Training tends to take over in these kinds of situations. Thats why you are forced to run drill after drill after drill. Although its always impressive to watch the results.
you both are wrong, just saw an interview at the time it happened and stated he flew for 30 years and has never had an engine fail due to bird strike in his 30 years of his career.....and that was at the time this happened
That is not entirly true. If you listen very closely, at around 02:05 you hear the co-captain raging and calling the air traffic controller an idiot. If the captain lost his cool, even for seconds, like his co-captain did, things might not have turned out so well. Kudos to everyone involved; captain, crew, the air traffic controller and of course the ferry boats who came to rescue very quickly (in another video you can see, that the first one has arrived about 4 minutes after the air plane landed in the Houdson River - which is a very good time).
RafaelMarcF22 Then you are just hearing things and don't know what you're talking about, because Sully's co-Pilot Jeff Skiles was busy going through the steps from the Emergency Manual desperately trying to get the engines started and NEVER got on the mic to say anything to or about Air Traffic Control! Jeff's mind and "attention" was on Nothing else! I don't know who you think you heard say that but it certainly wasn't the Co-Pilot!
Landing in the Hudson was am amazing feat. But I'll never understand how the plane didn't sink immediately from the weight of the massive balls of steel Capt. Sully had.
@@scottrackley4457they were all sitting down, but the sheer level of adrenaline that started pumping through has gotta be beyond anything we've ever felt
The pilot has obviously been dubbed a hero but I say that the air traffic controller was just as much a hero for remaining calm and being able to contact multiple potential sites at what had to be no more than a few seconds. Pilot called in emergency and the controller immediately knew exactly what to do and whom to call. How many of us can say that we could handle that situation with that much precision and accuracy?
The worst part is is the air traffic guy thought he lost the plane and everyone on board until he was being interviewed about the incident and his coworker told him everyone was alive.
actually, when you hear his testimony. He thought that he was lost the plane, and was like "I couldn't do anything to safe them" and then he recieved the call that the plane was safe in the river... was like his soul return to his body. (to clarify, until this event no one pull this manouver succesfully so for the controller when he heard "we are going to end up in the Hudson" was like "I have to sacrify the ship" and a death sentence) That's also why all this is so friking amazing...
That air traffic controller deserves a lot of credit for the quick response. Hard to stay as calm and collected in a situation like that. For once a news clip ends on some great observations.
True but credit also goes to the rapid response of all boats nearby. As soon as the plane hit every boat within sight began coming to the rescue. They are all heroes.
I am in no way religious - but miracles can still be used to describe amazing, extraordinary, and successful positive events - even to atheists. So many minutiae could have been insignificantly different and the outcome would have been catastrophic. No work of "God" but of an actual man in the sky. And an amazing ATC officer.
Randy Phillips credit also to the plane. Airbus fly by wire technology is the most advanced in the world and made the landing as easy as possible under the circumstances
@@ExCommie No doubt, and they all know it. Still, having 100s of lives ride on you, it takes a special breed. Personally, if I lost a full airliner due to an error, either in the cockpit or the tower, I would want to die with them.
@@pidgepodge2996 Air traffic controllers, I've heard, have a far higher burn-out and stress related illness rate than pilots. It definitely takes a special breed to be able to handle that job for long term. I've seen interviews where the controller they were talking to saw the blip disappear (as they ditched) and thought they'd lost the aircraft (with everyone aboard). He was in a supervisor's office doing a preliminary debrief when someone told them to turn on the tv. They did and saw footage of the plane in the river and boats getting the people off. The controller had been blaming himself (even though he did everything he could), and he said he felt that the weight had come off his shoulders.
@@TorontoJediMaster He also said it was worse after everything was over and he was free to go and they knew everyone survived as he went through the emotions and motions of blame and grief and everything associated with that.
They call this a crash, this is no crash, this is an intentional and direct landing, not an optimal landing by any means but the best landing given the situation.
I'd really like to shake the hand of that air traffic controller. I know there were many heroes that day, including Captain Sully, but I think that air traffic controller is to be commended for keeping his cool and thinking on his feet. He is why the response time was so fast.
