{"id":34265,"date":"2026-09-13T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34265"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:39:08","slug":"hero-pilot-captain-sully-reveals-heartbreaking-health-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34265","title":{"rendered":"Hero Pilot Captain Sully Reveals Heartbreaking Health Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u2018Hero of the Hudson\u2019 Captain Sully Reveals Heartbreaking Alzheimer\u2019s Diagnosis at 75<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Capt. Chesley \u201cSully\u201d Sullenberger, the legendary pilot who saved all 155 people aboard a US Airways flight by landing on the Hudson River in 2009, has revealed that he has early-stage Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cI recently found out I have been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. It is early stage,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The retired pilot hopes his story will encourage other families facing Alzheimer\u2019s to seek support and know they are not alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Despite the diagnosis, Sully remains hopeful and grateful for his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cI will navigate this chapter with my wonderful family by my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His courage continues to inspire millions. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7i_wwHk7U8?si=HL5cjvN9d_KmWaLw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Hero of the Hudson\u2019 Captain Sully Reveals Heartbreaking Alzheimer\u2019s Diagnosis at 75 Capt. Chesley \u201cSully\u201d Sullenberger, the legendary pilot who saved all 155 people aboard a US Airways flight by landing on the Hudson River in 2009, has revealed that he has early-stage Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u201cI recently found out I have been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34265\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Hero Pilot Captain Sully Reveals Heartbreaking Health Diagnosis&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34267,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions\/34267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}