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Article: VIRGIN AIR'S BRANSON KEEN TO RECRUIT US AIRWAYS PILOT HERO SULLENBERGER

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February 2, 2009
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New York, Feb. 02 -- (ANI): Virgin Air billionaire Richard Branson wants to poach the "Miracle on the Hudson" U.S. Airways pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger III.

"I'd like him to come fly for us. We'll make him the best-paid pilot at Virgin -- we'll give him double [the salary of] anybody else. He also can become one of the astronauts in my intergalactic spaceship company. The man can write his own ticket with me," the New York Daily News quoted Branson, as saying.

Sullenberger sounded interested when we conveyed Branson's offer.

"That's amazing," said the man who saved the lives of 155 people when he deftly landed a ...

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