U.S. Air Force Academy, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>By 2009 he had more than 20,000 hours, a glider rating, and years as an accident investigator and air safety chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association. He had also run his own consultancy on crew resource management and human factors, which is to say he had spent much of his career studying exactly how crews cope when a flight goes wrong.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then, on 15 January 2009, a flock of Canada geese took out both engines of an Airbus A320 at about 2,800 feet over New York, and he had roughly three and a half minutes to find somewhere to put it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/us-airways-1549-hudson-river-ferries.jpg\" alt=\"US Airways Flight 1549 floating in the Hudson River surrounded by ferries\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Flight 1549 in the Hudson, ferries already alongside. The outcome belonged to the crew, the cabin staff and the boat captains as much as to the man in the left seat, which is what he has said ever since. Photo: Greg L, CC BY 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What he did with the seventeen years<\/h2>\r\n<p>A great many people have one extraordinary day and then spend the rest of their lives being introduced by it. Sullenberger did something less comfortable with his.<\/p>\r\n<p>Five weeks after the ditching he was in front of a congressional subcommittee, and he did not use the time to be congratulated. He talked about pay, about experience levels in regional cockpits, about what happens to a profession when the people in it are paid too little to stay. He co-chaired the Young Eagles programme with his first officer Jeffrey Skiles. He wrote, he taught, he testified, and in 2022 he served as US Ambassador to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization.<\/p>\r\n<p>The consistent thread is that he treated the Hudson as evidence rather than as an achievement. Evidence that training works, that crews matter, that systems either support people under load or they do not.<\/p>\r\n<p>The announcement this year reads like the same instinct pointed at a different problem.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why this is aviation news and not only celebrity news<\/h2>\r\n<p>There is a reason a pilot talking about cognitive decline lands differently from anyone else talking about it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Aviation is one of the few professions that has always been explicit that the human being is a component with a service life. Pilots are medically examined at intervals for their whole careers. Airline pilots in most of the world face a hard retirement age. The industry has spent decades building systems on the assumption that people degrade, get tired, get distracted and get old, and that the answer is not to pretend otherwise but to design around it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sullenberger stopped flying for the airline in 2010. Nothing about this diagnosis touches a cockpit. But a man who spent his career inside a culture that treats human limitation as an engineering input, now describing his own, is a genuinely unusual voice on the subject, and that is worth more than the headline.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The interview<\/h2>\r\n<p>The full conversation with Robin Roberts, with Lorrie Sullenberger alongside him, airs on Wednesday 24 September on Good Morning America. The preview released this week is where the quotes above come from.<\/p>\r\n<p>Roberts is a reasonable choice for it. She has twice come back to that desk after serious illness of her own, and the interview was clearly built as a conversation between two people who understand what it costs to be public about a diagnosis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin:24px 0;display:flex;justify-content:center\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdbR2iajmTU\/embed\/\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:540px;height:1000px;border:0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Does Sully Sullenberger have Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Captain Chesley &ldquo;Sully&rdquo; Sullenberger, 75, was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease in August 2025 and made the diagnosis public in July 2026. He has described the current effects as a name not coming easily, forgetting a story he has recently told, and not sleeping as well, and says he is at the beginning of a long journey.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When is the Robin Roberts interview with Sullenberger?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It airs on Wednesday 24 September 2026 on Good Morning America on ABC, with streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. His wife Lorrie appears alongside him. A preview released the week before contains his remarks about the shock and anger that followed the diagnosis.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is Sullenberger still flying?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. He retired from airline flying in 2010, the year after the Hudson ditching, and his public work since has been in aviation safety advocacy, writing and diplomacy rather than in the cockpit. The diagnosis has no bearing on commercial flight safety.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What did Sullenberger do before the Hudson landing?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">He was a US Air Force officer who earned his wings in 1975 and flew F-4 Phantom IIs with the 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath and the 428th at Nellis Air Force Base, reaching the rank of captain. He joined Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980, which later became US Airways, and accumulated more than 20,000 flying hours. He also held a glider rating, investigated accidents, and served as an air safety chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened on US Airways Flight 1549?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 15 January 2009 the Airbus A320 struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after departing LaGuardia, losing thrust on both engines at around 2,800 feet. With too little height and energy to reach an airport, Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles ditched the aircraft in the Hudson River. All 155 people on board survived, evacuated onto the wings and slides and taken off by commuter ferries.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What has Sullenberger done since 2009?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">He testified before Congress in February 2009 on pilot pay and experience levels, co-chaired the Young Eagles programme with Jeffrey Skiles, worked as an aviation safety analyst, wrote two books including the memoir Highest Duty, and served as US Ambassador to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2022.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Does Sully Sullenberger have Alzheimer\u2019s disease?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Yes. 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