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Cactus 1549.

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Runway four. Cleared for takeoff.

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Cactus 1549. Cleared for takeoff.

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Mayday, mayday. Cactus 1549.

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We've lost both engines. Both engines.

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No relight on one or two.

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Cactus 1549,
if we can get it for you,

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do you wanna try to land runway 1-3?

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Departure control, we can make it.

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We're turning back towards LaGuardia.

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LaGuardia Tower, Cactus 1549,
trying to make 1-3.

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Sully, we're too low.

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Sully, we're too low!

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Come on.

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Just a little farther.

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Come on.

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Sully!

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Lorrie, I love you.

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What the hell's the matter with you?

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The onboard count, 150 passengers,

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three flight attendants
and two pilots, one of whom,

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the senior pilot, drew on
all of his experience and skill,

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which combined with
near-miraculous good luck

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and a result that was,
frankly, astounding.

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There were some non-critical injuries,

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but everyone, everyone, survived.

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The first pictures
of US Airways Flight 1549 reveal...

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You think that you're gonna die.
That's what you think.

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And then, miraculously, you don't.

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Thank you, Captain.

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Thank you, thank you.

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Okay, thank you,
everybody, thank you.

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Thank you, Captain Sullenberger,
for being here today.

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We also wanna welcome
First Officer Skiles.

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I'm glad you could make it in
this morning.

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Not as glad as we are.

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For the record,
we had an Aircraft Systems Team

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on this investigation.

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Also Aircraft Structures, MRT,

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Aircraft Performance, ATC,

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Wildlife Factors, Survival Factors
and Emergency Response.

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Today, we begin with our operation
and human performance investigation

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on the crash of US Airways Flight 1549.

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- Water landing.
- Captain?

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This was not a crash
and it wasn't a ditching.

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We knew what we were
trying to execute here.

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It was not a...

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It was not a crash.
It was a forced water landing.

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Why didn't you attempt
to return to LaGuardia?

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There simply was not enough altitude.

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The Hudson was the only place
that was long enough and smooth enough

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and wide enough to even attempt
to land the airplane safely.

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Air Traffic testified

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that you stated
you were returning to LaGuardia,

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but you did not.

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As I began the left turn,

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I realized I couldn't make it back

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and it would have eliminated
all the other options.

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Returning to LaGuardia
would have been a mistake.

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Okay, well, let's get into how you
calculated all those parameters.

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There was no time for calculating.

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I had to rely on my experience
of managing the altitude and speed

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of thousands of flights over four decades.

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You're saying you didn't do any...

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I eyeballed it.

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You eyeballed it?

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Yes.

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The best chance those passengers had
was on that river.

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And I'd bet my life on it.

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In fact, I did.

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And I would do it again.

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Aviation engineers are theorizing

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you had enough energy
to make it back to a runway.

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Well, engineers are not pilots.

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They're wrong.

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And they weren't there.

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Regardless, we have to follow up
on all implications

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as part of our investigation.

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Our computers will run
return scenario algorithms.

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It'll generate simulations
with your exact parameters.

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The dual engine loss, the altitude.

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Everything you faced
when you made your decision.

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I would like to oversee
those computer simulations.

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Not possible during an investigation.

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You stated that it was
a dual engine failure

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due to multiple bird strikes?

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That would be unprecedented.

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Well, everything is unprecedented
until it happens for the first time.

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How much sleep did you get
the night before?

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Eight hours. Enough.

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Is it possible your blood sugar was low?

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I was rested, alert
and completely aware of my surroundings.

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When was your last drink,
Captain Sullenberger?

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Nine days ago.

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Drugs?

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No. Never.

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First Officer Skiles?

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Don't drink. Never have.

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Captain, have you had
any troubles at home lately?

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No more than anyone else.

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And nothing that affected my work.

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It's bullshit.

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Why are they looking for something
we did wrong when it all turned out right?

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It didn't turn out all right
for the airline

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and their insurance company.

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We should expect some blowback.

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Come on, Mike. What are they gonna say?
That he shouldn't have saved everybody?

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It's not personal.
NTSB's just doing its job.

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Once they have all the facts,
it'll calm down.

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Sully,

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they should pin on the medal
and send you back to work.

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Sorry. This mailbox is full.

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I didn't call Lorrie since this morning.
Apparently everyone else did.

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Not meaning to bother, but I have to say,

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it is an honor driving you today.

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Thank you.

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What has it been this year so far?

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Bernie Madoff, two wars without end.
Many million new people with no work.

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And that's just the first
two weeks of January.

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Friday's headline? This is beautiful.

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Hey, Mike. How about we add
the driver as a character witness?

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Finally!

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Yeah, finally.

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The NTSB had us tied up all day.

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I know.

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I just needed to hear your voice.

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I've been hearing everybody else's.

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You'd be amazed how many cousins you have.

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It doesn't feel much like family here.

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Pretty quiet here, too.

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The reporters want me to give an update
inside the mind of Sully.

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What should I tell them?

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Lorrie, tell them you're not
allowed to talk to anybody.

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- Look, I can't hear you.
- Lorrie, I...

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- I can't hear you. Call me back.
- I'm trying to tell you

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you do not have to talk to anybody.

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I can't hear you. Call me back.

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Lorrie, I'm trying to tell...

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Hey, Captain Sully!

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- Captain Sully!
Sully!

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How does it feel to be a miracle maker?

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Sully, one question!

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- How did you pull off the impossible?
Sully!

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Captain Sully! Sully!

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Pardon me.

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Captain Sully!

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I'm thinking about
running over the press with the car.

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Self-defense.
You think a jury would convict?

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Just do what you have to do.

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You know, I'm taking that as permission.
The cops'll be coming after you.

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Sullenberger couldn't be here.

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He is not able to speak to the media

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while the NTSB
is conducting its investigation.

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Sully, are you listening to me?

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Maybe we should talk later.

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Honey, it is later.
I've been waiting all day.

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Are you okay?

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Yeah, just tired, that's all.

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How are the girls?

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Well, they're...

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They're a little overwhelmed.
It sounds like you are, too.

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Yeah...

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Yeah, well, they'll be all right.

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It is a lot.

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Yes, it is.

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Those missing engines

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were definitely not
what investigators wanted...

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The whole world is talking about you.

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My Sully.

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God, I just can't believe this.

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Lorrie, I have to stay here longer

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for the NTSB investigation.

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Did I tell you that already?
I apologize if I didn't tell you.

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There is no need for you to apologize.
You are right where you need to be.

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I want you to know,
I did the best I could.

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Of course you did. You saved everyone.

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Maybe we should
just talk in the morning. I'm tired.

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I'm overwhelmed by all this attention.

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I'm gonna be on TV in the morning.

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What are they gonna ask me?
What am I gonna say?

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Sully, do you want me to come be with you?

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No, Lorrie.

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Thanks, but the girls need you.

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Tell them I love them.

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I love you. Get some sleep.

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Yeah.

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Hey, maybe when I wake up,
it'll be January 14th.

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Wouldn't that be good?

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I love you.

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Why Captain Sullenberger
made that fateful decision

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to turn the Hudson into a runway?

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Well, only he can answer.

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But we now know it was the wrong choice.

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A choice that endangered the lives
of all of those onboard.

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So, while much of the country
hails him as a hero,

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this new information will certainly
change everyone's understanding

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of the so-called "Miracle on the Hudson. "

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Sully Sullenberger,
are you a hero or a fraud?

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- Hello?
Jeff?

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I'm sorry to call so late.

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It's okay.
There's no sleep in this room either.

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Can you believe they charge
$5 for a Snickers?

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I could bankrupt the airline
in about four bites.

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Just thought
maybe you would want to...

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Talk?

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Absolutely.

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Let's get some air.

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Great.

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All right. Be down there in five minutes.

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You enjoying the shakes?

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The nightmares, rapid heartbeat.

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A little bit.

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Union's offering us counseling.

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Yeah. What are they gonna say?

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"You were in a plane crash and lived.

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"It may have a minor impact
on your day-to-day. "

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I don't like not being
in control of the process.

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- I want my self back.
- Yeah.

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I'm hoping six months from now,
we'll just be laughing

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about how we got to meet David Letterman.

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We're doing David Letterman?

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Yeah. Right after the next NTSB interview.

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Letterman.

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I'm guessing Dave
is gonna be slightly funnier.

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This is so surreal.

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I guess I'm having a little trouble

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separating reality
from whatever the hell this is.

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Yeah.

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This is two men freezing their asses off.

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Sully.

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Don't worry. You did a great thing.

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It's gonna be remembered
for a very long time.

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Here's the funny thing.

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I've delivered a million passengers
over 40 years in the air,

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but in the end,
I'm gonna be judged on 208 seconds.

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Come on. Tomorrow's gonna be a good day.

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Computer sims will prove you were right.
We can all put our wings back on.

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You wanna run?

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Yeah, let's run.

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Fucking cold out here.

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It was obvious.

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It was a critical situation,

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losing thrust in both engines
at a low altitude

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over one of the most densely
populated areas of the planet.

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But choosing to land on the Hudson,
that was still a big "if. "

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I was sure I could do it.

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You were?

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Yes.

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How do you feel
when people call you a hero?

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I don't feel like a hero.

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I'm just a man who was doing his job.

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The right man for the job
at the right time.

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You've been flying for what,
nearly 40 years?

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Forty-two. It's been my life.

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My whole life.

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Your aircraft.

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My aircraft.

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00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:18,499
I'll be busy crop dusting
in the Super Cub rest of the summer.

259
00:15:18,667 --> 00:15:21,336
So, you can take the plane up, I guess,
when you please.

260
00:15:21,503 --> 00:15:23,588
Still six bucks an hour.
I'll consider it lesson time.

261
00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:27,258
A pilot never stops acquiring knowledge.

262
00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,345
You'll make mistakes, everyone does.
Just learn from them.

263
00:15:30,512 --> 00:15:31,846
Yes, sir.

264
00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:34,849
And never forget,
no matter what's happening,

265
00:15:35,017 --> 00:15:36,517
to fly the airplane.

266
00:15:36,685 --> 00:15:37,810
Absolutely, sir.

267
00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,273
Oh, one other thing,
and this is important.

268
00:15:42,441 --> 00:15:44,776
- Sir?
- You can go ahead and smile.

269
00:15:46,278 --> 00:15:47,403
All right.

270
00:15:55,788 --> 00:15:58,373
- I apologize for the perspiration.
- Oh, no.

271
00:15:58,624 --> 00:15:59,624
After what you did,

272
00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:01,709
I'd think that Katie
couldn't be too intimidating.

273
00:16:01,877 --> 00:16:03,086
Oh, it wasn't Katie.

274
00:16:03,253 --> 00:16:06,214
It was the lights and the camera
that she brought with her.

275
00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:08,174
Okay. All done.

276
00:16:10,219 --> 00:16:12,428
That was from my mom.

277
00:16:12,638 --> 00:16:13,721
Her name is Brenda,

278
00:16:13,889 --> 00:16:16,641
she says to say "thank you"
and that she's single.

279
00:16:17,059 --> 00:16:20,228
Well, you tell Brenda thank you,
but I've got a girl at home.

280
00:16:20,396 --> 00:16:23,439
- Lucky woman.
- Thank you.

281
00:16:59,268 --> 00:17:00,685
Sully.

282
00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:02,937
Sully. Sully!

283
00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:06,649
Sully, where are you?

284
00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,193
I'm standing here calling your name.

285
00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:11,863
What's up with you?

286
00:17:15,325 --> 00:17:17,035
You need to get focused.

287
00:17:17,619 --> 00:17:20,288
Because the media request
avalanche continues.

288
00:17:20,456 --> 00:17:21,664
Yeah. Yeah.

289
00:17:23,751 --> 00:17:25,126
Larry Rooney volunteered to jump in

290
00:17:25,294 --> 00:17:27,336
and ride shotgun with you
the rest of the way.

291
00:17:28,005 --> 00:17:29,630
Thought you might need a friend.

292
00:17:29,798 --> 00:17:31,966
He'll take you to today's NTSB meeting.

293
00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:35,303
Airbus completed their
computer simulations as well.

294
00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:37,388
Good. Good, that'll help.

295
00:17:37,556 --> 00:17:40,600
There's something else.
Arnie Gentile called.

296
00:17:41,143 --> 00:17:42,643
He has the ACARS data.

297
00:17:42,811 --> 00:17:45,146
The left engine
was still operating at idle.

298
00:17:45,481 --> 00:17:48,316
Not possible. I felt it go.

299
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:50,234
It was like we were stopped in midair.

300
00:17:50,402 --> 00:17:52,904
Arnie said there was a chance
it was sub-idle,

301
00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:54,864
that it still could've had thrust.

302
00:17:55,657 --> 00:17:58,826
I'm just letting you know
since the NTSB already does.

303
00:18:09,296 --> 00:18:10,797
Is retirement next?

304
00:18:12,341 --> 00:18:13,758
What's next for you? What's next?

305
00:18:14,343 --> 00:18:15,510
Some room, please.

306
00:18:15,803 --> 00:18:17,178
Sully! Over here!

307
00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,932
Hey, Larry. Good to see a friendly face.

308
00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:24,310
Might be the last one you see today.

309
00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:29,482
You've got to be kidding me.
We've been through all this before.

310
00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:30,942
Look,
I'm sorry if you're frustrated,

311
00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:34,153
but our job is to investigate
how a plane ended up in the Hudson River.

