When US Airways Flight 1549 loses engine power moments after leaving LaGuardia, there's only one option: an emergency landing on the Hudson. #airdisasters #planecrash From: AIR DISASTERS: Getting Out Alive bit.ly/1aNLXYq
Nor the flight crew. Those ladies kept their calm and giving instructions to their passengers. Capt. Sully also was the last person off the plane. He insisted on wading through that icy cold water in the cabin checking to see if anyone hadn't gotten out.
Everything came together on this one. Not just the pilots. The people who ran to the door and opened it. Nobody ran over each other, knocking each other out. Just amazing.
Sorry there was just only one Person flyn the plane. The People you are thinking are awesome was only able to do so cuz of the pilot. If the Pilot fucked up there would be NO ONE TO DO ANY THING OTHER THAN DIE.
The pilot himself gave credit to his crew as well. It was a team effort, with everyone doing their part. Yes, the pilot executed a perfect water landing, but what if he had collided with one of the boats on the river? What if he hadn't had the necessary time to avoid clipping the George Washington Bridge? Those two events were out of his control.
I’m pregnant with my first baby, a son. We are naming him Sullivan, but Sully will be his nickname. Chosen only because of this amazing story, who better to be named after than a true hero!
*These passengers survived because their Captain was a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot. Those guys are trained to perfection. They'd rather die than lose their plane. Thank you Captain Sully for your service! God bless you and your family.*
Plus, as a hobby he liked to fly glider planes. So that gave him an additional skill set. He and Skyles were amazing. The passengers survived because of them.
@silverhawkflash There have been many military officers who've had training and experience in both the Navy and the Air Force. In fact there is the Naval Air Force, and this may've been where the captain of that flight had his background. He was an Air Force fighter pilot, but he also knew just what to do in a situation involving an impact in the water. It's always better for a pilot to have both Air Force and Navy training, considering there always being the possibility of an aircraft crashing into the ocean or a lake or river
I’ve been in an “Mayday” landing - 2004, Air Canada, Toronto to Manchester, NH. 18 passengers, no flight attendant (he did the safety bit and then became the copilot). It was the same sense of having 17 new best friends. Hope you never need to know, but you get 12 minutes of O2 when they drop the masks. If the plane is full of smoke that’s not going to do it. We used any bottled water we had and wet scarfs, etc. there was no panic. It was at night and seeing that one brightly lit runway made it very real, especially when we realized the number of lights that were actually emergency vehicles that all pull in behind you down the runway like a parade. I never found out what went wrong and was burning - they had us off and away from the plane in seconds. Yes. I still fly. No. Not Air Canada.
It's like the people on United flight 93. They were all strangers but after hearing what happened to the other planes and what the possible intended target was for their plane they banded together knowing they most likely wouldn't make it out alive but they got together and tried to do what they could to prevent their plane from reaching its intended target..
They put this plane in the museum in charlotte NC, i went there when i was 9, everyone was bored and wanted to go home, the entire time a documentary was playing on a mini TV nearby and i learned so much that day!
These pilots were awarded, right? Money, medals, media? Because your plane turned into a boat and everybody was perfectly fine. That’s one hell of a line on a resumé.
Hell yea when for now on ill contract those pilots thet should get alot of money even they should be presidents for saving 100 and something life wow amazing
he had a 50 second window where if acted immediately to turn back would have easily madeit to the airport, his old ass brain took too long and now the airline is shitting him up for wrecking a planes that should be at the airport
In all seriousness, the reason why they survived was that the captain did air gliding in his free time so he knew how to glide the plane without engines resulting in a safe landing.
They had what they call buoyancy provided by the VOLUME of the front cabin which DISPLACED the water and lifted up the nose. The pilot did fine as many others did, but he was lucky to have that buoyancy in front to lift him up and stop the plane from flipping over or digging down into the water
It's a great example of staying calm and not allowing yourself to panic. Even if I knew what was going to happen, I still would have hard time staying in control of my actions. The movie Sully showed how working together can save your life.
Also a lot of respect to the engineers at Airbus for implementing fly by wire as first commercial airliner manufacturer in the A320 and thus enabling full envelope protection.
Actually, the full envelope protection engineered into the A320's control algorithm prevented Capt, Sullenburger from getting the aircraft to the absolute minimum speed, which would have been the stall speed at the configuration they had, prior to impact. Ironic, but true!
Maybe I am wrong, but in a swept wing design as found in most airliners it is pretty hard to maintain control over the aircraft once it reached its stall speed, not to mention the tendency to tip stall and then roll as an effect of it. Thus at low altitude its a point of no return/recovery. The Envelope Protection/Alpha Protection kicks in and prevents the pilot from making a bad situation even worse by misjudging the height or speed above the water. In this situation it was a small compromise to impact at α-prot while its crucial to maintaining full responsiveness over all control surfaces, allowing for a stable approach.
