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It's good to be with you. and to answer your question how could i not speak up? this flight two years ago on the hudson has given me a greater voice about the things i've cared about my entire life. i feel a duty to do this, to keep on improving aviation safety and keep our passengers safe. this amendment is really a slap in the face of the family was the victims of the buffalo crash who have all worked as tireless, ardent advocates for the highest professional and safety standards. they've had some successes. they've gotten through congress a bill that would increase and improve pilot experie...

Worse hypo thermia and speaks the coordinated efforts of the flight crew to sit it down softly. i believe we've had a miraclen on the hudson. >> we did indeed have a miracle on the hudson. welcome chesley sullenberg. >> (applause) >> i'm still aamazed when i see the video and look back. are we safer now than two years ago? >> well, governor, good to be with you again. each time i see those images or hear the recordings it takes me back to that moment. yeah, we've made some progress. and my first officer that day and myself had a great are voice because of this attention and this event and we'v...

It and what is your job now? do you bring doug in and doug doesn't know how. >> right. i just at that time wanted to try to be as calm as i possibly could to keep him as calm as he possibly could and try to give him the confidence he needed to feel that he could fly that plane and get it down safely with his family. >> sure. now, as i understand it, doug white was taking his family back home. he had taken off from marco island in florida and actually there was another pilot flying the plane and he's in a great big king air which he owned. mr. white owned. but had only been in it one time. he o...

Pilot out of the way. joe who had passed was too big for them to move. so luckily, he had some pilot experience and i was able to talk to him and use some of the layman's terms and help him get through the situation and calm him down and get him to start flying it as if it was a cessna. bring it as basically -- as basic as i could. >> and what was extraordinary about it is the fact that here this guy has his family, his daughters are in the back seat so he's not only worried about himself but his family. you were able to talk him through it. had you ever flown that kind of airplane before? >> ...

Using. they say, "the crew did not perform in a way consistent with the training they received." they're saying that the pilot, marvin rennes lo was casual and relaxed and conversing with the first officer, rebecca shaw, who was startled and confused when the plane entered a stall. so, they did not hold back in a lot of ways and putting a lot of blame on those pilots. they opened that meeting, actually, saying we are not here to really impugn the character of these particular pie lots, not saying they are not good pepe people but they did not perform the way the training would have taught them...