312
00:18:34,321 --> 00:18:35,988
On the Hudson River.

313
00:18:40,202 --> 00:18:42,829
Isn't it a little early in the year
to go fishing?

314
00:18:42,996 --> 00:18:45,498
Seeking the facts
is hardly "fishing," Mr. Skiles.

315
00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:47,125
Okay,
then here's the most important fact.

316
00:18:47,292 --> 00:18:49,585
There's only two people who know
what happened in the cockpit that day

317
00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:50,795
and I'm one of them.

318
00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:52,171
And we appreciate your perspective.

319
00:18:53,298 --> 00:18:55,299
Why do you even think we're here today?

320
00:18:56,426 --> 00:19:00,012
It's because Captain Sullenberger
did not head back to LaGuardia.

321
00:19:02,057 --> 00:19:04,725
Look, I just finished training on the A320
and I can tell you,

322
00:19:04,893 --> 00:19:06,727
the only reason the plane operated
as well as it did,

323
00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:08,437
that the aircraft could land anywhere,

324
00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:11,232
is because Captain Sullenberger
turned on the Auxiliary Power Unit.

325
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,526
He was simply following the QRH.

326
00:19:13,694 --> 00:19:15,153
No. No, he wasn't.

327
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,113
He wasn't following
proper procedure at all.

328
00:19:17,281 --> 00:19:19,490
And I know, because
I had the QRH in my hands.

329
00:19:20,117 --> 00:19:22,577
He switched on the APU immediately
after engine rollback.

330
00:19:23,412 --> 00:19:26,539
According to Airbus,
that's the 15th thing on the list to do.

331
00:19:26,707 --> 00:19:28,040
Fifteenth.

332
00:19:28,333 --> 00:19:30,877
If he had followed the damn rules,
we'd all be dead.

333
00:19:33,046 --> 00:19:34,797
Maybe that's the part you don't like.

334
00:19:34,965 --> 00:19:37,008
You're not used to having
answers to your guesses.

335
00:19:38,135 --> 00:19:39,844
Look, what Jeff is saying

336
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:44,140
is that I know the A320,
what it does and what it doesn't do.

337
00:19:44,308 --> 00:19:48,060
I have read countless CVR transcripts
of deceased pilots

338
00:19:48,228 --> 00:19:50,813
and I have significant
accident investigation experience.

339
00:19:51,315 --> 00:19:53,232
There is no question

340
00:19:53,483 --> 00:19:57,653
that you are a talented, dedicated,
experienced professional.

341
00:19:57,821 --> 00:20:00,364
But all the flights you piloted
before January 15th

342
00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:03,868
and every crash you investigated
are not the purview of this investigation.

343
00:20:04,453 --> 00:20:07,038
Only US Airways 1549 matters today.

344
00:20:07,956 --> 00:20:09,582
Your union has been advised.

345
00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:13,294
ACARS data relayed that the left engine

346
00:20:13,462 --> 00:20:15,338
continued to turn throughout the flight.

347
00:20:15,505 --> 00:20:17,089
Then the ACARS data is wrong.

348
00:20:17,257 --> 00:20:18,925
The evidence shows that the left engine

349
00:20:19,092 --> 00:20:22,345
was at idle or sub-idle
immediately following the bird strike.

350
00:20:22,512 --> 00:20:25,890
You show me the left engine,
I'll show you dead birds and no power.

351
00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:30,269
The left engine was lost in the crash
due to excessive damage on touchdown.

352
00:20:30,437 --> 00:20:32,647
But we can circle back to that later.

353
00:20:32,814 --> 00:20:35,691
Let's just assume that it was,
as you say,

354
00:20:35,859 --> 00:20:38,361
a dual engine loss due to bird strike.

355
00:20:38,528 --> 00:20:41,489
Your weight was 151,510 pounds,

356
00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:44,659
wind and temperature
north, northwest, 21 º.

357
00:20:44,826 --> 00:20:48,079
Speed and altitude
200 knots at 2,818 feet.

358
00:20:48,872 --> 00:20:50,289
- Agree?
- Correct.

359
00:20:50,457 --> 00:20:52,500
We were able to run
all the algorithms concurrently.

360
00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:57,129
And the resulting computer simulations
of US Airways Flight 1549

361
00:20:57,297 --> 00:21:00,091
show that the aviation engineers
were correct.

362
00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:03,427
There was enough altitude and speed
after the bird strike

363
00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:05,972
for a successful return to LaGuardia.

364
00:21:06,848 --> 00:21:07,890
Successful?

365
00:21:08,058 --> 00:21:10,393
The plane landed at LaGuardia.

366
00:21:10,852 --> 00:21:11,894
Intact.

367
00:21:12,729 --> 00:21:13,938
Undamaged.

368
00:21:14,106 --> 00:21:16,148
You got that from one computer simulation?

369
00:21:16,316 --> 00:21:17,358
No.

370
00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:18,693
From 20.

371
00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:22,196
Including attempts made for
Teterboro runways 1-9

372
00:21:22,364 --> 00:21:25,658
and LaGuardia runways 2-2 and 1-3.

373
00:21:25,826 --> 00:21:29,537
Every computer simulation
with the exact flight parameters

374
00:21:29,705 --> 00:21:33,124
demonstrated that a return
to LaGuardia was possible.

375
00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:34,875
And not just possible, probable.

376
00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:42,049
Does anyone need to hear
further computer evidence?

377
00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:46,345
Captain Sullenberger?

378
00:21:47,556 --> 00:21:48,806
First Officer Skiles?

379
00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:50,766
Not at this time.

380
00:21:51,685 --> 00:21:55,771
I would like to go over
the parameters that were used.

381
00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:58,399
We will make them available to the union.

382
00:21:58,567 --> 00:21:59,567
Thank you.

383
00:21:59,735 --> 00:22:01,527
Once the investigation is complete,

384
00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:04,447
we'll be able to share
the actual computer simulations.

385
00:22:04,614 --> 00:22:06,449
For now, they remain confidential.

386
00:22:06,616 --> 00:22:08,492
We cannot afford a leak to the press.

387
00:22:09,953 --> 00:22:12,413
There's been far too much talk
in the press already.

388
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:19,587
When the complete cockpit
voice recording is compiled,

389
00:22:19,755 --> 00:22:22,965
along with ATC
and all onboard transcripts combined,

390
00:22:23,633 --> 00:22:25,134
we will call you back.

391
00:22:26,595 --> 00:22:28,471
Thank you, gentlemen. Good day.

392
00:22:30,932 --> 00:22:32,099
Thank you.

393
00:22:39,483 --> 00:22:40,733
They're playing Pacman.

394
00:22:40,901 --> 00:22:43,486
You were flying a plane
full of human beings.

395
00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:47,615
Somehow, that's not how I remember it.

396
00:22:48,241 --> 00:22:49,575
It just doesn't seem right.

397
00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,744
It's because it's not right.

398
00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:54,455
Sully, you did everything you could
and it was more than enough.

399
00:22:55,248 --> 00:22:56,707
Ask the passengers.

400
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:59,168
Ask your wife and kids. Ask mine.

401
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:26,570
So what was the first thing
you heard from the cockpit?

402
00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:28,697
- "Brace for impact. " Yes.
- "Brace for impact. "

403
00:23:29,616 --> 00:23:31,617
Now, ever hear that before
coming out of a cockpit?

404
00:23:31,785 --> 00:23:33,202
No, not ever.

405
00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:39,333
Ever hear that in any other
aspect of your lives?

406
00:23:42,879 --> 00:23:44,130
I don't know.

407
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:46,257
I don't know.

408
00:23:50,137 --> 00:23:52,721
They could take this show away from me.

409
00:23:54,474 --> 00:23:56,559
Jeff was relaxed and funny.

410
00:23:57,144 --> 00:23:58,769
He should be getting
all of our interview requests.

411
00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:00,146
Are they paying you

412
00:24:00,647 --> 00:24:02,148
for all this media stuff at least?

413
00:24:02,315 --> 00:24:03,858
It's news, Lorr.

414
00:24:04,025 --> 00:24:05,609
No payment is necessary.

415
00:24:05,777 --> 00:24:07,611
Oh, I wish the bank felt the same way.

416
00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,155
Why? What do you mean?

417
00:24:09,322 --> 00:24:10,573
It's just...

418
00:24:11,741 --> 00:24:15,327
We got another notice
about the space in Butte County.

419
00:24:18,248 --> 00:24:19,498
We'll find a tenant.

420
00:24:19,666 --> 00:24:20,833
It just takes time.

421
00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,626
Yeah, you've been saying that
for nine months, Sully.

422
00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:23,878
It's still vacant.

423
00:24:24,045 --> 00:24:25,713
The economy has to take a turn.

424
00:24:26,214 --> 00:24:30,968
It feels like if we lose that space,
the next domino to fall is the house.

425
00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:34,013
Lorr, we're not gonna lose the house.

426
00:24:34,181 --> 00:24:35,473
I'm sorry.

427
00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:37,266
I'm sorry.

428
00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:39,059
I'm just anxious

429
00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,896
and I'm alone and not enough sleep.

430
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:43,230
Yeah, I know.

431
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,608
Not a lot of sleep going on here either.

432
00:24:45,775 --> 00:24:47,610
I'm sorry if I'm adding to your stress.

433
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:50,154
But just tell me
you'll be back in the air soon.

434
00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:53,657
Not until the NTSB
is finished with their investigation.

435
00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:55,784
We need you flying.

436
00:24:55,952 --> 00:24:58,913
Lorr, if this goes badly,

437
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:04,084
my career as a safety expert
will end as a website and a business card.

438
00:25:04,252 --> 00:25:06,504
I'm more worried
about your career as a pilot.

439
00:25:10,592 --> 00:25:12,593
What if I did blow this?

440
00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:14,637
What are you saying?

441
00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:19,141
What if I did get this wrong,
so close to the end of my career?

442
00:25:19,935 --> 00:25:23,187
If I endangered the lives
of all those passengers?

443
00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:28,359
Sully, watch the news. You're a hero.

444
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:31,111
Everyone's gonna have to get used to it,
including the NTSB.

445
00:25:32,614 --> 00:25:34,281
Worst case scenario,

446
00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:37,159
the NTSB lists me as the probable cause.

447
00:25:37,327 --> 00:25:39,954
That's immediate retirement. No pension.

448
00:25:40,622 --> 00:25:41,664
My life's work gone.

449
00:25:41,831 --> 00:25:44,959
Okay, you're scaring me now, Sully.
What is going on?

450
00:25:45,710 --> 00:25:49,004
The left engine might have
still been idling.

451
00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:51,882
And the Airbus simulations say

452
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:55,010
I could've made it back
to LaGuardia safely.

453
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:57,179
But that doesn't make sense.

454
00:25:57,681 --> 00:26:01,642
Doesn't jibe with everything
I felt in the cockpit.

455
00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:04,520
Then why did you do it, Sully?

456
00:26:05,730 --> 00:26:07,481
What, land in the water?

457
00:26:08,483 --> 00:26:10,901
Wasn't that the most dangerous thing
you could have done?

458
00:26:18,159 --> 00:26:20,661
Good afternoon, Gursimran.

459
00:26:22,831 --> 00:26:24,915
The, tuna basil
or the ham and cheddar?

460
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:27,543
Tuna basil, Mr. Sully. Very fresh.

461
00:26:31,172 --> 00:26:33,090
- Thank you.
- Be careful up there.

462
00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:35,217
Too cold today. Too much cold.

463
00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,720
When are you gonna come fly with me?

464
00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:40,848
When US Air starts flights to Hyderabad.

465
00:26:41,182 --> 00:26:44,518
I will talk to the chairman,
see what we can work out.

466
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:48,606
Oh, for heaven's sakes, Diane!
No!

467
00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:50,441
- It's his birthday!
- Come on! No, Mom!

468
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,026
Just a little something.

469
00:26:52,193 --> 00:26:54,403
The suitcase is already overstuffed
with gifts for Will.

470
00:26:54,571 --> 00:26:56,488
It's always fun to get
something from the airport.

471
00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:58,532
Feels like you've traveled, too.

472
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,451
Ma, he's turning one.

473
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:03,370
Don't think he'll be discerning
what gift came from where.

474
00:27:03,538 --> 00:27:04,913
But I will.

475
00:27:05,081 --> 00:27:06,957
Maybe a snow globe.

476
00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:09,627
Something he'll remember.
Something "New York. "

477
00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:12,046
Were you this generous when we were kids?

478
00:27:12,213 --> 00:27:13,380
Okay, sweetheart.

479
00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:15,883
I'll get you a snow globe, too.

480
00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:19,053
Fine. Come on.

481
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:32,608
Good afternoon, Sheila.
Captain.

482
00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:36,236
- Hello, Donna.
Captain.

483
00:27:36,404 --> 00:27:38,364
- Jeff.
- Hey, Sully. How are ya?

484
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:44,411
Hey, guys! Jeff!

485
00:27:44,579 --> 00:27:45,746
We're not gonna make it!

486
00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:47,081
I've been waiting for a year
for this trip, Dad.

487
00:27:47,248 --> 00:27:49,458
I'm not gonna miss this flight.
Just meet us at the gate, okay?

488
00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:51,293
We'll see you there, Uncle Robbie.

489
00:27:53,755 --> 00:27:55,964
Altimeter is verified. 3-0-2-3.

490
00:27:56,132 --> 00:27:58,258
3-0-2-3.