While I respect Capt. Sully for his excellent flying feat I do not consider his effort an act of heroism or superman type of performance. Any commercial airline pilot with the proper training and experience would have done the same thing. Please stop overpraising this guy, it's just a little bit too much.
Captain 👨🏽✈️ “SULLY” is a hero for saving all those people!! I don’t care 🤷🏾♂️ what anyone has to say about him... all those people got to go home to there families, thanks to him!! JUST AMAZING 😉
Oh no! They lost their luggage! It’s as if they are required to leave all baggage behind in an emergency situation to make the evacuation safer and faster!
Fliqs Travis ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? You care about luggage at a time like this? I think your life is more important than your brand new Nokia. Also the plane was probably brought to shore
I drove Uber in Charlotte and I picked up one of those passengers just last year. He still has PTSD from that incident. The crazy thing is that he told me he jumped from a plane 7 years later. He’s still good friends with the pilot as well. I couldn’t believe he was up there.
I can imagine that he had PTSD after being in that incident. But imagine a passenger who was a survivor of, for example, that United airlines crash landing about 20 years ago where the plane landed on the wrong angle and the aircraft partially split in two while half of the aircraft burst into flames with most of those passengers perishing while the other half had some survivors although many of them badly injured with serious burns. Imagine the PTSD if one of those survivors. As for the ones who did die, I just hope it was instant with no agony or suffering. And I think it was because if you're in the center of a big explosion, it's usually instantaneous. To me, dying in an suffering agonizing way is much scarier than death itself
@Peselo statistics huh? The sense of helplessness of an aircraft is nowhere near the grip you belive you have on a car. Statistics will never fill the gap of psychological vulnerability
I would like to thank the pilots of this plane for their quick thinking, determination, calm demeanour and resilience in saving all of the passengers on board this flight. However I would also like to draw attention to and thank captain Kevin Sullivan of the flight QF72 who saved the lives of 315 people when the planes autopilot went haywire and tried to send them into the ocean off the coast of Australia via a nosedive. He received no recognition for his actions.
its not as easy as it looks like ditch like that in the water. if the water is choppy that can greatly effect the outcome of the landing. but yes great flying had a part in this miracle
My dad is a construction worker in Manhattan and he was driving home on the West Side Highway that day. He saw that flight go by and then into the river. He was in the city during 9/11 as well and was worried that it was another attempt. We are all happy everyone survived this crazy ordeal!
These guys are hero's, it's a shame they were treated so badly. I show the trailer of this to my driver ed classes not because they are going to be pilots but to show students how someone can make good, sound decisions under intense amount of pressure, with little or no options, blocking out all distractions, and manage to pick the best option to avoid tragic results.
this video didn't mention this but there were injuries. mostly minor stuff like bruises but one flight attendant suffered a severe laceration on her leg that resulted in significant blood loss.
"75 million dollar plane" is a phrase that doesn't even deserve to be uttered in this heroic story. All that matters is that the heroic actions of pilot, copilot, cabin crew and NYC boats who helped with the evacuation resulted in a loss of ZERO lives. The fact that money even enters this video is pure corporate American greed. Poor Sully for having to go through trial to defend his actions of saving everyone's lives because a big corporate lost an expensive toy.
The movie: Sully with Tom Hanks was gripping viewing. Absolutely amazing. Sully's timing and precision was all due to his expertise landing aircrafts in the navy. 👏👏👏
Imagine just chilling on the ferry making your way to work and then you’re suddenly diverted to a rescue mission because a plane landed in the river beside you
It happened in early afternoon so not much commuter activity. Ferries were just chilling docked waiting for end of day rush hour to commence. Meant no ferries hit by the plane, and ferries were able to come and pick up passengers off the wings.
Me and my parents we’re actually in Charlotte after this happened and Captain Sully was actually staying in the same hotel. My dad met him and he said he was an amazing man.
@@hamstersarefurry8705 1they almost killed people 2they did not fuckin see a plane engine they can even run away before i get to them and im quiet AF and that engine can make you deaf by getting close to it 3they are suicide birds
Every aviator has this incident in their head permanently. No pilot or crew member can forget the uneventful takeoff, and the horrifying sight of both engines not spinning. The pilots weren’t trained for this type of emergency, but by a miracle they made it out alive.
Movies are not reality. It was based on a true story and Eastwood did his best to recreate the event, but it is still a movie which is a work of fiction.
Shoutout to the many rescuers that came, especially the first ones at the scene - ferrys and boats, controlled by their highly skilled captains and crews, which managed to maneuver in close to the sinking plane without hitting or damaging it, recovering many people and saving their lives. Never forget this day, the day the skills and experience of a few saved the lives of many.
