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Updated Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:11 pm TWN, AP

U.S. hero pilot jokes about marital boost in TV show

LOS ANGELES -- Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him “rock star sex” in an interview for “NBC's People of the Year” TV special.

Sullenberger, who safely ditched a US Airways plane in New York's Hudson River after geese hit the engines, is among those interviewed by Matt Lauer for the Thanksgiving Day special.

Lauer asked Sullenberger and his wife, Laurie, whether his sudden celebrity helped or hurt their relationship.

“He doesn't know I'm gonna say this, but I had joked the other day that ... the hero sex really helps a 20-year-old marriage,” Laurie Sullenberger said with a laugh, according to an NBC transcript.

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