491
00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:03,430
Start checklist complete.

492
00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:08,894
You really think they'll release us?

493
00:28:09,604 --> 00:28:10,771
I've checked the latest reports.

494
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:12,398
We're clear all the way to Charlotte.

495
00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:15,275
Then steaks.

496
00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:17,152
Del Frisco's. On me.

497
00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:18,779
Never been.

498
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:20,280
And I hear good things.

499
00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:21,532
Oh.

500
00:28:22,617 --> 00:28:24,243
The rib eye'll break your heart.

501
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:26,954
I'm more of a porterhouse man.

502
00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:29,915
The porterhouse will stop your heart.

503
00:28:30,583 --> 00:28:32,710
We are now closed
for US Airways flight 1549,

504
00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:33,794
service to Charlotte...

505
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:34,962
Wait, wait!

506
00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:36,422
You got it.
- Wait, wait, wait!

507
00:28:36,965 --> 00:28:38,132
Hi. I'm sorry.

508
00:28:38,633 --> 00:28:39,967
Spirit sent us.

509
00:28:40,135 --> 00:28:41,969
We got canceled and they said
that we were re-routed.

510
00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:43,429
That you guys had some seats?

511
00:28:43,596 --> 00:28:44,638
Flight is closed.

512
00:28:44,806 --> 00:28:47,307
Wait, see that old guy
limping up right there?

513
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:49,643
That's my dad. It's an emergency.
He's gotta be on this flight.

514
00:28:49,811 --> 00:28:51,478
What kind of emergency?

515
00:28:51,646 --> 00:28:54,273
- Golf emergency.
- This flight canceled?

516
00:28:54,441 --> 00:28:55,816
Oughta be.

517
00:28:56,693 --> 00:28:58,318
- ID's please.
- Oh, my God!

518
00:28:58,486 --> 00:28:59,486
How many people are traveling?

519
00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:00,779
Three. Thank you.

520
00:29:00,947 --> 00:29:02,489
Nothing together.

521
00:29:02,657 --> 00:29:04,324
That's all right.
Hell, I'll fly on the wing.

522
00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:06,827
Here we go.

523
00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:08,287
22A,

524
00:29:08,455 --> 00:29:09,496
6A

525
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:11,123
and 6C.

526
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:12,624
- Thank you. Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

527
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:13,834
Thank you.

528
00:29:14,002 --> 00:29:16,128
- Yes! What!
Happy ending.

529
00:29:16,504 --> 00:29:19,006
- She gave me the eye.
- You charming bastard!

530
00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:20,340
- Ahoy.
- Welcome aboard.

531
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:21,508
- How's it going?
- Lucky you made it.

532
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:22,968
- Yeah, no kidding.
- All right.

533
00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:24,303
- Thank you. Sorry.
- Thank you!

534
00:29:24,471 --> 00:29:26,680
We're in six, Jeff.
- Oh, no. That's all Jimmy.

535
00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:28,515
I was up till 3:00.
I gotta get some sleep.

536
00:29:28,683 --> 00:29:29,933
You can sleep here.

537
00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,852
Not with you verbally running
the course the whole time.

538
00:29:32,020 --> 00:29:33,771
"I think I'll play
the seven iron on the 9th. "

539
00:29:33,938 --> 00:29:35,272
No. Good night.

540
00:29:38,067 --> 00:29:39,735
Sorry. Excuse me.

541
00:29:43,114 --> 00:29:44,698
Here. There you go.

542
00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:46,533
- Thanks.
- Yeah, of course.

543
00:29:49,078 --> 00:29:50,537
Hey, guys, I'm in here.

544
00:29:50,705 --> 00:29:51,789
I'm so sorry.

545
00:29:51,956 --> 00:29:53,207
He likes to throw everything.

546
00:29:53,374 --> 00:29:55,375
That's perfect.
I like to catch everything.

547
00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:57,628
Hey, little man.

548
00:29:58,087 --> 00:29:59,546
I googled you last night.

549
00:30:00,131 --> 00:30:03,300
Read all about your company
on your website.

550
00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:05,719
It's impressive.

551
00:30:06,429 --> 00:30:07,429
Thanks.

552
00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:12,351
I thought I was
a good bullshitter, but you?

553
00:30:12,852 --> 00:30:13,936
You could go pro.

554
00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:15,145
Hey.

555
00:30:15,313 --> 00:30:16,897
Oh, I'm only teasing.

556
00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:18,148
The site does make it sound

557
00:30:18,316 --> 00:30:20,901
like your air safety consulting business
has got about 100 employees

558
00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:24,112
and headquarters in three states.

559
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,656
Then when I dug a little deeper,

560
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,242
I realized it's only you.

561
00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:30,452
Go easy.

562
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,579
I'm just getting it going.

563
00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:34,957
I'm not usually accused
of being a bullshitter.

564
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:37,751
Don't get me wrong.
Actually, it's a compliment.

565
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:40,754
Off that website? I'd hire you.

566
00:30:40,922 --> 00:30:42,923
Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.

567
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:45,300
Welcome onboard US Airways Flight 1549

568
00:30:45,468 --> 00:30:46,844
with service to Charlotte.

569
00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:50,097
Please review the safety instruction card
in the seatback pocket in front of you.

570
00:30:50,265 --> 00:30:52,599
It explains the safety features
of this aircraft

571
00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:56,019
as well as the location and operation
of the exit and flotation devices.

572
00:30:56,187 --> 00:30:58,772
Your seat cushion serves
as a flotation device.

573
00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:02,192
LaGuardia ramp, Cactus 1549.
Ready for pushback at gate 21.

574
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,361
Cactus 1549, gate 21 cleared to push.

575
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:05,863
Spot 28, ground for taxi.

576
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:15,122
Be sure you turn that off.

577
00:31:16,457 --> 00:31:17,791
Tray table up.

578
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:38,145
Just once I'd like to
get out of LaGuardia on time.

579
00:31:38,688 --> 00:31:41,148
Well, you know the only way to
get out of LaGuardia on time.

580
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:42,524
Yeah, what's that?

581
00:31:42,692 --> 00:31:44,818
Fly out of JFK.

582
00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:45,986
Funny.

583
00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:57,497
Takeoff minimum fuel quantity verify.

584
00:31:57,665 --> 00:31:58,665
19,000 pounds required.

585
00:31:58,833 --> 00:32:00,167
We got 21.8 onboard.

586
00:32:00,335 --> 00:32:03,045
19,000 pounds required. 21.8 onboard.

587
00:32:03,212 --> 00:32:06,256
Cactus 1549.
Runway 4. Cleared for takeoff.

588
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:09,009
Cactus 1549. Cleared for takeoff.

589
00:32:15,475 --> 00:32:16,850
TO/GA.

590
00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:18,352
TO/GA set.

591
00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:43,168
Positive rate.

592
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:45,003
Gear up, please.

593
00:32:46,673 --> 00:32:47,673
Gear up.

594
00:32:58,226 --> 00:32:59,893
Nice view of the Hudson.

595
00:33:00,687 --> 00:33:03,438
I'll never get over
how beautiful it is up here.

596
00:33:04,273 --> 00:33:06,149
Life's easier in the air.

597
00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:07,985
I guess it is.

598
00:33:10,446 --> 00:33:11,446
Birds!

599
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:21,915
Oh, shit.

600
00:33:22,458 --> 00:33:23,458
Oh, yeah.

601
00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:31,508
It's just turbulence, probably.

602
00:33:31,676 --> 00:33:32,968
I'll check the cabin.

603
00:33:33,469 --> 00:33:34,636
What do you think's going on?

604
00:33:36,764 --> 00:33:37,764
It's okay.

605
00:33:38,266 --> 00:33:41,601
Everyone, might be a good idea
just to keep your seat belts on.

606
00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:45,856
We got one rolling back.

607
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:50,444
We have both of them rolling back.

608
00:33:54,866 --> 00:33:56,033
Ignition start.

609
00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:04,666
Oh, my God.

610
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,461
I'm starting the APU.

611
00:34:11,632 --> 00:34:13,300
Just double-check your seat belts, please.

612
00:34:13,468 --> 00:34:14,468
Seat belt. Relax.

613
00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:15,969
Can I make sure
your seatbelts are fastened?

614
00:34:16,137 --> 00:34:17,637
Make sure
your seat belts are fastened.

615
00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:21,391
Seat belts.

616
00:34:25,229 --> 00:34:28,065
- What do you think that was?
- I think it was a bird strike.

617
00:34:28,691 --> 00:34:30,817
- Then we're going back to LaGuardia.
- Yeah.

618
00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:32,778
Get out the QRH.

619
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:35,072
Loss of thrust on both engines.

620
00:34:35,531 --> 00:34:37,657
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
This is Cactus 1549.

621
00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:38,825
We hit birds.

622
00:34:38,993 --> 00:34:40,827
Maintain 1-5000, Delta 3-3-1.

623
00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:44,414
We've lost thrust on both engines.
We are turning back towards LaGuardia.

624
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:46,374
Okay, you need to return to LaGuardia?

625
00:34:46,834 --> 00:34:48,877
- Turn left heading 2-2-0.
2-2-0.

626
00:34:49,045 --> 00:34:50,504
Which engine did you lose?

627
00:34:50,671 --> 00:34:51,838
Both. Both engines.

628
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:53,006
- Supe?
Yeah?

629
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:54,633
I have an emergency.

630
00:34:56,886 --> 00:34:57,886
What's the report?

631
00:34:58,096 --> 00:34:59,137
Both engines.

632
00:34:59,347 --> 00:35:01,515
- What?
- Both engines gone. No thrust.

633
00:35:03,851 --> 00:35:04,851
All right.

634
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:07,521
LaGuardia says go to runway 1-3.

635
00:35:07,855 --> 00:35:10,315
Tower, stop your departure.
Got an emergency returning.

636
00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:12,109
1549, bird strike.

637
00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:14,069
He lost both engines.
Returning immediately.

638
00:35:14,237 --> 00:35:15,237
Which engine?

639
00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:17,739
He lost thrust in both engines, he said.

640
00:35:18,282 --> 00:35:21,785
Cactus 1549, if we can get it for you,
do you wanna try to land runway 1-3?

641
00:35:23,412 --> 00:35:25,622
We are unable.
We may end up in the Hudson.

642
00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:29,751
I got an A320 diving for the river.

643
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:31,586
Al, stack all the inbounds to LaGuardia.

644
00:35:31,754 --> 00:35:33,380
Let's put a hold on the tower, please.

645
00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:34,756
Come on, guys, stay on point.

646
00:35:34,924 --> 00:35:35,966
What about over to our right?

647
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:38,385
Anything in New Jersey? Maybe Teterboro?

648
00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:39,553
Teterboro tower, I need a runway.

649
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:41,346
Cactus 1549 needs to go
to the airport right now.

650
00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:42,889
Newark tower, what have you got?

651
00:35:43,057 --> 00:35:44,683
You have runway 2-9 cleared and ready.

652
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:46,226
- You need emergency landing?
- Yes.

653
00:35:46,394 --> 00:35:47,394
Okay, yeah.

654
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:49,563
Off your right side is Teterboro airport.

655
00:35:53,609 --> 00:35:54,860
Shit.

656
00:35:55,695 --> 00:35:57,404
This is the Captain.

657
00:35:57,572 --> 00:35:59,114
Brace for impact.

658
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,407
Oh, my God.

659
00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:01,700
What?

660
00:36:01,909 --> 00:36:03,451
Brace, brace, brace!

661
00:36:03,786 --> 00:36:06,288
Heads down, stay down!

662
00:36:06,706 --> 00:36:08,874
Brace, brace, brace!

663
00:36:09,041 --> 00:36:11,501
Heads down, stay down!

664
00:36:11,669 --> 00:36:13,628
Cactus 1549, turn right 2-8-0.

665
00:36:13,796 --> 00:36:15,463
You can land runway one Teterboro.

666
00:36:15,631 --> 00:36:16,756
We can't make it.

667
00:36:16,924 --> 00:36:18,466
We're gonna end up in the Hudson.

668
00:36:18,634 --> 00:36:20,594
I'm sorry. Say again, Cactus?

669
00:36:25,558 --> 00:36:27,976
Cactus 1549, radar contact lost.

670
00:36:28,477 --> 00:36:29,895
KC, come on over here.

671
00:36:30,062 --> 00:36:33,106
You also got Newark off your two o'clock
in about seven miles.

672
00:36:34,817 --> 00:36:36,359
Don't go in the river.

673
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:38,111
Sir?
- Plug in.

674
00:36:41,699 --> 00:36:43,200
Cactus 1549, if you can,

675
00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:45,785
you got runway 2-9 available at Newark.

676
00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:47,787
It'll be two o'clock in seven miles.

677
00:36:48,456 --> 00:36:49,497
Come on.

678
00:36:50,249 --> 00:36:51,625
Please, God.

679
00:36:55,671 --> 00:36:56,880
I'm sorry, Patrick.

680
00:36:57,048 --> 00:36:59,299
He's inbound to Newark, I know it.
He just went off the box to focus.

681
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:00,508
Patty.

682
00:37:00,718 --> 00:37:02,052
He'll come back up.

683
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:03,929
He's heading to Teterboro.

684
00:37:04,096 --> 00:37:06,014
We need other eyes and ears.

685
00:37:06,557 --> 00:37:09,059
Attention, all aircraft
in the vicinity of the GW.

