Instant Latvian hero-celebrity

A latvian guy Jānis Krūms just became an instant celebrity-hero as being the one who helped in rescuing passengers of an airplane that miraculously crash-landed without any victims in Hudson river in New York last afternoon. The airplane apparently shortly after taking off flew into a flock of geese and got some of them in both of the engines that made them stop almost simultaneously.
What got the guy on the news is the photo he took and posted. It has been republished by many media around USA now:

Here's an interview with that Latvian guy. It's funny how the interviewer adjusted her pronunciation of his name from a mediocre American-like to a decent almost correct one - pronouncing the vowels long where she should have.

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