Yeah. He kinda fell short in the movie. In the movie, it's like the entire ATC staff is just not doing anything, dispite being told that he is going down in the Hudson. It's not until the Captain of a Boat allerts authorities that they dispatch a helicopter. I guess it is more dramatic this way.
The ATC was horrified when he heard those words, because the expected outcome from trying to land that type of plane on a river would be that the plane would break apart and a lot of people would die. Had Capt. Sullenberger been any less skillful or the weather conditions worse, this would have been a tragedy. In fact, the ATC thought the worst for a while until he heard that the plane was in one piece and all souls on board were being rescued.
My husband was a passenger on flight 1549. Although it was 14 years ago, this audio still makes me so emotional. Each soul on that plane was truly blessed.
My sister in law was also on board. She still refuses to watch the movie. She just says, she's glad to have the pilots they had and such a quick response. People were surprisingly calm and cooperative. She's only flown twice since, and says she won't ever go it again.
The way Sully said “unable”, you can tell his mind was just spinning. He had ice running through those veins, all of them did. ATC man handled it with ease, shewwww.
@@amandacosta1566 Only alcholholics would be more distressed whilst ordering a beer in a restaurant is what Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave is saying. i'll just say that its a shit comparison and comment.
@ Absolutely not true. No alcohol in his system at all, same with the first officer. It was the huge flock of geese that destroyed both engines, the officers were found innocent of any crimes. No drugs either in case you are wondering.
@@iain075yeah I hope you figured out by now. Just like most places with car crashes. You gotta help by law. A plane, you have no choice in any state. Car crashes I think you don't have to stop at 10 states idk
I absolutely love how many ferries are around. They showed up to help asap and it makes me so happy to know it was so important for them to help and save lives.
Right?! I was wondering the same thing. Tower was very specific what flight number it was too. Not sure if the responder normally tracks all flights and was making record, or if neither knew what else to say. lol
I thought that was a little goofy. Like bro, its gonna be a big airbus floating or sinking in the Hudson by the tunnel. Now go start the van and get moving lol
lol i was wondering how important saying near the Lincoln even is... unless the plane sinks instantly your not gonna miss that from the vantage point of a helicopter lol
This was a perfect example of how well-trained individuals (in the cockpit, in Air Traffic Control and in rescue resources) all remained calm and professional (just as they were trained to do). That training and cool-headedness is why this story has a good ending.
The best part about this whole situation is that, unbidden, everyone from the Ferry to the tugboats immediately came to help the passengers so they wouldn't freeze to death in the river. I'm quite proud to be a New Yorker.
I notice this in big cities they might not all chat to one another on the train but they always step up quietly to help. In London we have had ppl risk their lives in knife attacks and on tube someone will always offer to carry the pram or suitcase etc
Did Patrick Harten ever get recognition for his assistance? I know it's his job as a ATC but honestly, everything went right for Cactus 1549. Not only did the pilots do their jobs with the greatest expertise but Patrick did his exceptionally well & went well over his job to help this flight. This is why everyone survived as even the ferry operators & scuba cops as Sully has stated ALL did their jobs. Those passengers got a second chance at life thanks to everybody. Also when u think about it, the plane itself cooperated perfectly even though Sully knew what he was trying to do. It could have broke apart or sank or exploded, anything was likely BUT it went remarkably well. I never get sick of this story knowing it ended well even though it has been 11 years.
Yeah, many factors like clear weather, calm atmosphere with no winds, and so many others helped it. Captain Sully and crew, ATC, ferrymen and so on , all acted professionally to help it through. Also, kudos to the passengers for not creating any drama resulting in panic. Quite an extraordinary feat, maybe never repeated again in our lifetime. Scenes like this make us proud to be a human, where coordination and cooperation are on the money.
Yes, he was recognized. He received an award from the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and he was interviewed for the _Mayday_ episode depicting this incident.
Don't forget the crew. You can hear them yelling stay down heads down in the background after Sully said brace for impact. It's because of them that everybody got out of the plane so fast.