686
00:37:11,103 --> 00:37:12,938
When we come up
around this bend up here,

687
00:37:13,105 --> 00:37:14,856
we'll see the USS Intrepid.

688
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:16,942
We got an A320 on emergency descent.

689
00:37:17,109 --> 00:37:20,737
Cactus 1549 is low level above the Hudson.

690
00:37:20,905 --> 00:37:24,532
This is helicopter 1-6-7, Mike Tango.
I've got eyes on him.

691
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:26,201
Okay. I got a chopper with visuals.

692
00:37:26,369 --> 00:37:28,286
I'm staying on this.

693
00:37:28,454 --> 00:37:29,955
He's out there.

694
00:37:30,831 --> 00:37:34,751
He's headed to Newark, seven miles.
It's only seven miles.

695
00:37:35,711 --> 00:37:41,049
Cactus 1549, this is departure control.
On guard, do you read?

696
00:37:41,801 --> 00:37:43,468
He's going down.

697
00:37:44,345 --> 00:37:46,263
Cactus 1549, do you read me?

698
00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:50,308
Shit! He's going down!
He's gonna hit the water.

699
00:37:51,686 --> 00:37:54,062
- KC, take his seat.
- Sure.

700
00:37:59,777 --> 00:38:00,902
Tester's gonna come down.

701
00:38:01,195 --> 00:38:04,239
Breathalyzer, urine samples,
it's standard.

702
00:38:04,740 --> 00:38:06,700
His voice was so calm.

703
00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:10,203
When he said the Hudson,
I didn't believe it.

704
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:13,456
This isn't happening.

705
00:38:14,417 --> 00:38:16,918
People don't survive
water landings, Henry.

706
00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:25,802
Pull up. Pull up.

707
00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:27,220
We're gonna brace.

708
00:38:27,972 --> 00:38:28,972
Pull up! Pull up!

709
00:38:29,223 --> 00:38:30,265
Thirty.

710
00:38:30,933 --> 00:38:32,100
Twenty.

711
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:33,893
Ten.

712
00:38:38,232 --> 00:38:39,733
I'd better go.

713
00:38:41,277 --> 00:38:44,029
I am so sorry. I love you.

714
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:47,324
Yeah. I gotta go.

715
00:38:58,085 --> 00:39:00,670
It hadjust taken off
from New York's LaGuardia Airport,

716
00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:02,922
bound for Charlotte, North Carolina,

717
00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:04,924
and then a mid-air disaster

718
00:39:05,092 --> 00:39:08,261
struck US Airways Flight 1549.

719
00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:12,223
It's possible that birds flew into
both of the aircraft engines.

720
00:39:12,391 --> 00:39:16,102
The pilot quickly realized he could not
return to the airport and land.

721
00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:18,104
His options severely limited,

722
00:39:18,272 --> 00:39:21,232
the only place he could go down
was the Hudson River.

723
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:37,123
Choosing to land
on the Hudson, that was a big "if. "

724
00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:39,250
Have you had
any troubles at home lately?

725
00:39:39,418 --> 00:39:41,920
Why'd you do it, Sully?
Land in the water?

726
00:39:42,088 --> 00:39:44,339
Sully, you did everything
you could. It was more than enough.

727
00:39:44,507 --> 00:39:48,093
Every computer simulation
demonstrated that a return was possible.

728
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,220
The left engine
was still operating at idle.

729
00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:53,932
There was enough altitude and speed
for a successful return to LaGuardia.

730
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,226
Wasn't that the most
dangerous thing you could have done?

731
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,502
This is Tasty 1-1.
Abort test bombing run.

732
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:24,295
I have an emergency
flight control malfunction.

733
00:40:24,463 --> 00:40:25,797
Two, join on me.

734
00:40:25,965 --> 00:40:28,007
Roger that.
Two joining on you.

735
00:40:28,717 --> 00:40:31,511
- Feels like hydraulics.
Sir, do we need to punch out?

736
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:34,222
No, I can still fly.
I'm running a control test.

737
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:36,141
Get the checklist.

738
00:40:36,308 --> 00:40:37,517
We have the checklist, sir.

739
00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,269
Increasing thrust.
We need altitude.

740
00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:40,728
Hold on, we're gonna climb.

741
00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:46,025
Nellis Tower, this is Tasty 1-1

742
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,569
with an emergency
flight control malfunction.

743
00:40:47,736 --> 00:40:48,820
We need a straight-in approach.

744
00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:50,947
Roger, Tasty 1-1.

745
00:40:51,115 --> 00:40:53,491
Turn left 2-0-0 to runway 3.

746
00:40:53,659 --> 00:40:55,827
Unable.
I repeat, I need a straight-in approach.

747
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,120
Okay.

748
00:40:57,371 --> 00:40:58,830
Proceed straight ahead to runway 2-1.

749
00:40:58,998 --> 00:41:00,540
2-1, Tasty 1-1.

750
00:41:03,377 --> 00:41:05,128
Two, I'm decreasing speed.

751
00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:07,130
Clear the board for a damage check.

752
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:17,015
One, you look clean and dry,
but you're still trailing smoke.

753
00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:19,392
Roger that, Two.
Approach runway 2-1.

754
00:41:19,935 --> 00:41:22,228
One, I'll maintain chase
and follow you in.

755
00:41:30,738 --> 00:41:31,738
I have visual on the runway.

756
00:41:31,906 --> 00:41:33,072
What's our heading?

757
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,575
Heading 0-2-0.
Five miles out, sir.

758
00:41:36,243 --> 00:41:37,827
All right. Gear in three.

759
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,209
Tasty 1-1, check air speed.

760
00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:46,211
Looks like you're coming in hot.

761
00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:48,171
Nellis Tower,
I need speed to maintain control.

762
00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:50,256
Avoiding a stall.

763
00:41:53,427 --> 00:41:55,887
One, check your heading.
You're not gonna make the runway.

764
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:57,096
I got it.

765
00:41:57,765 --> 00:41:59,265
I'm bringing her back.

766
00:42:16,951 --> 00:42:19,244
That was a hell of a landing, sir.

767
00:42:19,411 --> 00:42:21,538
I didn't think we were gonna make it.

768
00:42:50,609 --> 00:42:52,443
I'm gonna start charging you
for this stuff, all right?

769
00:42:52,611 --> 00:42:54,279
Oh, get out ofhere.
- You hear me?

770
00:42:54,613 --> 00:42:55,822
- Thanks, Pete.
- Thanks, Pete.

771
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:56,990
You got any nuts?

772
00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,033
- Hey.
- Hey.

773
00:42:59,201 --> 00:43:01,160
Let me know if you need anything.

774
00:43:01,328 --> 00:43:03,580
But what still seems so hard to believe

775
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,374
is that everyone
aboard the plane survived,

776
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:09,544
including two shivering babies
who were found in a life raft...

777
00:43:09,795 --> 00:43:10,795
Hey...

778
00:43:12,172 --> 00:43:13,881
Is that you?

779
00:43:14,049 --> 00:43:16,342
- Are you the pilot? Sully?
- Yeah.

780
00:43:16,510 --> 00:43:18,261
- That is you, right?
- Yeah.

781
00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:20,513
Hey, it's a pleasure to meet you.

782
00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:23,891
That was unreal,
what you did the other day.

783
00:43:24,059 --> 00:43:26,352
- That was really something.
Yeah, he's a hero.

784
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,563
A real pleasure to meet you.

785
00:43:28,731 --> 00:43:30,231
You know, we invented a drink after you

786
00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:31,983
as soon as that happened.
Ain't that right, Johnny?

787
00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:33,943
Yeah, you did. In fact, I'll take one.

788
00:43:34,486 --> 00:43:36,237
The Sully!

789
00:43:37,531 --> 00:43:39,115
It's a shot of Grey Goose

790
00:43:40,743 --> 00:43:42,285
with a, splash of water.

791
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:44,203
Splash of water.

792
00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:48,791
Hey, listen.

793
00:43:49,543 --> 00:43:51,169
To January 15th.

794
00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:52,962
Best day of the year.

795
00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:54,380
To Sully.
Sully.

796
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:00,720
Hey, Pete.

797
00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:03,139
Sully's here, and he's there!

798
00:44:03,307 --> 00:44:05,600
Damn, Pete. He's everywhere!

799
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:07,435
Yeah!

800
00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:08,770
Sully!

801
00:44:10,898 --> 00:44:13,066
You're like a real hero, man.
You know that?

802
00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:24,243
Keep it coming, Paulie.
I'll see you on One.

803
00:44:24,411 --> 00:44:25,411
Agreed.

804
00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:32,669
Twenty-one people onboard, Cap.

805
00:44:32,836 --> 00:44:34,545
Last report says
there's ice out by the GW.

806
00:44:34,713 --> 00:44:36,756
- All right, thanks. Roger that.
- All right.

807
00:44:36,924 --> 00:44:39,342
Twenty-one on the TJ,
departing Midtown, slip Seven.

808
00:44:51,605 --> 00:44:52,605
Unbelievable.

809
00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:54,982
I cannot believe
you have the sack to say that.

810
00:44:55,150 --> 00:44:57,026
That's literally like giving
the entire city the finger.

811
00:44:57,194 --> 00:44:58,194
I'll say it again.

812
00:44:58,404 --> 00:44:59,445
Dennis Eckersley is without question

813
00:44:59,613 --> 00:45:01,739
the greatest relief pitcher
in the history of baseball.

814
00:45:01,907 --> 00:45:03,282
Are you blinded by the leg kick?

815
00:45:03,450 --> 00:45:05,493
Is that what it is? Or is it the mustache?

816
00:45:05,661 --> 00:45:07,370
You're just jealous he was never a Yankee.

817
00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:08,538
Jealous?

818
00:45:08,997 --> 00:45:10,123
Yeah.

819
00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:33,312
Now, let's turn to page seven...

820
00:45:46,493 --> 00:45:48,411
Brace, brace, brace!

821
00:45:48,579 --> 00:45:49,579
Heads down, stay down!

822
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:51,247
Let me hold him.

823
00:45:51,415 --> 00:45:52,665
- Brace, brace, brace!
- It's okay. Let me hold him.

824
00:45:52,833 --> 00:45:54,000
Okay.

825
00:45:54,168 --> 00:45:56,043
Heads down, stay down!

826
00:45:56,211 --> 00:45:58,212
Brace, brace, brace!

827
00:45:58,380 --> 00:45:59,422
Heads down, stay down!

828
00:45:59,590 --> 00:46:01,674
- We're not gonna make it, Uncle Robbie.
- It's okay.

829
00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:02,842
Brace, brace, brace!

830
00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:04,343
I love you, Mom.

831
00:46:04,511 --> 00:46:06,888
- Heads down, stay down!
- To the moon and the stars

832
00:46:07,055 --> 00:46:08,848
- and all the way back.
- And all the way back.

833
00:46:09,016 --> 00:46:11,684
Heads down, stay down!

834
00:46:37,085 --> 00:46:38,461
What do we do, darling?

835
00:46:53,143 --> 00:46:54,310
Oh, my God.

836
00:46:58,649 --> 00:46:59,857
Evacuate.

837
00:47:02,110 --> 00:47:03,194
Evacuate.

838
00:47:04,404 --> 00:47:05,780
Grab your life vests, please.

839
00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:07,573
Opening forward door.

840
00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:17,834
It's flooding back here!

841
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:19,460
Rob Kolodjay!

842
00:47:19,628 --> 00:47:21,587
- Dad!
- Go, go, go!

843
00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:26,467
Everyone! The aft exits are unusable.

844
00:47:26,635 --> 00:47:29,011
Move forward to the overwing exits!

845
00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:31,430
And don life vests now!

846
00:47:41,358 --> 00:47:43,526
Go! Exit! Go, go!

847
00:47:45,153 --> 00:47:46,153
Move forward.

848
00:47:46,363 --> 00:47:47,363
Move forward to the right
or left exit door.

849
00:47:47,531 --> 00:47:48,531
Jeff!

850
00:47:48,699 --> 00:47:49,866
He's back there, can you see him?

851
00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:51,617
Dad!

852
00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:02,295
Everyone, come forward.
- Jump!

853
00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:07,466
Sir, evacuate the plane right now! Go!

854
00:48:12,514 --> 00:48:13,973
Sheila, the raft didn't deploy.

855
00:48:18,979 --> 00:48:20,479
Sir! Come back, sir!

856
00:48:21,732 --> 00:48:22,982
Calm down. You'll be fine.

857
00:48:23,150 --> 00:48:24,483
The rafts are waiting.

858
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:30,656
Come on, come on, come on.

859
00:48:30,824 --> 00:48:32,074
Hurry up!

860
00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:33,826
It's gonna be bitter out there.
Here you go.

861
00:48:33,994 --> 00:48:36,746
Here. Gonna be bitter out there.

862
00:48:38,957 --> 00:48:39,957
Slowly.

863
00:48:40,167 --> 00:48:41,417
You need to get off this plane now.

864
00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:43,210
Feet first.
Slide slowly and gently.

865
00:48:43,378 --> 00:48:45,046
- Plenty of room.
Come on, people.

866
00:48:49,593 --> 00:48:52,720
Okay. It's good now. Jump! Jump!

867
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:10,237
Oh, my God. Is that gas?

868
00:49:11,406 --> 00:49:12,531
We have to jump.

869
00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:14,200
No, no, no, wait!

870
00:49:24,878 --> 00:49:26,045
You seeing this?

