{"id":70,"date":"2026-05-12T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/du5.us\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:37:38","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/du5.us\/?page_id=70","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Preface<\/h1>\n<em><strong>Life is full of tough times and hard decisions. <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>But as long as you choose to do the right thing, <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>you&#8217;ll be OK.<\/strong><\/em> -Chelsea Sedoti\n<p>Life is a journey.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>As a kid growing up in Illinois with six brothers and sisters and a poor academic record in high school, no one would have predicted that I would become Commander of a 4-engine P-3 Orion Naval plane with a crew of 12, nor that I would become Captain of the latest United Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet. Nor would they have predicted that my moral standards would prohibit me from falsifying a flight report to satisfy United Airlines management.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a result, United Airlines falsified charges against my pristine flying record to ground me from ever flying again. I became a whistleblower about faulty flight safety practices in the airline industry and the severely flawed official 9\/11 government report.<\/p>\n<p>I never sacrificed my morals, nor did I ever give up. My journey illustrates how a strong determination and hard work can overcome many obstacles faced in achieving one&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>It also illustrates how facing these unexpected challenges has resulted in far more good for humanity than my original objective for becoming a Captain in the left-seat of a commercial airliner.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dan Hanley, Summer 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/du5.us\/?page_id=65\"  target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/du5.us\/?page_id=27\"  target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBook Contents\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/du5.us\/?page_id=80\"  target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preface Life is full of tough times and hard decisions. But as long as you choose to do the right thing, you&#8217;ll be OK. -Chelsea Sedoti Life is a journey. As a kid growing up in Illinois with six brothers and sisters and a poor academic record in high school, no one would have predicted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/du5.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}