@@XiaoP76 I remember that the woman flight attendant in the rear section of the plane got a pretty serious leg injury when the plane hit the water (those in the rear got the worst of the impact), but she still managed to keep doing her job.
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Ike, if you were driving down the interstate, your engine blew, your tires melted and the roadway collapsed beneath you and you still managed to stop your car and not hit anyone else, you WOULD be responsible for saving the lives of everyone in your car..... not that I imagine for a minute you could think that fast.
This is still so amazing. Everyone did their job well that day, but especially the pilot. He is definitely a hero, no one could ever doubt that. He had ONE chance to make that landing, and he had to do it just right. Other pilots have tried to make water landings before, and if you don't do it right, the plane will break apart and probably kill everyone on board. But Captain Sullenberger managed to do it and EVERYONE survived. How often do you hear that? A plane loses all its engine power but the pilot still gets the plane down in one piece and everyone survives?! This guy has to be the best pilot in the world. I really hope he trained other pilots before he retired!
_"This guy has to be the best pilot in the world"_ No. Every pilot is trained for this situation. The credit here goes to the Airbus engineers. Try to do that with a Boeing and you will end up drowned, *IF* you don't blow up before... _"Other pilots have tried to make water landings before"_ ...with Boeings. -.-
You know, blessed is this mans quick experienced thinking abilities. I have fear of flying and have only done it once. With Sully being my pilot, I think it's safe to say I'll be in safe hands. I'll go fly if he's my pilot.
Well not as good, Sully was amazing in dealing with the situation, because remember he was one of the ones in danger too, but he didn't let the adrenaline get to him, he dealt with the situation not just professionally, but with inhuman levels of calm and mental preparedness for what was a very sudden freak accident. Not many people can manage that. The air traffic controller was every bit as important in saving all those people as Sully though.
I watched the movie “Sully” about this event and it made me cry. The calmness and skill of the captain and his crew, the work off the controller, the rescue boats, firemen, divers and all the people on the plane. It’s a god damn miracle! Everyone worked together! If panic would have taken over a lot of life’s would have been lost. I’m a nurse, and in emergencies we work together as a team, if everyone is doing what they are trained for, miracles happen. It’s a feeling I just can’t explain. Got deeply touched by the movie.
One of the many things that gets me about this is how every craft on the Hudson that could immediately deployed without hesitation. Humans are basically good in these emergency situations, but New Yorkers are the best. Say what you want about it being impersonal and unfriendly; when it matters, New York always rises to the occasion.
Under the federal law of US, CVR recordings can’t be made public. Only a portion of the transcripts and recordings will be made during public hearing. www.ntsb.gov/news/Pages/cvr_fdr.aspx
On the documentary they play a lot of the cockpit recordings and the rest of it is the overvoice explaining what the pilot and copilot were doing. The copilot, who didn't get as much recognition for his actions did an amazing job, he was going through the checklist trying to restore power to the engines (or at least one to give them enough power to maintain altitude to get to a runway). Other pilots reflecting on his actions were shocked that he made it through the checklist as fast as he did, he was only 2-3 steps away from securing the plane (closing the cabin air valves)for a ditching (water landing). He obviously didn't get to that point, that's why the plane immediately began to sink. If he'd had 2 more minutes before touchdown the plane wouldn't have flooded. The Airbus is designed to not sink if still intact and Cabin Air Valves are closed.
ATC was a star. So damn professional and calm. Especially how he kept working even after the plane was down. Just like that kinda stuff happens once a week and always on his shift. When you've depended on a person on the other end of a radio you really come to respect the good ones. He did an amazing job.
what amazes me is the level of cooperation and professional competency that was achieved by everybody involved under such stressful circumstances. From the air traffic controller to the emergency response teams to the flight crew itself, thee was no panic or rushed thinking- just careful execution. We really passed the test on this one
Sully, Jeff Skiles, ATC, cabin crew, ferry captains, first responders of FDNY and NYPD, all came together and did the job. Top level of service and duty, brilliance.