871
00:49:26,213 --> 00:49:28,422
Yeah. Holy Christ, that's a plane.

872
00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:30,925
Deploy that
man overboard ladder right away.

873
00:49:31,093 --> 00:49:32,259
All right, I'm on it.

874
00:49:32,469 --> 00:49:33,552
Shit.

875
00:49:34,388 --> 00:49:35,638
Mayday, mayday, mayday.

876
00:49:35,806 --> 00:49:38,391
Coast Guard sector New York,
channel 1-6, Thomas Jefferson.

877
00:49:38,558 --> 00:49:41,644
We have a passenger airliner
in the north river.

878
00:49:41,812 --> 00:49:44,105
We're en route. We will advise.

879
00:49:44,564 --> 00:49:46,983
Let's go, let's go!

880
00:50:02,082 --> 00:50:04,834
Jimmy, Jeff's still on that plane!

881
00:50:05,669 --> 00:50:06,669
We can't leave him there!

882
00:50:06,837 --> 00:50:08,421
Robbie, Robbie. Robbie!

883
00:50:08,588 --> 00:50:10,798
Robbie! The crew will grab him, okay?

884
00:50:10,966 --> 00:50:12,258
- The crew will get him, okay?
- He's in there!

885
00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:15,011
He'll be okay. He'll be okay.

886
00:50:15,345 --> 00:50:18,097
I'm okay, Mom. I'm okay.

887
00:50:21,435 --> 00:50:22,768
- Ma!
- Just leave me.

888
00:50:22,936 --> 00:50:24,770
Keep moving forward!

889
00:50:24,938 --> 00:50:26,605
Follow your instructions.

890
00:50:26,773 --> 00:50:28,607
- It's all right.
There's water in the back.

891
00:50:28,775 --> 00:50:30,151
- We're doing fine.
Come on. Let's get out!

892
00:50:30,318 --> 00:50:32,611
One after another. Keep moving forward.
Keep moving forward.

893
00:50:32,779 --> 00:50:34,280
This way. I'll help you out.

894
00:50:34,448 --> 00:50:35,573
You go ahead, sweetheart.

895
00:50:35,782 --> 00:50:36,782
Come on. She can't move.

896
00:50:36,950 --> 00:50:38,075
- Sir! Can you come help us?
Yes, ma'am?

897
00:50:38,243 --> 00:50:39,243
Right there.

898
00:50:39,411 --> 00:50:41,787
Here's a floatation device.
Take that.

899
00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:44,790
Everyone, keep moving forward.

900
00:50:44,958 --> 00:50:46,751
Over the wings.

901
00:50:48,086 --> 00:50:50,421
If you have a life vest, put it on!

902
00:50:50,839 --> 00:50:53,090
All series near the Intrepid,
plane down.

903
00:50:53,258 --> 00:50:56,343
We got passengers on the wings.
Approach with caution.

904
00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:02,933
Stay calm and you'll all get out.

905
00:51:04,436 --> 00:51:05,436
Thank you.

906
00:51:07,731 --> 00:51:09,190
Move forward, move forward.

907
00:51:15,906 --> 00:51:17,031
Come on!

908
00:51:17,783 --> 00:51:18,949
Come on!

909
00:51:26,333 --> 00:51:27,917
Put a blanket on her leg.

910
00:51:28,168 --> 00:51:29,668
She needs a tourniquet.

911
00:51:29,836 --> 00:51:31,796
You're gonna be fine, honey. Go slow.

912
00:51:32,255 --> 00:51:33,547
Go slowly. Blanket.

913
00:51:34,382 --> 00:51:36,801
Wrap this around her leg. Make it tight.

914
00:51:38,553 --> 00:51:40,554
It's so cold out here.

915
00:51:43,433 --> 00:51:45,351
Get those first-aid kits
up to the bow

916
00:51:45,519 --> 00:51:47,269
and get some extra life jackets out there.

917
00:51:47,562 --> 00:51:49,438
We're here! We're here!

918
00:51:52,484 --> 00:51:54,276
It's all right. We're here.

919
00:51:59,866 --> 00:52:01,158
Give me a countdown, Victor.

920
00:52:01,326 --> 00:52:02,701
All right.

921
00:52:04,162 --> 00:52:05,162
Three,

922
00:52:05,831 --> 00:52:07,039
two...

923
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:10,042
We're good. We're good.

924
00:52:11,628 --> 00:52:13,129
Come on, buddy.

925
00:52:15,257 --> 00:52:17,508
Hold it right there, baby. Come on.

926
00:52:17,676 --> 00:52:18,884
Easy. Go easy.

927
00:52:21,638 --> 00:52:23,597
Come on. One at a time.

928
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,393
We're gonna get everybody, guys.

929
00:52:59,759 --> 00:53:02,928
This is Yogi Berra.
We're 30 seconds out.

930
00:53:03,096 --> 00:53:06,724
With a water temperature of 36 degrees
and a wind chill of minus 5,

931
00:53:06,892 --> 00:53:09,768
the surviving passengers of Flight 1549

932
00:53:09,936 --> 00:53:12,271
literally have minutes to live.

933
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:15,107
We're five out.
We have visual on aircraft.

934
00:53:20,322 --> 00:53:21,322
All right, give me your hand.

935
00:53:21,489 --> 00:53:23,824
If anybody's got any problems,
just wait down there.

936
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:26,577
We got some really good people
coming on their way, all right?

937
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:41,842
Stand by.

938
00:53:48,058 --> 00:53:50,184
Fifty yards, go!

939
00:54:04,741 --> 00:54:05,824
You okay?

940
00:54:05,992 --> 00:54:07,910
I got you. You're gonna be okay.
All right?

941
00:54:08,078 --> 00:54:09,078
Got you.

942
00:54:11,790 --> 00:54:13,374
Is anyone still here? Come forward.

943
00:54:13,541 --> 00:54:15,084
Captain! Come back!

944
00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:16,710
Come forward!

945
00:54:21,341 --> 00:54:23,342
We need to get off the plane now.

946
00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:33,352
Captain!

947
00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:37,106
Captain! We have to go!

948
00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:39,275
It's time to get off the plane, right now!

949
00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:53,163
All right, you guys go. Go.
I'll be right behind you.

950
00:55:06,803 --> 00:55:08,679
Sully, we gotta go.

951
00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:23,819
Thank you.

952
00:55:27,991 --> 00:55:30,826
Everybody's okay.
Help is on the way.

953
00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:35,331
Twenty-six passengers
going to Port Imperial.

954
00:55:35,498 --> 00:55:37,499
Nineteen headed to Pier 81.

955
00:55:37,667 --> 00:55:41,128
We got 24 passengers onboard
headed to Port Imperial.

956
00:55:41,296 --> 00:55:43,255
Whoever has miraculously survived

957
00:55:43,423 --> 00:55:45,549
this plummet from the skies
into the icy Hudson

958
00:55:45,717 --> 00:55:48,761
has about 300 of New York's finest
ready to help them.

959
00:55:48,928 --> 00:55:52,181
The only question remaining
is will it be too late?

960
00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:54,641
In Manhattan, Bobby Cuza, New York One.

961
00:55:54,809 --> 00:55:55,934
Come on, sir. Give me your hand.

962
00:55:56,102 --> 00:55:57,102
Grab on.

963
00:55:57,270 --> 00:55:58,896
Give me your hand, sir. It's okay.

964
00:55:59,105 --> 00:56:00,522
We got you.

965
00:56:02,233 --> 00:56:03,901
- My hands.
- Gotta warm them up.

966
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:05,944
Get him a blanket, fast.

967
00:56:13,703 --> 00:56:15,371
I was sure I was gonna die.

968
00:56:15,955 --> 00:56:18,165
Hey, no one dies today.

969
00:56:22,420 --> 00:56:23,712
Give me your hand.

970
00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:32,638
Here you go, Captain. This way.

971
00:56:33,973 --> 00:56:35,140
Give us your hand, sir.

972
00:56:35,308 --> 00:56:36,642
Sully, wrap it around your arms.

973
00:56:38,144 --> 00:56:39,645
- Climb out now.
- Give me your hand.

974
00:56:45,318 --> 00:56:47,111
Can we get
a couple more blankets over here?

975
00:56:47,278 --> 00:56:48,278
Thank you.

976
00:56:48,488 --> 00:56:50,739
- Thank you so much.
You're welcome.

977
00:56:51,241 --> 00:56:52,282
Give him some room.

978
00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:53,700
You're welcome.

979
00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:16,348
Hello?

980
00:57:16,516 --> 00:57:18,308
I wanted to call to say I'm okay.

981
00:57:18,476 --> 00:57:20,352
Oh, good. Are you still on the 5:50 home?

982
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:21,645
There's been an incident.

983
00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:24,857
I'm okay, not a scratch somehow.

984
00:57:25,316 --> 00:57:26,608
Turn on the television.

985
00:57:26,860 --> 00:57:29,027
What do you mean "Turn on the television"?

986
00:57:29,362 --> 00:57:30,696
Lorrie, I can't talk right now.

987
00:57:30,864 --> 00:57:33,031
I will call you from the pier
when things quiet down.

988
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:37,161
I had to land in the Hudson.

989
00:57:38,371 --> 00:57:40,539
Sully, I don't understand.

990
00:57:40,957 --> 00:57:44,543
I love you, and I'm okay.
Tell the girls I am okay.

991
00:57:46,379 --> 00:57:48,005
But I have to go.

992
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:51,717
Girls, turn on the TV.

993
00:57:54,387 --> 00:57:56,513
An extensive rescue effort is underway

994
00:57:56,681 --> 00:57:59,892
after a US Airways Flight
crashes into the Hudson River,

995
00:58:00,059 --> 00:58:02,603
- sending passengers scrambling for safety.
- Oh, my God.

996
00:58:24,250 --> 00:58:25,542
If you have any wet clothing on,
take it off

997
00:58:25,710 --> 00:58:27,920
and wrap up in a blanket
from the Red Cross.

998
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:40,432
You're gonna be okay. Okay, Lucille?

999
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,060
I'm gonna take you right
to the ambulance, all right?

1000
00:58:45,980 --> 00:58:48,273
Maybe he's here.
Maybe he beat us somehow.

1001
00:58:48,858 --> 00:58:51,693
There's lots of boats! Jeff!

1002
00:58:54,239 --> 00:58:55,239
Sully!

1003
00:58:55,490 --> 00:58:56,532
Dan!

1004
00:59:00,203 --> 00:59:03,872
Dan, I need to know who's hurt
and how badly, and I need a count.

1005
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,667
155, that's my number.
That's passengers and crew.

1006
00:59:06,834 --> 00:59:08,335
Okay. How are you?

1007
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:11,046
I'll answer that question
when we've counted 155.

1008
00:59:11,214 --> 00:59:12,297
All right.

1009
00:59:12,465 --> 00:59:14,258
Honey, it's me.

1010
00:59:15,343 --> 00:59:17,511
Sort of. I won't be home tonight.

1011
00:59:19,347 --> 00:59:22,015
Sherri, I cannot believe
I am talking to you.

1012
00:59:28,523 --> 00:59:31,191
Captain. I'm here to escort you
to meet with Mayor Bloomberg

1013
00:59:31,359 --> 00:59:32,901
and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

1014
00:59:33,069 --> 00:59:34,945
If the Mayor wants to say hello,
he'll have to come down here.

1015
00:59:35,113 --> 00:59:36,113
We're still working.

1016
00:59:36,281 --> 00:59:38,407
Sully, I can keep assembling the count.

1017
00:59:39,033 --> 00:59:40,033
Jeff.

1018
00:59:40,201 --> 00:59:42,202
Jeff, I need a count.
We've gotta have a count.

1019
00:59:42,370 --> 00:59:43,662
There's no way to get
a real count out here, Sully.

1020
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:45,247
Sully, Jeff's right.

1021
00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:47,249
Let's get you in some dry clothes
before you freeze to death.

1022
00:59:47,417 --> 00:59:50,002
Captain, what if the Mayor and Chief Kelly
come down here to meet with you?

1023
00:59:50,295 --> 00:59:52,170
Dan, because it was a domestic flight-

1024
00:59:52,338 --> 00:59:53,672
Yeah, we got no manifest.

1025
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,550
We're gonna have to track
the passenger information down one by one.

1026
00:59:56,718 --> 00:59:58,010
- Can you help?
- Yeah.

1027
00:59:58,177 --> 00:59:59,845
I'm gonna call John Carey.
We're gonna get you a count.

1028
01:00:00,263 --> 01:00:02,848
But, Sully, listen. You've done enough.
Let me take it from here.

1029
01:00:14,485 --> 01:00:16,570
- Jeff?
Pop!

1030
01:00:16,738 --> 01:00:17,821
I'm okay.

1031
01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:19,990
I was on the other wing.
They brought us to Jersey.

1032
01:00:20,408 --> 01:00:23,410
I couldn't see you. I couldn't find you.

1033
01:00:23,578 --> 01:00:25,370
I could hear you shouting
my name the whole time.

1034
01:00:26,623 --> 01:00:28,373
I shouted back. I guess the river...

1035
01:00:28,875 --> 01:00:29,875
Are you okay?

1036
01:00:30,043 --> 01:00:31,335
I love you, son.

1037
01:00:33,129 --> 01:00:34,921
I love you, too.

1038
01:00:35,882 --> 01:00:37,549
Can you believe we made it?

