Surviving Flight 1549 What happened to the 155 people on flight 1549 is the type of disaster that you read about in books, and what Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger did to save the people on that flight is also something that you read about in books. The amount of fear these people felt must have been something from a nightmare. However, in Amanda Ripley’s The Unthinkable, it is stated, “There are times when fear is good.” (xvii). No one really knows how they will react in the face of danger. Many people react differently when faced with disaster. Captain Sully never fully went through the first stage of the Survival Arc, denial. Amanda Ripley’s book, The Unthinkable, explains that denial can, “…take the form of delay, which can be fatal,”