True story: thirty-five years ago my husband was on a Cessna with his pilot friend and their engine conked out and the pilot couldn't restart it. They made an emergency landing in a cornfield. They had to hike to a farmhouse to call for help, then get a ride to an airport to get a flight back home. Later that night in bed, just before we fell asleep, I idly asked, "So where did you guys land when you were out today?" He named a small town in the middle of nowhere, and I said, "I didn't know they had an airport there." He said, "They don't."
Yeah, every single person was like "is this really happening?" and froze up. Wasn't until the flight attendants started yelling "brace, brace, brace! Heads down, stay down!" that everyone snapped out of it. I would have been the same.
Sully is a hero. No one was injured and he knew what he could and couldn’t do in that situation and said no matter what they were going into the Hudson.
Every single one of the men involved had ice water flowing through their veins. Not one of them panicked. Its almost like they were ordering ice cream.
I know! I think they are all vigorously and repeatedly trained to remain calm. I also think that they all know what can happen without having to say it. Plus, it would be a waste of precious time to panic. Personally, I would have lost my shit, figuratively and literally.....
Captain Sully, balls of steel and professionalism like no other. LaGuardia Tower OWNING his post! Giving recommendations, clearing runways for miles, and then commanding rescue crew direction. Both individuals showcasing what skill, experience, and leadership look like. Unreal.
That “unable” always gives me chills. My father is a pilot and I was still a kid when this happened but I remember him watching this on TV, and then frantically googling until he could email (or Facebook or something, don’t remember) the guy because he felt he had to personally tell him how incredible his piloting skills were and how admirable it was he walked that whole thing twice before letting rescuers take him. (I’m fairly sure they spoke briefly, like ten years ago, which is kinda cool, I should ask him. My father super rarely is that excited or inspired about anything or anyone so it really stood out to me. We both have Asperger’s, btw, incase you’re thinking that sounds weird, yeah we’ve got interesting brains lol. His special interests are airplanes and space. Mine are very much not. Conversation was difficult growing up.) That’s the part that always gets me the most, that after an emergency of that caliber, and I’m sure while overflowing with adrenaline, he walked up and down that aisle _twice_ checking every single seat. I remember my father saying something like “see kid, when was 17 getting my license I thought pilots were just supposed to fly the plane, and we are, but that’s secondary to getting everyone to their destination safely. That’s the top priority. That man is a pilot.” Yet I was still pretty annoyed by him always talking about airplanes and airplane engines and airplane upgrades and WWII planes, etc., etc., etc. Thought it was dumb, hated he didn’t want to talk about much else. And here I am 13 years later with a pilot-themed tattoo for him, happily watching a bunch of airplane documentaries on my own time, lmao
Beautiful story, thanks for sharing. You're lucky you have your dad, I lost my dad seven years back and it still hurts me. He was my best friend! Always spend time with your loved ones. This incident .makes me proud, everyone acted so professionally and helped without any hesitation. Hats off to such fine individuals. Remarkable feat the likes which we may never see again in our lifetime.
Unbelievable and still to this day - what an incredible story and outcome. Sully is not the only hero - but the controller and everyone involved on the communications and response were prompt and diligent and calm - - and no human casualties in the end - incredible example of competent / flawless execution - - they're all heros - - thank you for your service and support.
it's amazing what they've all achieved, hats off, every single piece of the story is unforgetable and i totally love how calm and composed the controller stays during handling the emergency and after it's clear the plane crashed
I love how people start speaking like they're talking to a toddler when it's an emergency. (The last audio.) Super clear, super enunciated, super intense. It's the, "You understand? I'm not going to say it again," "toddler tone". It just cuts through somehow. I love how we instinctively understand the "not messing around" tone. It's endearing, really, and incredibly important. Very special when people pull together in these critical moments. Glad there was such a great outcome for this incident! Great teamwork! 👏🙏💫
So many people give credit to the ferries that showed up, but not enough credit is given to the people behind the wheels of those who could get there so quickly and be so agile in maneuvering close together. That's massive skill right there.