1039
01:00:40,011 --> 01:00:41,720
I mean, the plane crashed

1040
01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:43,680
on the river!

1041
01:00:43,973 --> 01:00:45,432
Are you kidding me?

1042
01:00:49,646 --> 01:00:50,646
Ah, so unbelievable.

1043
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:11,500
I've never been so happy
to be in New York in my life.

1044
01:01:23,012 --> 01:01:24,012
Hey, Patty.

1045
01:01:24,305 --> 01:01:25,597
Supe sent me looking for you.

1046
01:01:25,765 --> 01:01:27,224
Everyone's going nuts up top.

1047
01:01:27,392 --> 01:01:29,601
- Aren't you coming?
- I guess you didn't hear.

1048
01:01:29,769 --> 01:01:32,229
I lost Cactus 1549 in the Hudson.

1049
01:01:32,980 --> 01:01:36,149
I guess you haven't heard.
He landed the son of a bitch!

1050
01:01:36,442 --> 01:01:37,693
What?

1051
01:01:37,860 --> 01:01:40,278
Everyone's been pulled off.
It's a miracle!

1052
01:01:40,446 --> 01:01:42,322
I thought I lost them all.

1053
01:01:42,490 --> 01:01:44,616
- They've got to get a TV in here.
- Yeah. Seriously.

1054
01:01:47,078 --> 01:01:49,246
What is my pulse rate?

1055
01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:51,456
It's 110.

1056
01:01:52,166 --> 01:01:54,042
My normal resting is 55.

1057
01:01:54,210 --> 01:01:55,419
110...

1058
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:57,546
That's not good.

1059
01:01:57,714 --> 01:02:00,257
You are right. 110 is not good.

1060
01:02:00,425 --> 01:02:03,719
After what you just went through,
110 is extraordinary.

1061
01:02:03,886 --> 01:02:05,679
How is Doreen?

1062
01:02:05,847 --> 01:02:07,264
Fairly severe laceration.

1063
01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:09,057
But we'll keep her a day or two
to stem the infection.

1064
01:02:09,225 --> 01:02:10,350
But she'll be okay?

1065
01:02:10,518 --> 01:02:12,894
She'll have a scar
and a hell of a story to tell.

1066
01:02:13,062 --> 01:02:14,062
Although no one'll believe her.

1067
01:02:14,230 --> 01:02:16,523
Hell, I'm standing here with you right now
and I don't believe it.

1068
01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:18,358
You landed a plane on the Hudson.
Not a scratch on you.

1069
01:02:18,526 --> 01:02:19,568
Arnie.

1070
01:02:20,945 --> 01:02:23,739
The union is pulling out
all the big guns today?

1071
01:02:25,241 --> 01:02:26,575
Talked to Dan Britt, Sully.

1072
01:02:27,660 --> 01:02:28,952
Got a count.

1073
01:02:29,954 --> 01:02:31,246
155.

1074
01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:35,167
155.

1075
01:02:35,334 --> 01:02:36,501
It's official.

1076
01:02:36,753 --> 01:02:38,754
-155.
-155.

1077
01:02:42,925 --> 01:02:44,301
155.

1078
01:02:44,927 --> 01:02:46,553
Thank you, Arnie.

1079
01:03:18,419 --> 01:03:20,295
- Hey, Carl.
Jeff.

1080
01:03:21,422 --> 01:03:22,798
- Sully.
- Carl.

1081
01:03:22,965 --> 01:03:24,716
Hell of a thing you pulled off
out there today.

1082
01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:25,926
Well, we're here.

1083
01:03:26,093 --> 01:03:27,969
It's about all I know at the moment.

1084
01:03:28,429 --> 01:03:30,055
Oh, this is Ms. May, with the hotel.

1085
01:03:30,223 --> 01:03:31,640
Wanted to have a quick word with you.

1086
01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:33,058
I won't take your time, gentlemen.

1087
01:03:33,226 --> 01:03:34,309
This is only to say that my staff and I

1088
01:03:34,477 --> 01:03:35,727
are committed to protecting your privacy.

1089
01:03:35,895 --> 01:03:38,396
So, if there's anything I can do at all...

1090
01:03:38,564 --> 01:03:41,733
If it's possible, I'd love to have
my uniform dry-cleaned overnight.

1091
01:03:41,901 --> 01:03:43,318
It's the only clothing that I have.

1092
01:03:43,486 --> 01:03:44,486
Dry-cleaning?

1093
01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:46,238
If it's too much... If it's too late...

1094
01:03:46,405 --> 01:03:47,572
Are you kidding?

1095
01:03:47,740 --> 01:03:50,617
Captain Sullenberger,
I'd give you this whole hotel if I could.

1096
01:03:53,329 --> 01:03:54,412
Oh, okay.

1097
01:03:55,456 --> 01:03:57,582
Well, thank you, Evelyn.
Thank you very much.

1098
01:03:57,750 --> 01:03:59,584
- Anything for Sully.
- Okay.

1099
01:03:59,752 --> 01:04:01,169
Have a blessed day.

1100
01:04:03,589 --> 01:04:04,965
What just happened?

1101
01:04:05,132 --> 01:04:07,342
You just got hugged by a total stranger.

1102
01:04:08,761 --> 01:04:10,262
Ah, come on, Sully.

1103
01:04:10,429 --> 01:04:12,430
When's the last time you heard of someone

1104
01:04:12,598 --> 01:04:14,599
landing a jet plane on the water

1105
01:04:15,101 --> 01:04:16,434
and everybody lived?

1106
01:04:18,938 --> 01:04:19,938
Exactly.

1107
01:04:20,439 --> 01:04:24,109
I got shaving cream,
razor blades, toothpaste.

1108
01:04:25,486 --> 01:04:27,279
And new clothes.

1109
01:04:28,781 --> 01:04:30,824
What, did you think we were ninjas?

1110
01:04:30,992 --> 01:04:32,659
Kmart was the only store open.

1111
01:04:32,827 --> 01:04:33,994
It's Queens. It's 10:00 in the evening.

1112
01:04:34,161 --> 01:04:36,621
- You find a Brooks Brothers.
- Yeah.

1113
01:04:38,124 --> 01:04:39,124
Sully.

1114
01:04:39,792 --> 01:04:41,543
What are you even still doing in uniform?

1115
01:04:41,794 --> 01:04:43,545
Ah. You know, I don't know.

1116
01:04:43,713 --> 01:04:47,299
Look, guys. It's been a long day.
Why don't you get some rest?

1117
01:04:47,466 --> 01:04:51,303
Mike Cleary will be over in the a. m.
and make sure you're both doing okay.

1118
01:04:52,138 --> 01:04:54,264
- Thank you, Carl.
- Yeah, thank you, Captain.

1119
01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:57,475
It's been a while since
New York had news this good.

1120
01:04:59,270 --> 01:05:00,520
Especially with an airplane in it.

1121
01:05:10,364 --> 01:05:11,823
I'll see you later, Sully.

1122
01:05:34,263 --> 01:05:37,599
The word city officials
keep repeating is "timing. "

1123
01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,894
The perfect timing of the NYPD scuba units

1124
01:05:41,062 --> 01:05:43,063
and of the ferry boat captains,

1125
01:05:43,230 --> 01:05:47,400
and of course, the inexplicably
precise timing of the pilot.

1126
01:05:47,568 --> 01:05:50,946
Captain "Sully" Sullenberger,
who, with almost no time,

1127
01:05:51,113 --> 01:05:53,365
became a man for all time.

1128
01:05:53,616 --> 01:05:54,616
This is Kristine Johnson...

1129
01:05:54,825 --> 01:05:55,825
The timing.

1130
01:05:56,035 --> 01:05:57,577
...reporting live from the Hudson River.

1131
01:05:57,787 --> 01:05:58,787
New York One Minute.

1132
01:05:58,996 --> 01:06:00,914
The coast guard released this new video
of Flight 1549

1133
01:06:01,165 --> 01:06:03,124
making its emergency landing
on the Hudson.

1134
01:06:03,292 --> 01:06:06,211
Meanwhile, the search is launched
for the engine of the aircraft.

1135
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:10,548
Hey, Sully. Let me...

1136
01:06:17,723 --> 01:06:19,099
Come on. Answer.

1137
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:20,934
Answer!

1138
01:06:21,769 --> 01:06:25,438
Larry, the CVR is in two days.
How fast can you arrange a favor?

1139
01:06:25,690 --> 01:06:26,731
Sully?

1140
01:06:26,941 --> 01:06:30,568
I know that Airbus has simulations
scheduled for the S22 sim at the factory.

1141
01:06:30,736 --> 01:06:34,322
But that's next week in Toulouse.
Can you get them to reschedule?

1142
01:06:34,490 --> 01:06:35,740
It's 1:30 in the morning.

1143
01:06:35,908 --> 01:06:37,033
I need you to make it happen

1144
01:06:37,243 --> 01:06:38,618
before we listen to the CVR.

1145
01:06:38,786 --> 01:06:40,745
Before our testimony is complete.

1146
01:06:40,913 --> 01:06:42,080
Why?

1147
01:06:42,748 --> 01:06:45,625
I have a right to see the simulations
and I have a feeling that

1148
01:06:45,793 --> 01:06:49,170
with human pilots and not a computer,
the results are going to be different.

1149
01:06:49,338 --> 01:06:51,756
What if they show the exact same result?

1150
01:06:53,092 --> 01:06:55,260
If they do,
then I'll hand you my wings myself.

1151
01:06:55,428 --> 01:06:56,803
It's all about the timing, Larry.

1152
01:06:56,971 --> 01:06:58,930
You can accomplish anything
if you're never in a hurry.

1153
01:06:59,098 --> 01:07:00,849
I sure as hell agree with that.

1154
01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:03,309
The CVR is on Wednesday. That's 36 hours.

1155
01:07:03,477 --> 01:07:04,811
Can you make it happen?

1156
01:07:04,979 --> 01:07:07,605
I'll try.
It's a lot of phone calls to make.

1157
01:07:07,773 --> 01:07:09,274
It's already 7:30
in the morning in France,

1158
01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:10,567
so you better get started.

1159
01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:12,610
Thank you, Larry. Thank you.

1160
01:07:31,380 --> 01:07:32,380
Hey, Lorrie.

1161
01:07:32,590 --> 01:07:35,675
Hi. I'm sorry to bother you
before the hearing.

1162
01:07:35,843 --> 01:07:38,261
Sweetheart, what happened?

1163
01:07:39,555 --> 01:07:45,268
I realized just now,
for the first time, that there were...

1164
01:07:46,187 --> 01:07:50,190
There were 155 people
on that plane and you were one of them.

1165
01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:53,443
We almost lost you.

1166
01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:57,072
Yeah, but you didn't. I'm right here.

1167
01:07:58,699 --> 01:08:00,492
How are you holding up?

1168
01:08:00,659 --> 01:08:02,202
Oh, I'm holding up.

1169
01:08:02,369 --> 01:08:04,245
Please tell me this is almost over.

1170
01:08:04,747 --> 01:08:06,331
It's almost over.

1171
01:08:06,499 --> 01:08:07,499
Okay.

1172
01:08:07,666 --> 01:08:08,792
I love you.

1173
01:08:08,959 --> 01:08:10,376
I love you, too.

1174
01:08:10,544 --> 01:08:12,712
I'll call you when they're done with me.

1175
01:08:41,367 --> 01:08:43,326
- Sully.
- Let's go, Larry.

1176
01:08:54,004 --> 01:08:56,339
Good morning, Sully.
- Jeff.

1177
01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:58,341
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,
and welcome.

1178
01:08:58,551 --> 01:08:59,717
My name is Charles Porter.

1179
01:08:59,927 --> 01:09:02,554
I've been assigned by the
National Transportation Safety Board

1180
01:09:02,763 --> 01:09:05,098
to conduct this public hearing here today.

1181
01:09:05,391 --> 01:09:07,142
We have a lot of material to cover.

1182
01:09:07,726 --> 01:09:10,395
But before we listen to
the cockpit voice recording...

1183
01:09:10,563 --> 01:09:12,438
And we will be listening to it
for the first time

1184
01:09:12,606 --> 01:09:14,065
along with you, gentlemen.

1185
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:17,610
Per the request of
Captain Sullenberger and the union,

1186
01:09:17,778 --> 01:09:19,988
Airbus has agreed to link us via satellite

1187
01:09:20,156 --> 01:09:22,240
to today's piloted simulations.

1188
01:09:22,408 --> 01:09:24,075
Upload link, please.

1189
01:09:24,910 --> 01:09:26,578
They're just simulations, Sully.

1190
01:09:26,745 --> 01:09:28,997
Won't change my mind
about what happened up there.

1191
01:09:29,665 --> 01:09:31,416
Might change theirs.

1192
01:09:41,010 --> 01:09:42,051
Birds.

1193
01:09:43,971 --> 01:09:45,597
Number one's rolling back. And number two.

1194
01:09:45,764 --> 01:09:46,931
Auto pilot's off.

1195
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:49,475
- Pilot off.
- Flight Director's off.

1196
01:09:49,643 --> 01:09:50,810
Flight Director is off.

1197
01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:53,771
All right. LaGuardia, Cactus 1549,
dual engine failure.

1198
01:09:53,939 --> 01:09:55,273
We have to return to the field.

1199
01:09:55,441 --> 01:09:58,109
Okay. I'm gonna left turn
back to LaGuardia 1-3.

