Poem about current event

This commercial airline story is the image of raw fear.
It began with passengers only a mile from the site of the crash.
Only then did they realize that almost certain death was near.
On January 17, 2009 a dramatic photo was taken,
Capturing US Airways Flight 1549's sudden end,
Damaged by birds, the flight suddenly had to descend.
Down it came toward the frigid waters off West 69th Street.
All 154 souls aboard started getting ready, their Maker to meet.
Then Pilot C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, called for a special act.
Calmly, but with authority, he commanded, "brace for impact."
A command he had long ago been trained to deliver,
Just before the miracle landing on the Hudson River.
Seconds later, the plane made the unprecedented water landing,
Becoming the stuff of legend, called "outstanding."
After hero Captain Sullenberger, known as "Sully",
Turned the Hudson river into a runway, his co-pilot proclaimed,
"No one has ever pulled this off," Jeff Skiles joyfully exclaimed.
In the rescue the co-pilot, looking at Sully, couldn't stop gazing,
Jeff said his pilot, "You've done something amazing!"
With the praise, Sullenberger did not seem all that impressed,
His satisfaction comes, not from glory, but from passing the test.
When passengers thanked Sully for saving their lives,
"You're welcome," was the response of Flight 1549's chairman.
Such humility was not surprising to friends this airman.
Kitty Higgins, a NTSB board member, was overheard saying,
"This is the most successful ditching in aviation history."
But to Sully and his the pilots, it is no extra ordinary mystery.
Even after Sully had more time to reflect on being called heroic,
He is more comfortable with the role of an unemotional stoic.
"He seems overwhelmed by all of this hero talk,"
Said a spokesman for the US Airline Pilots Association.
"Captain Sully prefers to just a pilot, and is pleased,
His passengers are well and death has been appeased."
In his silent way, "Sully" is rejoicing all are safe and sound,
Having escaped the the icy water, making it to solid ground.
Fighting tears, Sully's wife, Lorrie, said: "We are proud of him.
However, it's 'a little weird' hearing the world calling him a hero."
His friends say, "He is just a professional who does his job well.
He wants to be seen as a family man and a pilot, not a masahiro!"