captain cool himself chesley sullllenberger, sully!y! i donon t think t there is anybody inin the w whorld who dodoesn t knowow who sully is.s. i receceived a a call frorom presidident of thehe united sta president george w. bush to congratulate me. and hour and a half after that i got a call from president-elect obama. so we were all off to the inauguration. just that next monday. good evening. tonight joining us for another special hour, the captain and crew of us airways flight 1549. i feel like i d been chosen by circumsmstance. i remembeber in the v very beginning,g, we got a fax. itit was like e a hand-w-writte. and it j just said america ad a a wiwin. thank yoyou. anand that came throrough on oux machine. i have no idea who it was from or how they got our fax number. mail was being delivered to our house. our mailman would come at night, and he would put those bins that
ththis was onene good newsws st. why is this called miracle on the hudson ? there are a few different reasons. one is that governor patterson of new york at time essentially came up with this term. we ve had a miracle on 34th street. i believe now we ve had a miracle on the hudson. the real reason is that this was truly a miracle. it s the most successful ditching of an aircraft of all time. you could not write this storory better. > i tooook ouout a busisines from my wallet and jusust t scririptabled a rereally fast n and i sasaid to my momom and my sister, i love e yoyou. because i thought in the worst case does happen and the plane crashes and disintegrates, at least i wanted them to know i was thinking about them in those last few seconds.
through ththe airplalane twiwic. i was at such a a state ofof st, i didndn t trustst my eyes and . i wewent thrhrough the airplpla lolooking downwn every rowow of. our air flight a attendant got pretty impatient with me as our airplane was taking on water, and said when i was at the back the second t time shouteted at we need to get off this airport right now. and i said i m coming, and i took one more look when i walked back up. joining us for another special hour, the captain and crew of us airways flight 1549. i don t think there is anybody in the world who doesn t know w who sulully is. > this guy y sully, he s a h my family and i know this event was two parts, the trauma of that flight itself. captain cool himself. sully sullenberger. known as sully. sully himself. and then the stress of this intense worldwide attention and media coverage in the aftermath. thank you very much.
jim acosta. i ll see you again next weekend. good night. mar-a-lago. welcome to the whole story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a plane collided with a smaller aircraft. five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about utah miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s la guardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers on board and 5 crew members, including the pilot, chap tain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff 2 plane collided with a flock of geese.