1200
01:09:58,277 --> 01:10:00,111
I'll activate the approach for you.

1201
01:10:00,821 --> 01:10:02,363
It's activated.

1202
01:10:02,531 --> 01:10:03,948
Runway 1-3.

1203
01:10:06,118 --> 01:10:07,994
Glide slopes coming in nicely.

1204
01:10:08,746 --> 01:10:10,705
- Flaps two.
- Flaps two.

1205
01:10:12,041 --> 01:10:13,708
Sink Rate 900.

1206
01:10:16,837 --> 01:10:18,546
Too low, flaps.

1207
01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:20,465
Flight slow.

1208
01:10:20,633 --> 01:10:22,133
Too low, flaps.

1209
01:10:22,301 --> 01:10:25,511
Forty, 30, 20...

1210
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:36,189
Successful landing
at LaGuardia, runway 1-3.

1211
01:10:37,650 --> 01:10:38,650
For the record,

1212
01:10:38,859 --> 01:10:41,861
the pilots and the computer
sims bear the same result.

1213
01:10:43,155 --> 01:10:45,365
Let's try for Teterboro now, please.

1214
01:10:46,492 --> 01:10:48,159
Upload the second run.

1215
01:10:52,539 --> 01:10:53,831
Birds.

1216
01:10:58,587 --> 01:10:59,963
Give me a heading 3-1-0.

1217
01:11:00,214 --> 01:11:01,756
Heading 3-1-0.

1218
01:11:03,759 --> 01:11:05,301
I'm gonna give you direct to Teterboro.

1219
01:11:05,469 --> 01:11:06,719
Direct Teterboro.

1220
01:11:14,186 --> 01:11:15,186
One thousand.

1221
01:11:15,896 --> 01:11:17,105
Flaps two.

1222
01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:18,481
Flaps two.

1223
01:11:23,821 --> 01:11:25,571
Too low, terrain.

1224
01:11:25,823 --> 01:11:27,323
Too low, terrain.

1225
01:11:27,616 --> 01:11:28,908
Too low, terrain.

1226
01:11:30,244 --> 01:11:34,289
Fifty, 40, 30, 20...

1227
01:11:38,002 --> 01:11:40,461
Successful landing
at Teterboro, runway 1-9.

1228
01:11:44,591 --> 01:11:48,386
Multiple airports, runways,
two successful landings.

1229
01:11:49,930 --> 01:11:53,016
We are simply mimicking
what the computer already told us.

1230
01:11:53,767 --> 01:11:57,145
A lot of toes were stepped on
in order to set this up for today.

1231
01:12:00,316 --> 01:12:02,942
And frankly, I really don't know
what you gentlemen plan to gain by it.

1232
01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:05,611
Can we get serious now?

1233
01:12:07,406 --> 01:12:08,448
Captain?

1234
01:12:08,615 --> 01:12:10,158
We've all heard about
the computer simulations

1235
01:12:10,367 --> 01:12:12,910
and now we are watching actual sims.

1236
01:12:13,078 --> 01:12:15,246
But I can't quite believe

1237
01:12:16,123 --> 01:12:20,376
you still have not taken
into account the human factor.

1238
01:12:20,711 --> 01:12:22,045
Human piloted simulations

1239
01:12:22,212 --> 01:12:24,047
showed that you could
make it back to the airport.

1240
01:12:24,506 --> 01:12:25,798
No, they don't.

1241
01:12:26,467 --> 01:12:29,135
These pilots were not behaving
like human beings,

1242
01:12:29,303 --> 01:12:31,804
like people who are experiencing this
for the first time.

1243
01:12:31,972 --> 01:12:33,598
Well, they may not be reacting
like you did.

1244
01:12:33,766 --> 01:12:35,350
Immediately after the bird strike

1245
01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:37,060
they are turning back for the airport.

1246
01:12:37,227 --> 01:12:39,187
Just as in the computer sims, correct?

1247
01:12:39,355 --> 01:12:40,355
That is correct.

1248
01:12:40,522 --> 01:12:43,816
They obviously knew the turn
and exactly what heading to fly.

1249
01:12:43,984 --> 01:12:45,318
They did not run a check.

1250
01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:46,819
They did not switch on the APU.

1251
01:12:46,987 --> 01:12:49,280
They had all the same
parameters that you faced.

1252
01:12:49,448 --> 01:12:51,074
No one warned us.

1253
01:12:52,201 --> 01:12:55,036
No one said,
"You are going to lose both engines

1254
01:12:55,204 --> 01:12:57,830
"at a lower altitude
than any jet in history.

1255
01:12:58,499 --> 01:12:59,624
"But be cool.

1256
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:02,168
"Just make a left turn for LaGuardia

1257
01:13:02,336 --> 01:13:04,587
"like you're going back
to pick up the milk. "

1258
01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:08,132
This was dual engine loss at 2,800 feet

1259
01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:10,468
followed by an immediate water landing

1260
01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:13,221
with 155 souls onboard.

1261
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:17,183
No one has ever trained
for an incident like that.

1262
01:13:17,351 --> 01:13:18,351
No one.

1263
01:13:19,395 --> 01:13:22,688
The Teterboro landing,
with its unrealistic bank angle

1264
01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:25,233
we were not the Thunderbirds up there.

1265
01:13:25,776 --> 01:13:28,069
I'd like to know how many times
the pilot practiced that maneuver

1266
01:13:28,237 --> 01:13:30,321
before he actually pulled it off.

1267
01:13:31,615 --> 01:13:33,199
I'm not questioning the pilots.

1268
01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:34,784
They're good pilots.

1269
01:13:35,869 --> 01:13:38,871
But they've clearly been instructed
to head for the airport

1270
01:13:39,039 --> 01:13:40,832
immediately after the bird strike.

1271
01:13:41,375 --> 01:13:44,168
You've allowed no time for analysis
or decision-making.

1272
01:13:44,586 --> 01:13:48,506
In these simulations, you've taken
all of the humanity out of the cockpit.

1273
01:13:49,466 --> 01:13:53,553
How much time did the pilots
spend planning for this event?

1274
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,263
For these simulations?

1275
01:13:58,767 --> 01:14:01,102
You are looking for human error.

1276
01:14:02,521 --> 01:14:04,230
Then make it human.

1277
01:14:09,194 --> 01:14:11,279
This wasn't a video game.

1278
01:14:11,447 --> 01:14:13,197
It was life and death.

1279
01:14:13,740 --> 01:14:15,908
Sully's right. That's worth a few seconds.

1280
01:14:16,076 --> 01:14:18,536
Please ask how many
practice runs they had.

1281
01:14:19,455 --> 01:14:20,913
Seventeen.

1282
01:14:27,087 --> 01:14:28,796
Seventeen?

1283
01:14:30,048 --> 01:14:35,553
The pilot who landed at Teterboro
had 17 practice attempts

1284
01:14:35,721 --> 01:14:38,389
before the simulation we just witnessed.

1285
01:14:43,061 --> 01:14:45,813
Your reaction decision time
will be set at 35 seconds.

1286
01:14:47,483 --> 01:14:49,734
Thirty-five seconds.
That's not enough time.

1287
01:14:50,277 --> 01:14:52,945
We only had 208 seconds total,

1288
01:14:53,906 --> 01:14:55,239
so I'll take it.

1289
01:14:55,657 --> 01:14:56,908
Upload the link.

1290
01:14:57,075 --> 01:14:58,451
Return to LaGuardia.

1291
01:14:58,619 --> 01:15:01,162
Now with an added
35-second delay in response time.

1292
01:15:06,293 --> 01:15:08,169
Birds.
Okay, I saw them.

1293
01:15:08,420 --> 01:15:10,296
- Give me 35 seconds.
Thirty-five seconds.

1294
01:15:17,930 --> 01:15:19,013
Time's up.

1295
01:15:19,181 --> 01:15:20,348
Here we go.

1296
01:15:21,767 --> 01:15:23,017
Flight path vector.

1297
01:15:28,607 --> 01:15:29,690
Going for 1-3.

1298
01:15:29,858 --> 01:15:30,858
Okay.

1299
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:32,527
Activate confirm.

1300
01:15:32,694 --> 01:15:34,820
All right. You are confirmed.

1301
01:15:36,990 --> 01:15:38,783
We're heading right for the airport.

1302
01:15:47,459 --> 01:15:48,709
Caution, obstacle.

1303
01:15:49,628 --> 01:15:51,128
Caution, obstacle.

1304
01:15:51,463 --> 01:15:53,839
We're about
seven miles from the runway.

1305
01:15:55,801 --> 01:15:57,510
Caution, obstacle.

1306
01:15:57,970 --> 01:15:59,554
Terrain, terrain.

1307
01:16:00,639 --> 01:16:02,056
Pull up.

1308
01:16:03,267 --> 01:16:04,267
Pull up.

1309
01:16:05,602 --> 01:16:06,602
Pull up.

1310
01:16:08,272 --> 01:16:09,272
Pull up.

1311
01:16:09,856 --> 01:16:11,691
Too low, terrain.

1312
01:16:12,150 --> 01:16:13,651
We got a little extra speed.

1313
01:16:13,819 --> 01:16:14,819
You want some flaps?

1314
01:16:15,571 --> 01:16:16,988
Too low, terrain.

1315
01:16:17,155 --> 01:16:18,322
No, leave the flaps up.

1316
01:16:20,033 --> 01:16:21,742
Too low, terrain.

1317
01:16:22,035 --> 01:16:23,327
Too low, terrain.

1318
01:16:23,829 --> 01:16:25,037
Too low, terrain.

1319
01:16:26,206 --> 01:16:30,209
Fifty, 40, 30, 20...

1320
01:16:43,765 --> 01:16:45,433
Let's try Teterboro.

1321
01:16:47,519 --> 01:16:48,769
Upload the link, please.

1322
01:16:52,691 --> 01:16:53,733
Birds.

1323
01:16:53,900 --> 01:16:55,568
Auto pilot off.
Flight Director off.

1324
01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:56,736
Hack the time.

1325
01:16:56,987 --> 01:16:58,613
- Thirty-five seconds.
Thirty-five seconds.

1326
01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:02,033
Engine one and two fail.

1327
01:17:06,371 --> 01:17:07,371
Turn.

1328
01:17:07,748 --> 01:17:08,748
Okay.

1329
01:17:10,876 --> 01:17:12,710
Let's see if we can make it.

1330
01:17:17,090 --> 01:17:18,299
Heading sub 2-9-8.

1331
01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:19,925
You seeing Teterboro out there?

1332
01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:21,260
I do.

1333
01:17:25,557 --> 01:17:27,058
Way too low.

1334
01:17:29,936 --> 01:17:31,729
Obstacle, obstacle.

1335
01:17:32,564 --> 01:17:33,898
Pull up.

1336
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:35,941
Pull up.

1337
01:17:36,902 --> 01:17:37,902
Pull up.

1338
01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:40,071
Pull up.

1339
01:17:41,448 --> 01:17:42,448
Pull up.

1340
01:17:43,825 --> 01:17:45,951
Not gonna work, not gonna work.

1341
01:17:46,119 --> 01:17:47,119
Pull up.

1342
01:17:48,413 --> 01:17:49,413
Pull up.

1343
01:17:49,915 --> 01:17:51,749
Pull up.

1344
01:18:06,515 --> 01:18:09,266
Does anyone need to see more simulations?

1345
01:18:13,105 --> 01:18:15,856
Now that we've seen
what could have happened,

1346
01:18:16,024 --> 01:18:18,442
can we, listen to what actually did?

1347
01:18:18,860 --> 01:18:21,821
We will look at all
the results at a later date.

1348
01:18:23,115 --> 01:18:24,323
Elizabeth.

1349
01:18:24,783 --> 01:18:25,991
For the record,

1350
01:18:26,159 --> 01:18:29,662
this is the CVR of US Airways Flight 1549,

1351
01:18:29,830 --> 01:18:32,123
January 15th, 2009.

1352
01:18:32,290 --> 01:18:34,709
Gentlemen, headsets.

1353
01:19:01,987 --> 01:19:02,987
Birds!

1354
01:19:09,870 --> 01:19:11,537
Shit.

1355
01:19:11,872 --> 01:19:13,122
Oh, yeah.

1356
01:19:14,666 --> 01:19:16,333
We got one rolling back.

1357
01:19:19,504 --> 01:19:21,797
We have both of them rolling back.

1358
01:19:26,219 --> 01:19:27,219
Ignition start.

1359
01:19:33,602 --> 01:19:34,894
I'm starting the APU.

1360
01:19:41,568 --> 01:19:43,152
- My aircraft.
- Your aircraft.

1361
01:19:43,653 --> 01:19:44,862
Get out the QRH.

1362
01:19:45,030 --> 01:19:46,530
Priority left.

1363
01:19:46,698 --> 01:19:48,032
Loss of thrust on both engines.

1364
01:19:48,325 --> 01:19:50,409
Mayday, mayday, mayday.
This is Cactus 1549.

1365
01:19:50,577 --> 01:19:52,536
Hit birds.
We've lost thrust on both engines.

1366
01:19:52,704 --> 01:19:54,371
We are turning back towards LaGuardia.

1367
01:19:54,873 --> 01:19:56,040
Okay, you need to return to LaGuardia?

1368
01:19:56,208 --> 01:19:57,875
- Turn left heading 2-2-0.
-2-2-0.

1369
01:19:58,043 --> 01:20:00,461
- Which engine did you lose?
- Both. Both engines.

