Highest duty: my search for what really matters

1. A Flight You'd Never Forget

2. A Pilot's Life

3. Those Who Came Before Me

4. "Measure Twice, Cut Once"

5. The Gift of Girls

6. Fast, Neat, Average

7. Long-term Optimist, Short-term Realist

8. This Is the Captain Speaking

9. Showing Up for Life

10. Anything Is Possible

11. Managing the Situation

12. The View from Above

13. Sudden, Complete, Symmetrical

14. Gravity

15. One Hundred Fifty-five

16. Stories Heard, Lives Touched

17. A Wild Ride

18. Home

19. The Question

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. Flight Path of Flight 1549, January 15, 2009

Appendix B. National Transportation Safety Board Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcript Excerpt