Hats off to the controller, and all controllers! Sully was awesome, and had 155 souls on his shoulders, the controller had those 155 PLUS all the souls on other aircraft on his shoulders! Incredible work in the face of such danger...
Every time I come back to listen to this again it gives me chills. Sully is definitely the pilot you hope you have in any kind of urgent situation. God bless all pilots for the crap they deal with all the time and for being brave enough to take on that responsibility! 👏
Can't believe how calm he is. Really puts things into perspective in regards to everyday problems we all face and we immediately lose our shit, panic and become flustered over the slightest thing.
@@Hester-l6k yes but the a320 has a glide ratio of around 17, and that’s at cruising speed. They literally just took off, were facing upward, heading into the wind, and were going way too slow to be stable beyond the pilots experience and know-how.
The engines didn't explode. They had multiple failures due to bird strike into the turbine. All planes are always dropping out of the sky and quickly every single day. You can still glide for quite a while and he could have made LaGuardia if the stars aligned without incident. However, he deemed it too risky and he was likely correct.
Probably the coolest part of this whole thing is the air traffic controller. Stayed super calm, gave the pilot every resource he could and then when he'd lost contact he metaphorically grabbed everybody by the collar and started organising rescue services. What a guy, I'd love buy him a beer.
Amazing air traffic controller. I listed to his emotional explanation of the event and hope he realises how admired he is by people like me for his bravery.
air traffic controller is one of the most stressful jobs on the planet WITHOUT imminent disaster facing you head on. This guy deserves a lot of credit! He did everything in his power to get him a runway. No panic.
The composure these people displayed is absolutely amazing. From the short, to-the-point responses and conversations of Captain Sullenberger and his First Officer Skiles to the absolutely incredible multitasking and fast response of the Air Traffic Controller Patrick Harten, together with the rest of the crew, the responses of emergency teams and compliance and calmness of the passengers, these people managed to save over 150 lives in what was likely to be a disaster. It is clear all of these people knew their jobs, and knew them well. Even though FO Skiles was "fresh out of the Academy", so to speak, he communicated with CPT. Sullenberger flawlessly and efficiently. They established their roles immediately after the collision (the callouts of Sullenberger's "My Aircraft", to Skiles's response "Your Aircraft") and worked in tandem to prevent what, at the time, seemed like a surefire catastrophe. The skill, teamwork and composure of all those involved is awe-inspiring. It just shows what we, as a people, are truly capable of.
All std but they did it by the book. One reason the cockpit transmissions are short is the fact they they are running checklists in the cockpit the whole time. The "I've got it" is normal for the Capt to take over in an emergency.
@@Syclone0044 The fuel of a plane is stored in its wings, kerosin is a lot less dense than water and would therefor provide buoyancy that would keep the plane afloat. At least for a little time that was thankfully enough to get everybody out of the plane.
ATC: "What do you need to land?" Sully: "A river, a tough airplane, and a bunch of ferries close-by and a helicopter with divers to get all the passengers off the wings, slides and rafts and out of the almost freezing water." And so it happened.
At 1:28 there are SEVEN ferries at the scene, plus three other smaller boats, two of which appear to be RIBs. Plus a helicopter. A wonderful, quick response from all involved. Just amazing !
I'm not from the US but I have to applaud and admire the nerves of steel the ATC, the crew of US Airways 1549 and the first responders that day. They all did their job like true professionals and saved everybody on the aircraft. My hat's off for every single one of the people involved that day.
How beautiful to see people coming together to help out in the situation. All those boats aren't emergency services but react immediatley to get the people to safety! Brings a tear to my eye :)
The captain wasn't trained for water landing. He knows that if he continued to go to the nearest airport, no one will survive because they will hit all the buildings so the best way was to land in river and the coast guard and the boat who roaming on the river responded immediately. Salute to the captain and all staff who did their jobs.
It's almost the 12th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson. I still can't believe its been this long already. Thank you, Sully, and Thank you, Jeff. You saved everyone. 🛩