The pilot and his copilot are heroes as no one died in this shocking accent, all are real surviver's of an air crash.. Way to go Sully Sullenberger God watched over you that day.
Yeah... god was totally watching and none of the people involved in that crash including birds were able to think for themselves because god was controlling it, right?
Whenever I see the videos and the Movie, ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, it always brings me back to when an AWACS taking off at Elmendorf AFB (Alaska),had a devastating bird strike here in 1995. Everyone died on the plane, and everyone who were here will never forget. It always amazes me how Captain Sully and crew were so calm and professional. Thanks for your awesome videos!
Pilots did save the passengers, but the fairy boats picked up the passengers from the wings of the airplane, and the lifeboats were also part of the miracle
I worked for US Air when that happened. I remember getting off the elevator at the airport parking garage and someone from another carrier asking me about it. I had no idea it had happened.
@@kevingunnery5470 in that movie if I remember true 2 other experienced pilots tried to approach to any airport in the same situation and it took them over 17 attempts
The miracle was that the captain made the choice to go into the Hudson rather than try to make it to an airport and risk their lives if they couldn't make it. That I believe was the tough decision where this captain's experience shined. Setting a plane down on a smooth body of water I wouldn't call challenging for an experienced pilot.
Yes because it is routinely trained for; 'setting a plane down on a smooth body of water'...with no engine power and 155 souls on board from 2800 feet. Yeah I wouldn't call that challenging either...lol
I saw the Tom Hanks film about this crash landing last night, and I rate it a 7 out of 10. The part where the cabin attendants shout in unison: "Heads down, stay down, brace, brace, brace," really gave me the heebie-jeepies. There were a lot of things the film didn't have time to touch on. For example, no mention was made of the fact that the captain was an experienced glider pilot. Apparently this was part of the reason he was able to execute a perfect crash landing in the water. Supposedly most pilots that attempted this maneuver in a simulator ended up crashing the airplane. A lot of factors combined to give this story a happy ending, such as clearing the George Washington Bridge, and not colliding with any of the boats on the river. Amazingly, some of the passengers on this flight boarded other planes later in the day to continue on with their travel plans. Yikes, talk about raw courage. Had I been on that plane, I don't think I would have gotten on another aircraft again... ever... Period! Lol.
The MAJOR problem with the brace position is in most crashes the row of seats in front of you collapses and pins your legs. If your "braced" to far forward in theory the collapsing row could trap you.
There were dogs and cats too. But the owners were paid good money to shut up. The whites needed and wanted greatly... wanted a white hero after the crooked Bush and Cheney Great Recession and that idiotic Iraq Invasion white produced disasters for all USA taxpayers to pay for. Then they lost the 2008 election to... A half black.. What a shame for white USA men.. By almost a landslide a black was elected president. Doomsday for white USA men. A big shame for the USA white men. Even most women voted for Obama. What a freaking shame.. They desperately needed a white hero in sad January 2009. And they got it. If a black captain did that ditching, he will be called a lucky guy only, never a hero by the white controlled media. In May 24, 1988 TACA 110 hero captain was not mentioned on USA news at all. Why?? Due he was Latino, not totally white. First time ever an airliner is landed with no engines outside an airport-with no injuries and airplane can be used again. First time ever for that. Not mentioned at all until 2013 in youtube. Im a CFI of aerobatics and 6 kinds of EFATO landings and Upset Pilot Training. Many times Sully said he just did his well paid for job- and he was not a hero.
@@v12ts.gaming The one casualty comes from a flight attendant jumping from the plane when it was a few seconds away from landing. She would've survived too if she didn't jump
@Mickey Winters it's called a miracle because of how impossible it seems. Everyone still congratulates the captain and copilot. They landed the plane. And what's this "nobody would ever die if religion existed" because that's not how it works.
Well the Hudson river was the best place to crash, after all with the amount on boats on the river it was never going to take long for one to get to the plane
The real miracle is that, with the number of boats on the river, as you point out, he didn't end up colliding with one of them. That would have proven disastrous!
I think the position that has you resting your head and arms against the seat in front would be good as you wouldn't bang into anything. You have a good chance of surviving that. But the one where you put your head by your knees... all that would happen is that your whole body weight would jackhammer your head and neck into the seat in front and kill you instantly.
Pilot : Brace for impact!!!!😱😱 Passenger : What?? Me : BRACE!!!!!!! Also Me : DUDE BRACE ALREADY!!! Passenger : WHAT IS BRACE?!?! Me : IT MEANS PUT YOUR HEA- Passenger : OK MATE! Also Passenger : what should i do again? 10 second later Passenger : wait, why is everything white and all people disappear? Also why do i hear a holy voice? Edit : *make this 1k friend.*