1370
01:20:10,096 --> 01:20:12,014
"If fuel remaining, engine mode,
select your ignition. "

1371
01:20:12,224 --> 01:20:13,557
- Ignition.
- Ignition.

1372
01:20:13,725 --> 01:20:16,101
- Thrust levers, confirm idle.
- Idle.

1373
01:20:16,269 --> 01:20:18,687
Airspeed. Optimum relight, 300 knots.

1374
01:20:19,272 --> 01:20:21,690
- We don't have that.
- No, we don't.

1375
01:20:23,276 --> 01:20:24,985
Cactus 1549,
if we can get it for you,

1376
01:20:25,153 --> 01:20:26,612
do you wanna try to land runway 1-3?

1377
01:20:28,698 --> 01:20:31,033
We are unable.
We may end up in the Hudson.

1378
01:20:32,410 --> 01:20:35,204
Emergency electrical power,
emergency generator not online.

1379
01:20:35,372 --> 01:20:36,914
Online.

1380
01:20:37,082 --> 01:20:39,875
ATC notified. Squawk 7700.

1381
01:20:40,043 --> 01:20:41,710
Distress message transmit. We did that.

1382
01:20:41,878 --> 01:20:44,755
Cactus 1549,
it's gonna be left traffic, runway 3-1.

1383
01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:46,257
Unable.

1384
01:20:46,424 --> 01:20:47,883
Okay. What do you need to land?

1385
01:20:48,051 --> 01:20:49,134
Wind shear.

1386
01:20:49,427 --> 01:20:51,262
FAC 1 off, then on.

1387
01:21:04,609 --> 01:21:06,777
Been 10 seconds, Captain. Come on.

1388
01:21:06,945 --> 01:21:08,153
Talk to me.

1389
01:21:08,321 --> 01:21:09,530
Cactus 1549,

1390
01:21:09,739 --> 01:21:12,575
runway 4's available if you wanna make
left traffic to runway 4.

1391
01:21:12,742 --> 01:21:14,159
I don't think we can make any runway.

1392
01:21:14,327 --> 01:21:16,287
What about over to our right?

1393
01:21:16,454 --> 01:21:17,830
Anything in New Jersey? Maybe Teterboro?

1394
01:21:17,998 --> 01:21:19,999
Okay, yeah.
Off your right side is Teterboro airport.

1395
01:21:20,667 --> 01:21:23,294
LaGuardia Departure,
got an emergency inbound.

1396
01:21:23,461 --> 01:21:25,004
This is Teterboro tower. Go ahead.

1397
01:21:25,171 --> 01:21:27,131
Cactus 1549 over the GW Bridge.

1398
01:21:27,299 --> 01:21:28,591
Needs to go to the airport right now.

1399
01:21:28,758 --> 01:21:30,009
Check. Does he need assistance?

1400
01:21:30,176 --> 01:21:32,303
Yes. Bird strike.
Can I get him in for runway 1?

1401
01:21:39,477 --> 01:21:40,561
Cactus 1549, you wanna

1402
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:41,812
try and go to Teterboro?

1403
01:21:42,981 --> 01:21:44,106
Obstacle. Obstacle.

1404
01:21:48,153 --> 01:21:49,695
Obstacle. Obstacle.

1405
01:21:51,156 --> 01:21:52,156
Pull up.

1406
01:21:52,324 --> 01:21:53,657
Clear of conflict.

1407
01:21:53,825 --> 01:21:56,493
"No relight after 30 seconds,
engine master one and two, confirm off. "

1408
01:21:56,661 --> 01:21:57,661
Off.

1409
01:21:58,496 --> 01:21:59,997
"Wait 30 seconds. "

1410
01:22:00,165 --> 01:22:01,624
Too low, terrain.

1411
01:22:02,292 --> 01:22:03,375
Too low, terrain.

1412
01:22:04,294 --> 01:22:05,294
Too low, terrain.

1413
01:22:05,962 --> 01:22:07,046
Too low, terrain.

1414
01:22:15,180 --> 01:22:16,680
This is the captain.

1415
01:22:17,307 --> 01:22:18,682
Brace for impact.

1416
01:22:22,020 --> 01:22:23,187
Five hundred.

1417
01:22:30,695 --> 01:22:32,363
Cactus 1549, turn right 2-8-0.

1418
01:22:32,530 --> 01:22:34,073
You can land runway one Teterboro.

1419
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:35,532
We can't make it.

1420
01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:37,368
Okay. Which runway
would you like at Teterboro?

1421
01:22:37,535 --> 01:22:38,827
Go ahead. Try number one.

1422
01:22:38,995 --> 01:22:40,496
Number one.

1423
01:22:40,705 --> 01:22:42,164
No relight.

1424
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:44,500
We're gonna end up in the Hudson.

1425
01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:45,668
Too low, terrain.

1426
01:22:45,835 --> 01:22:47,252
I'm sorry. Say again, Cactus?

1427
01:22:48,380 --> 01:22:49,380
Too low, terrain.

1428
01:23:00,892 --> 01:23:03,060
All right, let's put the flaps out.
Put the flaps out.

1429
01:23:03,228 --> 01:23:04,228
Flaps out.

1430
01:23:04,396 --> 01:23:06,021
Cactus 1549, radar contact lost.

1431
01:23:06,189 --> 01:23:08,899
You also got Newark off your two o'clock
in about seven miles.

1432
01:23:09,067 --> 01:23:10,192
Got flaps out.

1433
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:12,027
Two hundred fifty feet in the air.

1434
01:23:17,659 --> 01:23:19,868
170 knots. Got no power on either one.
Try the other one.

1435
01:23:20,036 --> 01:23:21,036
Try the other one.

1436
01:23:21,246 --> 01:23:22,871
1549? Still up?

1437
01:23:23,081 --> 01:23:24,415
One hundred and fifty knots.

1438
01:23:24,874 --> 01:23:27,251
- Got flaps two. You want more?
- No. Let's stay at two.

1439
01:23:27,419 --> 01:23:28,752
You got runway 2-9 available at Newark.

1440
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:30,129
It'll be two o'clock in seven miles.

1441
01:23:30,296 --> 01:23:32,089
You got any ideas?

1442
01:23:32,590 --> 01:23:33,590
Actually not.

1443
01:23:33,758 --> 01:23:35,217
Terrain, terrain.

1444
01:23:35,385 --> 01:23:36,760
Pull up. Pull up.

1445
01:23:37,387 --> 01:23:38,387
Pull up.

1446
01:23:39,556 --> 01:23:40,556
Pull up.

1447
01:23:41,474 --> 01:23:42,474
Pull up.

1448
01:23:43,435 --> 01:23:44,435
Pull up.

1449
01:23:44,936 --> 01:23:45,936
Pull up.

1450
01:23:50,066 --> 01:23:51,316
We're gonna brace.

1451
01:23:51,651 --> 01:23:52,651
Pull up.

1452
01:23:52,902 --> 01:23:53,902
Thirty...

1453
01:23:58,116 --> 01:23:59,116
Twenty...

1454
01:23:59,492 --> 01:24:00,492
Pull up.

1455
01:24:38,656 --> 01:24:41,658
I need to take a quick break.

1456
01:24:55,882 --> 01:24:57,508
What did you think?

1457
01:24:58,635 --> 01:25:01,345
Hearing the CVR just now?

1458
01:25:03,848 --> 01:25:05,682
Let me tell you what I think.

1459
01:25:07,727 --> 01:25:09,311
I'm just so damn proud.

1460
01:25:11,022 --> 01:25:13,857
And you, you were right there,
through all that distraction.

1461
01:25:14,025 --> 01:25:15,859
With so much at stake.

1462
01:25:18,404 --> 01:25:20,864
We did this together. We were a team.

1463
01:25:22,867 --> 01:25:24,076
Thanks, Sully.

1464
01:25:24,494 --> 01:25:26,578
- We did our job.
- We did our job.

1465
01:25:45,682 --> 01:25:47,683
Hey, you did good.

1466
01:25:48,226 --> 01:25:49,226
All right, folks.

1467
01:25:49,394 --> 01:25:50,769
I'd like to call this hearing
back to order.

1468
01:25:50,937 --> 01:25:52,604
If we could settle, please.

1469
01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:56,066
Take your seats.

1470
01:26:02,782 --> 01:26:04,908
That is honestly the first time

1471
01:26:05,076 --> 01:26:06,910
that I have listened to a crash recording

1472
01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:09,580
while actually sitting

1473
01:26:09,747 --> 01:26:11,415
with the captain and the first officer.

1474
01:26:14,169 --> 01:26:15,669
It's extraordinary.

1475
01:26:17,213 --> 01:26:19,715
That was no simulation.

1476
01:26:20,758 --> 01:26:22,134
No, it wasn't.

1477
01:26:23,761 --> 01:26:25,012
Gentlemen,

1478
01:26:25,555 --> 01:26:29,266
I want to inform you that
the left engine has been recovered.

1479
01:26:30,226 --> 01:26:32,603
We just received a comprehensive report.

1480
01:26:35,273 --> 01:26:36,940
There was extensive damage

1481
01:26:37,108 --> 01:26:39,610
to both the guide vanes
and fan blades of the engine.

1482
01:26:39,777 --> 01:26:42,571
Five compressor blades were fractured

1483
01:26:42,864 --> 01:26:46,783
and eight variable guide vanes missing.

1484
01:26:47,410 --> 01:26:49,203
So, no thrust?

1485
01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:50,454
As you testified,

1486
01:26:51,122 --> 01:26:53,290
it was completely destroyed.

1487
01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,626
The ACARS data was wrong.

1488
01:27:00,465 --> 01:27:03,258
I'd like to add something
on a personal note.

1489
01:27:03,885 --> 01:27:05,761
I can say with absolute confidence

1490
01:27:05,929 --> 01:27:08,931
that after speaking
with the rest of the flight crew,

1491
01:27:09,682 --> 01:27:12,267
with bird experts, aviation engineers,

1492
01:27:12,644 --> 01:27:15,270
after running through every scenario,

1493
01:27:15,438 --> 01:27:17,689
after interviewing each player,

1494
01:27:18,149 --> 01:27:20,609
there is still an "X" in this result

1495
01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:24,154
and it's you, Captain Sullenberger.

1496
01:27:24,322 --> 01:27:29,326
Remove you from the equation,
and the math just fails.

1497
01:27:30,995 --> 01:27:32,746
I disagree.

1498
01:27:34,332 --> 01:27:37,167
It wasn't just me. It was all of us.

1499
01:27:37,335 --> 01:27:40,128
It was Jeff and Donna
and Sheila and Doreen

1500
01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:44,508
and all of the passengers,
the rescue workers,

1501
01:27:44,676 --> 01:27:46,969
air traffic control,

1502
01:27:47,136 --> 01:27:49,513
ferry boat crews and the scuba cops.

1503
01:27:51,641 --> 01:27:53,475
We all did it.

1504
01:27:54,435 --> 01:27:56,520
We survived.

1505
01:27:59,941 --> 01:28:04,027
First Officer Skiles, is there
anything you'd like to add?

1506
01:28:05,530 --> 01:28:07,656
Anything you would have done differently

1507
01:28:08,825 --> 01:28:10,492
if you had to do it again?

1508
01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:12,703
Yes.

1509
01:28:13,329 --> 01:28:14,955
I would have done it in July.

1510
01:29:50,635 --> 01:29:52,302
7F. 11F.

1511
01:29:52,470 --> 01:29:53,470
9D.

1512
01:29:53,679 --> 01:29:54,679
1 C.

1513
01:29:54,847 --> 01:29:56,807
-25B.
-26B.

1514
01:29:57,100 --> 01:29:59,142
-1 OB.
-9A.

1515
01:29:59,310 --> 01:30:02,229
-13C.
-21A and B.

1516
01:30:02,814 --> 01:30:04,481
155 is a number,

1517
01:30:05,066 --> 01:30:08,568
but when you can put faces to it

1518
01:30:08,736 --> 01:30:13,073
and not just 155 faces,
but the other faces,

1519
01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:17,160
the wives, the daughters, the sons,
the fathers, the mothers, the brothers,

1520
01:30:17,662 --> 01:30:19,621
it gets to be a pretty big
number pretty quickly.

1521
01:30:19,956 --> 01:30:21,748
This is your captain speaking.

1522
01:30:26,170 --> 01:30:31,341
I think today was as much and as good
for me and my crew as it was for you.

1523
01:30:31,676 --> 01:30:35,971
And because of the events
of January 15, 2009,

1524
01:30:36,139 --> 01:30:41,601
I'm convinced that we will be joined
in our hearts and in our minds forever.

1525
01:31:37,158 --> 01:31:39,326
I am the keeper of the mail.

1526
01:31:40,077 --> 01:31:43,538
So I read when people
from across the country write to us.

1527
01:31:43,706 --> 01:31:47,334
And I open the letters
that come to our house from your families.

1528
01:31:47,502 --> 01:31:49,085
And I open the Christmas cards.

1529
01:31:49,253 --> 01:31:50,754
So, thank you so much

1530
01:31:50,922 --> 01:31:54,090
for the gratitude that you've
expressed to our families

1531
01:31:54,258 --> 01:31:56,593
and the letters and the cards

1532
01:31:56,761 --> 01:32:00,388
because they really do make
a difference to us as well.

1533
01:32:00,556 --> 01:32:01,890
So, thank you.