sullenberger has a lot to say about air safety and he's with me now. welcome, captain sullenberger. a real hero. an honor to meet you. >> thank you. >> i remember it vividly. can't believe it's five years ago. what are your recollections as you look back on it? do you feel a hero? >> it's certainly one of those events where people remember where they were when they heard about it. and i understand the power of this story to inspire hope in people. and i've become the public face of it. while i don't consider my actions heroic, i think my crew did their job under very difficult circumstances. of course this was something that was unanticipated, for which we'd never specifically trained but we were able to very quickly take what we did know, adapt it and apply it in a new way to solve a problem we hadn't seen before. >> despite all the training that you must go through, when you're in that kind of dramatic emergency, what is the reality about what you go through? >> you have to realize that at this point in my career, 57, 58 years old, i'd been flying airplanes for 42 years.